WARNING: stereotypical mom rant forthcoming!
I’m sure you’ve heard about that doll, the Breast Milk Baby, and I read a few articles on parent reactions to it.
(Hey, it’s got a pacifier! Some parents would object to that!)
I figured all the hub-bub was mostly media created on a slow news day. Real people wouldn’t object to such a basic concept, right?
But after reading a local Facebook friend’s poll that asked if his friends would buy such a doll, I guess I was wrong once again.
Stunned is how I felt reading the 40 comments about how “creepy” and “gross” that sounded, how little kids don’t “need to be exposed to such things at such a young age”, and even that it “might encourage earlier sexual behavior.”
*Blink*
Are you people for realz?! A doll that holdontoyourhat doesn’t come with a bottle and pretends to be fed from a mother?! This is outrageous??
No, I’m outraged that so many in our society wring offensiveness out of a basic, healthy, mammalian behavior.
God forbid young girls (and boys, right?!) learn at “an early age” that boobs have a purpose slightly more important than bouncing in a wet t-shirt on a beach in a reality show.
Yes, Virginia, my girls had a job and they did that job well!
We’re not all livin’ on a farm anymore, and all our pets are fixed, so just where is a kid going to stumble onto casual viewing of breastfeeding? Maybe at their house (if they’re not an only child like mine), maybe at a park, but mostly nowhere.
And is breastfeeding sexy? How will donning that toy bib and holding a plastic doll up to the flower nipple inspire hot, lascivious thoughts? (I’m talking about the intended use of a suckling doll, people; don’t go all Deliverance on me now!)
News flash: If you’re really breastfeeding a baby, then you are sleep-deprived, undernourished and overtired. Yeah, that’s hawt.
You wanna complain that dolls should not have specific functions, like walking, talking, pooping, growing hair, or breastfeeding, and that kids should to pretend that Ken has a wiener their dolls can do all those things. Fine. I hear ya. I’m all for imagining you’re on a hot beach with a sweating Paolo and margaritas wild characters and crazy story lines.
But object to this doll for these other reasons? Laughable. A disgrace to mammals everywhere.
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I had not heard of the doll or the uprising it was causing- but really, people need to get over it.
Breast, while nice to look at do serve a purpose besides holding up dresses and looking good. Our bodies are amazing, we can feed our young (like all mammals do), it is much more natural then the pacifier the baby has.
Ok- my response rant is over.
Well almost over…I have seen kids (boys and girls) nurse there babies a lot. They did not have a special doll and they did it anyway. No weird sexual issues had been stirred up yet.
done,
elena
At first, I didn’t like it. I thought, gimmicky much? But then I thought about it a bit more. I was lucky enough to be surrounded by babies growing up and all of the moms breastfed if they were physically able. So part of my “mommy” play was pretending to breastfeed. But what about those little kids who don’t grow up seeing how natural it is for a woman to feed her baby that way? The more I think about this toy, the more I like it.
thanks for your thoughts! you guys both got me thinking that i NEVER saw anyone breastfeed while i was growing up in Dallas. oh the horror of doing THAT in front of people, i’m guessing was the thought. if they were doing it at all back then in the formula-pushing years….
I’m all for it! As someone who breastfed in front of a toddler, and all her toddler friends, it would have been great to have that doll! Much less awkward than a bunch of barely 2 year olds climbing on me and asking me what I was doing. It’s natural! Geez, we have dolls that poop and pee and cry until they’re burped. Why not one that breastfeeds?!
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