A Breastfeeding Doll? WTF?

[...] just read Brett’s Strollerderby post about the Bebe Gloton faux-breastfeeding doll, and spent a good few minutes haunted by the idea of a doll feeding on a child and making weird [...]

[...] heard about the Breastfeeding Doll, aka Bebé Glotón? You’ve seen the pictures. But now you can see the [...]

My strictly bottle-fed daughters pretend to breastfeed their stuffed animals and dolls all the time. They stick them up under their shirts. The only weird part about this to me is the strap-on contraption. ANY doll can be a “breastfeeding doll.” This strikes me as a marketing gimmick.

what a silly doll, but breastfeeding is under promoted in Spain so I guess they are trying to do something right.
oh and yes, gloton mean glutton for sure - but this is not necessarily intended negatively as it is often used oddly positively regarding children’s eating habits there

It’s a gut reaction. I think it’s the girl putting on an apparatus that I found odd. Meredith points out the possibility of “weird slurping sounds” over at Droolicious (http://snipurl.com/o8kdq) and I think that could add to the strangeness. I honestly never thought about a kid pretending to breastfeed a doll, but that doesn’t provoke the same reaction in me as this product, nor does the doll that Meredith posted about on Drool.

Comments When girls (or boys) have a breastfeeding mother, that’s how they pretend to feed their babies. Nothing creepy about it.

I’m a mother. This is sick! A child does not need to know about “breast feeding” at this time in their lives. Let kids enjoy their childhood. They will have PLENTY of time to learn and understand breast feeding at the APPROPRIATE AGE - teenage years and up! There’s a bigger picture to look at, and to see young girls strap up and have a doll to their chest can give the wrong idea to people out there who abuse children sexually. It can also give a confusing message to kids (especially girls). While I understand the need to educate people on breast feeding, please understand that the wrong age group has been targeted to promote this! For those of you who support this, perhaps you should get your head examined!

How awful is this doll, it may promote little girls and boys wanting to someday become parents. Oh my gosh! Playing “mommy” is even more realistic with this sweet baby doll! Press the doll’s bracelet to “wake” her up. It’s time to eat! Mix her special food and feed her, using her bowl and spoon - she’ll really “chew” her food and even “drink” from her bottle - and tell you how much she likes it! And since she’s “potty training”, she’ll also let you know when she needs to go. Better hurry, though! Put her on the potty and she’ll “pee” and “poop”. But if you don’t get there in time, you might hear her say, “Oops. I had an accident! Her name is Baby Alive, by Hasbro. http://www.hasbro.com/babyalive/en_US/shop/details.cfm?guid=93FEC881-6D40-1014-8BF0-9EFBF894F9D4&product_id=22167&src=endeca

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Comments: What I think is sick is letting your child pretend to feed a baby with a bottle. My daughter plays with a nursey doll, I think its horrible that mother’s would push a “potty doll” or Besty Wetsy or whatever you call them on a kid to push them to toilet train, when they should be teaching them things like what their breasts are really for. Or hell, you could just give them a bratz doll so they can learn how to dress and act like a whore, I would worry more about teen pregnancy from the children that play with bratz then a nursing doll. get real.