advice needed, Do you encourage your dd to breastfeed their dolls??

[chapsmum]

I bfeed my chap now without a second thought, I was feeding him infront of a close friends wee girl (who has no brothers or sisters).
She had a bottle for her baby anabell and was quite confused as to where the milk was coming from and why my chap didn't hve a bottle.
Her mum was great about it, then later on she wanted to bfeed her doll...She did but without lifting her top.

Now I know breast feeding is the most naturla thing to do in the world but how do you handle this situation?

would appreciate any thought/experience on the matter.

Our Mum!

I think these stories are lovely. I plan to have another baby when my now 5month old DD is around 4-5years. Perhaps she'll try and bf her own dolls seeing me bf.

My BIL would go ballistic if his DS started to bf anything! He already goes beserk when he sees his DS pretending to iron / hoover. Also went ballistic when he found his DS tottering around in a pair of pink shoes that belonged to a friend. He doesnt understand that his DS is only imitating, as as he's around his mummy a lot, he'll copy her.

Ds1 used to bf his teddy whilst I read him his bed time story. I was made to stop whilst he changed sides...thought it was fab. He only did it for as long as bf ds2 though.

How sweet Hannah!
I think my dd and I have b/fed every doll,soft toy and puppet in this house!

When I had DS2, DS1 (17 months at the time) would sit with me when I was bfeeding and he often fed his toy rabbit at the same time. The only thing that bothered me about it was that he held his rabbit closer to his belly button than to his chest . The years and gravity haven't been kind to me...

OK, this thread is becoming a bresatfeeding zoo:
rabbits, bears, cats, dogs...

any rhino's any one ?

breastfeeding, even !

My dd feeds her dolls...I was quite upset when my friends dd started doing it (copying me) and friend got really emabarrassed, stopped her doing it and got her the dolls bottle instead. She has a few issues with breastfeeding I think. I think if we support our dd's (and ds's) role-playing behaviour then surely this will encourage them in turn to be positive about breastfeeding for their own children?
As for the decency or not of children lifting up their tops, my dd's dolls seem to feed more from her tummy button....:)

My grandson has just found some of my daughter's "little babies" dolls (tiny collectable dolls) and shoves them up his jumper. He says he is giving them milk from his "nibbles" like mummy does to F his sister!:o