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An amazing new scanning technique allows expectant mothers to hold a life-size model of their unborn child. Credit: RCA/Rex Features / Rex USA
The Bebé Glotón, the breast-feeding doll, which translates from Spanish to mean Glutton Baby, comes with a snazzy halter top - adorned with daisies for nipples - that little girls wear while they pretend to breast-feed. According to thingamababy.com, the doll makes suckling noises when lifted to the daisies.
Berjuan Bebé Glotón is a breast-feeding baby doll. Credit: Berjuan.com
Of course, there are benefits to both dolls. Anything that encourages breast-feeding and empowers young girls to embrace the natural side of womanhood is a good thing. And Stuart Campbell, M.D., a pioneer on the use of diagnostic ultrasounds in the 1980s, told the Timesonline.co.uk that he is eager to use the plaster fetus dolls to help expectant parents deal with problems that may arise during pregnancy.
We can't help but rue the loss of imagination, when a doll could be a princess or a pirate (or both) and pregnancy was miraculous, precisely because we didn't really know what was happening in that big belly.
And what exactly are you supposed to do with those plaster fetus dolls once the baby arrives?
Just askin'.
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ReaderComments (Page 2 of 3)
7-30-2009 @ 11:43PM
DeDe said...YOU ARE ALL WHACKED!!!! EXCEPT FOR LAURA WHO SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS HER HEAD ON STRAIGHT! NOW YOU WONDER WHY ALL THESE YOUNG GIRLS ARE GETTING PREGNANT. ITS BECAUSE EVERYONE THINKS THAT THESE TOPICS ARE NORMAL AND ALRIGHT TO DISCUSS WITH, LET ME SAY THIS SLOW.....CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOOD OL'DAYS WHEN CHILDREN WERE SEEN AND NOT HEARD. THIS ENCOURAGES TEEN PREGNANCIES. AGAIN WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE???? NO ONE HAS MORALS ANYMORE AND THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE A PARENTS JOB TO RAISE YOUR CHILDREN WITH VALUES. THIS IS THE WORLDS PROBLEM!!!!!!
8-06-2009 @ 12:06AM
Leann Knapp said...What does that have to do with the dolls??
7-30-2009 @ 9:46PM
diane h said...Only immoral libs would buy a breast feeding doll. Nothing is immoral to them. They have no sense of right or wrong.
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8-04-2009 @ 9:19AM
Amy R said...How is buying a breastfeeding doll immoral? I breast fed my daughter, and I personally would have her use a bottle for her baby because she doesn't have breasts yet, but if she pretended to breast feed a doll, I would certainly not get mad. Really, girls don't need a breast feeding doll, they can just use their imagination, which they are naturally going to do if they see an adult breastfeeding.
Soooo...if you breastfeed and you are OK with your child seeing someone breastfeeding they will probably pretend to do so and you will deal with it gracefully ("that's something we do in private, or cover up if we have to do it in public, I didn't feed you in front of Uncle Rusch Limbaugh because it made him uncomfortable", etc.) If, on the other hand, you don't breastfeed and you are uncomfortable with women who do so in your presence, it seems highly unlikely that your child would want this doll or pretend to breastfeed. You will simply tell your child "I used a bottle to feed you, you can use a bottle to feed your baby too". Why, oh why do we need to attack each other's values and choices?
8-03-2009 @ 10:23PM
KK said...I agree with you DEDE
7-30-2009 @ 10:09PM
Donna said...people who think it is wrong to have a doll that pretends to nurse have issuses. I have 4 childen of my owen between 25 and 5 years of age all was breast feed along with a few others that I wet nuresed for friends and relitives off and on a few times. I never tried to hid the fact that i was nursing a baby from any child ever. I can not count the number of times that seen a young niece of mine of a frinds little girl left up their shirt and put one of there baby dolls up to where their breast would be. if you ask them what they was doing usully they would look at you like you was realy stupid and say somethhing like my babys hunger. or i am feeding my baby. I am sure I am not the only person who has seen this happen before. if they are going to do it on their own why not make a doll for that purpose. and yes most children learn once they wre so old you dont just left up your shirt in public for everyone to see everything.
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7-30-2009 @ 10:32PM
Tiffani said...HA! We can only hope! LOLOL!
