to think this is going to far with the breastfeeding!

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thebreastmilkbaby.com/ watch the demonstration of the baby doll!!

dons hard hat ready for a pasting

I think this is a little to far. Opinions??

And I'd bet the farm that if your little girl lifted her top and started pretending to breastfeed in public you'd quietly ask her to stop.

Oh, she's done that a few times and it hasn't occurred to me to ask her quietly to stop. Why would it?

Oh, and bristols (appropriate name!) I wouldn't say this is teaching them (I wouldn't buy the ridiculous toy) to be mums. I should think boys do this too. But simply that small children mimic what their caregivers do frequently. They play and learn by testing it out (washing up etc, wish mine would hang the washing out...) and repeating and making games of it.

Alistair. That's hilarious

I think what Wafflepuss said articulates it better than my dyslexic self could. Or adds to or something like that

Well, I think it's fine, and not too far at all, but I wouldn't bother with the flowery felt boobs!

And goingmadinthecountry, I love American Girl! Thankfully for my bank balance I didn't have DD with me when I went in there!

Actually, I think it's an interesting idea. Teaches them to tilt baby towards the chest and to sit patiently, also shows the baby's mouth working away properly. I don't have a problem with it as such, no more than I have with any plastic toy dressed in pink.

My dds were both baffled by the bottles that came with their baby dolls,as they'd never had one,they do sometimes feed their dolls from a cup,other than that they play bf them. They would love that doll...

I think the manufacturers probably haven't realised that little boys would try to do the bf thing with this doll as well, so unisex colours might be a nice idea.

Think the apron thing is unnecessary but do think it's nice that a manufacturer has gone to the trouble to make a doll that isn't automatically ff.

mybaby think ds4 is beginning to wonder what his nipples are for. I was changing him one day and he asked "What are these?" I told him they were nipples. To which he said "I LOVE my nipples!" ( He's 2)

YANBU

I breastfed both of mine, but think this is odd. The top with the nipples is what I'm not keen on.

My DD also bfeeds a lot of her toys, and sometimes gets me to tandem feed her + (toy) rabbit or teddy (only at home, luckily). She has also decided which breast will be hers and which the new baby's when DC2 arrives.

It would never occur to me to stop her if she was doing it () in public, whether she was pulling her top up or not

Rotflmao. That is so hilarious. Only I can't see the point of bothering with a special doll, especially one that costs $99. Are they having a laugh?

DD nurses her entire collection of over 50 dolls and stuffed toys. Obviously she pulls her top up to do it. She also walks round pretending to be pregnant with a cushion stuffed up her shirt. The other day she did have her friends round having a tea party and they all had cups of tea while their babies had booby milk. (Cold tea, obviously, so the babies didn't get burnt... good observation skills these kids have.)

At least there isn't a bosom burqa bebe au lait thing for children to wrap around themselves in shame.

What a marketing ploy, $99 for a bf doll , when any doll can be bf. Nothing wrong with the doll except the price

I have no problem with the doll, but I think children have a lot better imagination that designers give them credit for. My dns find these type of dolls curious, but then go back to their stuffed animals, who they breastfeed, spoonfeed, burp, and change 'nappies' etc. I would not be buying anything like that for them or my dc.

This is not the world's first breastfeeding doll! All our dollies and teddy bears were breastfed!

I thought the video was lovely, although the little girl does look shy.

Its nice to have an alternative to dolls that come with a bottle (I suspect no-one takes the time to explain to children that it might be expressed milk?) and if it was cheaper and available in the UK then I might buy it for DS (2.5) - I think he'd give it a go, especially as he's asked a few times recently if 'daddy do milkies tonight?'

My only reaction was to cry with laughter. And then at the price. I wouldn't buy it but it's certainly not offensive.