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breast feeding it's not just for big people anymore..
Posted by Floormodel • 8/07/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: boob, mmkay, news item, pseudo-boobage, toys
Controversial Doll Lets Little Girls Pretend to Breast-Feed
A controversial new doll is leaving some parents wishing for the good old Cabbage Patch days.
A Spanish toymaker known as Berjuan has developed a breast-feeding doll that comes with a special halter top its young "mothers" wear as they pretend to breast-feed their "babies." The halter top has daisies that cover the little girls’ nipples and come undone just as easily as the flaps of a nursing bra would.
The doll — called Bebe Gloton, which translates as “gluttonous baby” — makes sucking noises as it "feeds."
Like many other dolls, Bebe Gloton can cry, signaling she wants more milk.
Although many health care providers promote the benefits of breast-feeding, parents around the world have criticized Berjuan, saying the idea of breast-feeding is too grown-up for young children -- and may even promote early pregnancy.
"That's not cool," Lori Reynolds, of El Paso, Texas, told KFOXTV "No, I would never get that for my child."
But other moms said they support the product.
"I think that it’s great that people want to have a doll that promotes breast-feeding,” said Rose Haluschak, also of El Paso. “Most dolls that are purchased come with a bottle. That is the norm in society, an artificial way to feed your baby.”
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537261,00.html
User Comments
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sometimes even I am left speechless
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LOLZ!! Thank god my daughter is too young for crap like this. this is wrong and sad!!
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That's really creepy. And I'm a total advocate for breastfeeding. -
I saw that yesterday and I was speechless as well. What the frak?
I think that doll is very creepy. I can see how they can use it to train adolescent mothers to breast feed. I understand the point of teaching little girls that breast feeding is good. But, I do not think it is necessary to do so when they are 5-6 years old. -
The idea to suppost breast feeding is a good one. But to make it a doll is scary. Children are way to young to be doing that. -
“What’s next?” wrote Eric Ruhalter, a parenting columnist for New Jersey’s Star Ledger. “Bebe Sot — the doll who has a problem with a different kind of bottle, and loses his family, job and feelings of self-worth? Bebe Limp — the male doll who experiences erectile dysfunction? Bebe Cell Mate — a weak, unimposing doll that experiences all the indignation and humiliation of life in prison?
We could be rich if we beat them to it. lol I guess people will buy anything.-
What about "Bebe Ines" (only for latinamerican market). She bloats, she cries, she bleeds! eeeeewwwwwwww
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Yeah...that's a little bit much for a kid. My god, the kids don't even have the teets to practice with - or a concept of why they're doing it (or a concept of childbirth and all that goes with it).
Are we trying to turn our kids back into little adults?-
Apparently that seems to be the purpose Anok, first the clothes, now the dolls.
Why don't we let our kids be innocents and enjoy childhood? Why do we want them to grow up faster than is needed?
By the way Anok, the doll comes with a bra with grown tits :-S -
Holy Hell. It's funny though, (and to play devil's advocate here) - the notion that children should be children until well into their teens (and some longer than that
) is a relatively new concept.
Humans for centuries "grew up" rather fast - and with good reason. I can't help but wonder if our incessant pushing for stuff like this is a genetic throwback of sorts. -
I've never thought about it that way Anok. I'm a total generation X, even though I had to grow up fast myself; losing my Dad when I was 7 and realizing we had serious money problems when I was 10. My cousins and friends had very sheltered lives. Their first worries were the he-likes-me, he-likes-me-not kinda thing.
I still think that some things is better to learn them when you can really understand the whole picture.
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Hahaha, the packaging is funny. What kind of baby goes "CHOP CHOP CHOP" while breast feeding?
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