Breastfeeding Doll For Junior Lactivists

phpyCPF55PM.jpg Hey kids, you can get kicked out of the library and IKEA now too! Meet Bebe Gloton, which translates to Greedy Baby, or more accurately: Creepy Breastfeeding Baby Doll. A Spanish toy company created the toy, which comes with a bra-like halter top featuring flowers where the milk would come from. Allegedly it's "latched on to the petals, where it emits a suckling sound, before it has to be burped to stop it from crying" (as demonstrated in this video). The View ladies discussed the controversial doll, which is currently only sold in Spain, and Elizabeth Hasselbeck admitted that her daughter imitated her breastfeeding. The creator said that they realized girls were, in fact, imitating the action, and the doll garnered a positive reaction amongst them; "Their faces of happiness said it all." Well, breastfeeding is linked to lowering cancer risks. And the world awaits the Park Slope Parents message board thread...

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Target market is about right. Kids still playing with dolls are usually pregnant.

I don't understand the hub-bub. Lots of people claim it's because it's exposing kids to being mothers too young. Ah-whuuut? What about the entire baby doll industry? For years, people have thought it's perfectly acceptable to give girls tiny dolls to imitate maternal behaviours on, even giving them little strollers, etc. The only different between this doll and those is that those dolls come with little milk bottles to feed the baby.

So It's ok if it's a little fake milk bottle indoctrinating her into being a mommy, but somehow it's bad when it's fake breast-feeding? Makes no sense.

Oh great, pedophiles of the world are rejoicing.

You know my views, but even I find myself puzzled.

Does it come with a little plastic Medela breast pump in case the flowers run dry?

When I was a young girl I had a male doll with a penis who made pee-pee after I "fed" him ... so what.

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