Hey Jack, I meant to respond last night, but I guess I missed it somehow.
I’m sorry your wife had to take grief from all those who felt it necessary to judge her for using a bottle.
We were fortunate enough that I could breastfeed my youngest baby, but my oldest was adopted at birth and we had to feed her formula, from a bottle. I, too, had to deal with breastfeeding extremists who felt that I should have taken medication to induce lactation even when our daughter’s birth mother could have changed her mind at any moment before and for 2 months after the baby was born, and even though I had no guarantee that I would have produced enough milk to support her growing body.
The ignorance of those who think they know everything, and think they know what is ‘best’ for everyone just because it’s what ‘they’ did is incomprehensible to me.
Postpartum depression is horrible and that other women, other mothers feel the need to belittle another woman, especially a new mother, to make themselves feel better is reprehensible.

not to mention, to everyone who finds a bottle disgusting, for mothers who can pump, it might very well be breast milk in those bottles… Why is it anyone’s place to judge what another mother does as long as she is loving and nurturing to her child, especially when you have no firsthand knowledge of her at all?

LOL probably Fred, he is an ass after all. Just saying…

My child knows English, is consistently ahead of her peers, and has emulated breastfeeding. Any more ignorant comments?

Well said!!

Ditto. Our society has confused breast feeding with sexuality. That is pretty sad.

the point he was trying to make is that this doll could lead to an early obsession with motherhood, and desire to have a baby as soon as possible.

that’s baloney. A child knowing that her breasts could/should someday be used to feed her child isn’t going to make her want to run out and use those breasts to feed a baby. If she’s going to run out and get pregnant it’s more likely caused by not enough parental attention, not enough fatherly attention, because she’s looking for love in all the wrong places and all the wrong ways.
Why would *this* doll cause an obsession that other dolls don’t? Is it so much better to have a doll that you feed from a bottle because she won’t want to be maternal? Is it better to feed a baby doll with a spoon? Or change her diapers? Or brush her hair, or swaddle her? It’s a ludicrous assumption to think that just because a young girl practices breastfeeding her baby doll that she will suddenly want to run out and get pregnant as soon as she can.

And a breastfeeding doll would have helped her train? Uh, NO! It’s the constant companion and responsibility that get to a person (especially if all you want to do is party aparently) and there is NO way to train for that!

Yes, and I did. There are breast feeding blankets, or just a baby blanket will do nicely providing some privacy.

certainly provided I had along my babies blanket (or sometimes I even remove my sweatshirt and use that to cover!) for privacy, and there is no reason any child who uses this doll couldnt do the same, even though they will still have their shirt on!

This really has me crazy!!!
First, I missed the halter with the flower buds,… So what, still disgusting!

Second,..it claims it teaches young girls how to breast feed. For Why? Would they even remember when they finnally did have a child..

Any girl still into dolls has to be at least (ideally) 15 to 20 years away from planning a family. This is nothing but a phony balogna way to make money.

Linda,
Do you have any daughters? Do you remember when they used to play “mommy” with their dollies? Do you remember when they would pretend to bottle-feed? You can buy a dolly from the store that comes with a bottle and a burp rag. This is exactly the same concept, except the “bottle” is the halter top with which the girls use to pretend to breastfeed their babies. Since you are a retired nurse, I am assuming that you bottle-fed your baby. Bottle-feeding has been the method of choice for the past 75 or so years, before the recent surge in a return to breastfeeding. If you HAD nursed your babies, you would have noticed that every little girl, and even BOYS, will hold their baby dolls up to their chest and pretend to nurse them. We don’t need to give them a dolly with a halter top that causes it to make suckling sounds for them to do this. It comes NATURALLY as they see their mommy breastfeed their younger siblings, just as they would give their baby a BOTTLE as mommy does, if the sibling was bottle-fed. This is FOOD we’re talking about here. It’s simply a matter of personal choice here what FOOD you use to raise your baby. It has NOTHING to do with anything sexual and certainly nothing REPUGNANT. Our culture approves of Barbies and Bratz dolls with their breasts hanging of their clothing, booty shorts and mini skirts. Little girls are conditioned to want to be sexy at a young age in our declining moral society. THAT and the near pornography we see on television is what is going to cause teen pregnancy, not a breastfeeding doll.

Clark, that’s just because you’re an idiot with no valid opinion in this. Grow up.
Linda, I certainly hope you weren’t a nurse on the L&D or postpartum units! It is NOT repugnant to breastfeed or to have children imitate it. I agree that Bratz dolls are far more disgusting and won’t ever cross my doorstep! You’re just old and repressed. Thank God you’re retired!

Actually, my girls know how to breastfeed. They DO breastfeed. They also cloth diaper their dolls, put them in their slings and wraps and cosleep. Children do what they witness. Some children use bottles to feed their dolls…some breastfeed.

And, yes, I do want my 3, 10, and 12 year old learning this. As to the doll that is being sold I’m anti battery toy but otherwise I do support the selling of this doll.

My 2 year old lays on the floor “nursing” her baby….she see’s me nurse her brother…big deal.