To remove the toy baby feeding bottle from my dd's new doll bath and feeding set?

[Springfleurs]

I was brought up to think that breast feeding was a strange and rather disgusting thing to do.

Luckily managed to overcome this myself and b/f both dc for 5 months and 14 months respectively.

Took dd to a toy shop today and she chose a doll bath and feeding set. Unpacked it for her when we got in and there is a feeding bottle in there. I know it might seem a bit precious but it irritated me slightly, as though it was a mandatory piece of equipment for all babies/dolls.

Or

I am taking it all rather too seriously?

was the set for the 14 month old? the 14 month old picked out the doll bath and feeding set?

vlc, i don't understand you post - at all. i understand your having a go (so to speak) but i am not entirely sure why. could you explain.

for i too only speak one language - ergo my jibe at multilingual posturing doesn't equate with your jibe at my huge cock.

i also don't understand how VH is confusing anything, but rather adding to the mix that the information a child recieved is more than a dolls bottle. ( thats how i read it)

i can't say i have ever met someone determined to make a child pretend feed in any particular way.

but if i should ever come across such a person, i agree with you that it would be very odd behaviour indeed.

yes, smash the bottle, remove the dummy, check the clothing is all organic Free Trade cotton and replace any disposable nappies with a re-usable one.

scottishmummy- that was a personal attack. i haven't called you names. there really was no need for that.

CUSTY you said "jesus shit.this is 'my dick is bigger than your dick' alpha mummy supreme.
look how many languages i can speak".

lordy.

oh was thast was a fond felicitation or a sly dig?

lordy as you'd say custardo

you give it but cry if you get some back.you were pretty acerbic chucking your alpha mummy about

I'm not having a go Custardo, (why would I have a go at you? I'm bewildered at that) I responded to your post. I read it that you were accusing both Scottishmummy and me of equating speaking languages with being superior. So I was keen to ensure you understood that I am in fact monolingual, and therfore could not possibly consider myself anything but inferior, by your own innovative definition.

I must have misunderstood you, I see. What did you mean exactly?

Actually it seemed to me that SM and I were calling a merry truce at that point, to my pleasure.

no, i can take it do - but i didn't actually call you a dick scottishmummy - whatever way you dress it up (and in whatever language) i never said that you were a dick.

i used a metaphore for the posturing.

its quite different

ah!just as i used an allegory then.so no harm done.lets not get in a fankle since you said dick 1st

So this is why no one is answering my "how do you say hello when you kep coming and going thread in chat?" ........Typical!

vlc - why would i have a bigger dick? my reference was to the peacock like posturing.

i havent purported to be the alphamummy to which i refer, so i don't understand your reference?

and your not having a go clearly.

custy,the alphamummy refernce is yours.you said it

no scottishmummy, lets.

i said "This is 'my dick is bigger than your dick' alpha mummy supreme

you called me a dick

thats not an allegory.

it was a personal attack.

i didn't call you a dick

'i havent purported to be the alphamummy to which i refer'

which i refer

yes i know i said it.

Will I get shot if I ask how did a thread about removing a bottle from a dolls setget to dicks and languages and alpha mummy's

I'm not having any dick, there are too many dicks in these posts.

ah to whose mythical and fictional dick were you refering when adressing VlM and i?

any ole dick or some dick come lately

anyhoo all this talk of dicks and multiingualism and i am quite sophoric

nighty night

disgraceful

What does sophoric mean? It sounds like a type of singer or a drug?

Mhamai, see, it's like this. Scottishmummy used a typo in her reference to me so I called her "spanishmummy" in jest. She responded jovially (I think) with a sentence in Spanish. I for my part dashed off to google a translation, and continued the dialogue with my one and only sentence of Chichewa, which referenced, I hope, her kind invitation to me. At least, it has "chicken house" in it, I am led to believe. Could be wrong there...

Custardo then told us we were Alphamummy peacocks who postured with our big dicks? something like that.

And now she's feeling dreadfully attacked.

Are you with us now?

Lordy you guys stayed up late!

Here's the baby
and here's its bottle

cos babies need bottles

and as for the bottle could be for ebm, water... rubbish! And people think the OP is overthinking things!
The bottle is for formula. Cos babies need bottles and formula, don't they?

Oh...it turned into bitching, how sad.

JodieO Is the only sensible post on this page! And is IS the normalisation of bottles that is the issue, nobody is condemming those that bottlefeed, which is why it is all the more insane that this thread has turned into such a bitch fight! Surely there is no argument? Or do people now actually not accept that breast feeding should be the default and bottles/ff a useful invention to have as a backup in case of problems? Or later on return to work, or occasionally for someone else to feed, either way that is still not the 'default way to feed a baby', surely people do know that? That is not the case with any of the other baby paraphinalia thta comes with this god awful sounding doll! Although I did enjoy not owning a baby bath with dd and having a bath together every evening for the first few months

Actually, my post there makes it sound like I am against ff through choice, and while I would never do that, it is down to the mother, but still, it should not be the normalised default.

This of course could be an interesting debate on othering and choice and emotions, and evolution, and cyborgs...