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?

I think that they should mnake tiny bras with boobs printed on them and little plastic nipples stuck to them and then the child can pretend top breastfeed in a more natural way when Baby Annabelle is wailing!

This is a joke right?

MadameCastafiore That would be further commercialisation of something that does not need to be part of a capitalist economy, nothing is needed to feed a baby other than a mothers body, unless a choice is made to do so, that choice should be made as an informed decision, not because it is seen as the normal thing to do.

with regard to the OP ( i've just skimmed most of the thread.)

well you could remove the bottle, or not. DD had a similar set and chose to breastfeed
and actually she was only breastfed for the first little while ( until my boobs failed me yet again). anyway your bound to have the question.. " is this how you feed babies?" from your dd.. so you can just say well I breastfed you .. and give a nice little explination. or tel her some mummies put their milk in bottles when they need to go to work etc.

I haven't read all the posts but I think having a bottle included is a good idea. I physically cannot BF due to not having enough milk producing tissue. I am really struggling to come to terms with it.
Having a bottle included in the set is promoting the fact that FF is perfectly fine to do. Perhaps the doll should also be able to produce milk (after all, they can wee and poo these days!). That way everyone is happy

Obviously I am sleep deprived Of course the doll shouldn't produce milk. Ignore me Maybe the doll should come with a pretend breast pump

As you can buy cars, bikes and horses for baby dolls I don't think a child would think that bottle feeding was the only way to feed their own baby as an adult.

Thanks BCNS - might just do that. Feel ok about it now, just try not to think about anything except how lucky I am to have children at all

Sorry, back to the thread......

lololol

yes yabu

OP - would you prefer that the baby doll set cam complete with strap on fake adult size plastic boobs so that your DD can emulate feeding a baby in the way you prefer??

Is this a serious thread? I honestly think it might be time for me to leave MN when I read this kind of thread.

Ridiculous isn't it? Makes me laff tho to see people get all wound up about bottle feeding. The baby is getting fed either way and to call a woman selfish for choosing to FF is just plain bizarre, insulting and small minded.

I BF for about a week but was so tired and sore I wanted to FF as I felt my body had gone through enough, and I was doing dangerous things due to the tiredness. The MW's and HV's acted like I had just taken a dump in DS's moses basket and tried to scare me off by saying he could die of cot death (yes really) if I FF. Nice attitude eh?

My baby has a lovely roof over his head, gets every spare penny I have spent on him, is loved and kept clean, warm and safe. Apparently though I am a selfish bitch because I wanted to make sure I wasn't tired enough to care for him.

I'd hate to see either one or the other normalised, as surely the norm should be that the baby is fed ???!!!

Oh can't somebody please move this thread over to the breastfeeding section - and the obsessed dullards on there can debate about it and thrash out statistics until their heart's content.

Have you read the thread Leonie? What a terrible thing to say when someone only a few posts above you has just said they cannot physically breastfeed.

So now you're telling them they're not normal because they FF.

Nancy, I think that's possibly the most sensible thing anyone's said on this thread. Please can we have this thread moved? it's depressing me.

Leonie - my babies were bf for years too. And they had expressed milk in a bottle because I went to work! It also enabled DH to feed them too. Very liberating for us both! And yes, of course from about months they had water in sippy cups too.

THERE IS NOTHING EVIL ABOUT A BABY DRINKING FROM A BOTTLE. IT DOES NOT MAKE YOU A BETTER PARENT IF YOUR CHILD HAS NEVER HAD A BOTTLE IN ITS MOUTH.

from about five months I meant

Those of you with babies that have never used a bottle have you never given them a drink of water then?

Hoochie - I think some people on here are making the massive assumption that bottle feeding is the same thing as formula feeding. Talk to the millions of women who express milk which is then fed to the baby through a bottle.

at nanncy's comment about breastfeeding obsessed dullards...sounds , erm, ratehr bitchy, but hohum....
presumably one should be lucky when one isn't called a bf nazi or militant....

As for OP, I can understand your sentiment....saying that, I used to "bottlefeed" my dollies and that didn't stop me breastfeeding my own children....so, not sure how much impact removing the bottle will have....

Why am I reading this thread?
Yes FF and BF are not the same. I would give my right arm to be able to produce enough milk.
well, now I'm back to feeling like sh*t just when I was on the up.
Why are people so narrow minded?