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7-30-2009 @ 11:14PM
Gina said...GROSS! What's next! The birth your own doll for kids??? Come on! Leave the personal things like that out of little girls lives! They don't need to "NURSE" a doll! I know it's a natural thing and all that but it's just too weird.
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7-30-2009 @ 11:24PM
Susan said...Silly new toys... stuff we don't need!!
If you are a fan of nursing your babies, your children who play with dolls or stuffed animals will pick up on that.. OBVIOUSLY.. without a doll and stick-on nipples. My daughter is always carrying something in her sling (which I made with a floursack dish towel) and as she did, "it" "nurses" all the time in there.
At that age, it's not about yes or no you should or should not breastfeed.
Some people can't or don't want to. And that's OK TOO!!
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7-30-2009 @ 11:38PM
drksilverhawk said...Wait, so having a baby doll come with a bottle is perfectly fine, but a breastfeeding doll is "gross" according to 72% of people here? What is wrong with the world today?
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7-31-2009 @ 12:29AM
lynn said...I can see there is a pedophile behind this.....little girls are babies.....leave them alone.......and let them be children....they grow up fast enough....
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7-31-2009 @ 1:07AM
Sarah said...It is disgusting what all of these idiots think they can pawn off as normal everyday stuff. This crap is not nessesary for little ones to have to deal with. Let them be kids and have fun. The adult bullcrap will be part of their lives all to soon. No wonder our kids are so screwd up. I say it is time that we take back control of our own children and forget all these so called idiot experts. I for one have had it and am fed up.Children should have the chance to be children, be carefree, have fun and not have to be afraid of all the sick people out there. We are all allowing abnormal behavior to be accepted as normal everyday living. It is time we start speaking up. It seems that all the idiots have more rights than we do and it is downright disturbing.
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7-31-2009 @ 1:03AM
michele said...They already had a pregnant Barbie it didn't work out very well.
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7-31-2009 @ 1:11AM
sunshinekittieface said...I don't think ANYONE leaving a comment is wrong...
First off, let me say, everyone on here is entitled to their own opinions. My opinion, is that this toy shouldn't have even passed the drawing board. I think breast feeding is a beautiful, natural, healthy thing for a mother and baby, and creates a wonderful bond between the two. I do not, however, think that a little girl needs a doll and stick-on flower nipples to show her these things. If parents were still parenting these days, they would talk to their children about these issues, and let her use her own baby-doll for this instead of going out and buying a baby-doll for their child just because it comes with fake, stick-on flower nipples. It seems like most parents are relying on television, toys, the education system, etc way too much for most things related to sexual education and most parenting responsibilities in general (and if you take offense to this, please note that I said MOST parents, not ALL...there are still a handful of parents who know how to parent their children). This is just what the world needs when it comes to toys, right along side Bratz dolls and Bratz kids dolls, the VIBRATING Harry Potter broomstick, etc. I don't think the idea of breastfeeding that the toy is trying to convey is necessarily wrong. Like I said before, breast feeding is natural, and women have obviously been doing it since the dawn of time...but the fact that it has even BECOME a toy and it's being put on the shelves does bother me. Anyway, I've had my say, and I don't expect it to sink in with a lot of people but who knows? Maybe someone will read this and realize this world is going to shit, and that children ARE our future. Then we can try to help our current situation, instead of making it worse by creating toys that give little girls the want and need to have a real baby as soon as they possibly can (or are old enough to learn how).
End of story. Go ahead and hate me, it makes me laugh. But as I said, I do respect everyone's opinions on the subject, and normally I don't post comments on things that I read, but I feel this just had to be said.
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7-31-2009 @ 2:03AM
D.J. said...WHY IS IT E-V-E-R-Y TIME THE "DEMS/LIBS" GET "BACK IN OFFICE" WE HAVE SUCH "IDIOTIC" AND/OR "IMMORAL" OR "UNNECESSARY" CRAP SUCH AS THIS VYING FOR OUR CHILDREN'S MINDS? THERE'S A WHOLE HECK OF A LOT M-O-R-E THEY TRULY "N-E-E-D TO K-N-O-W" TO "SURVIVE" THIS CRAZY WORLD THAN A CONSTANT "BRAIN-WASHING" OF "SEX" AND/OR E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G POSSIBLY "RELATED" TO THE SUBJECT B-E-F-O-R-E THEY ARE EVEN OLD ENOUGH TO BEGIN TO "WONDER ABOUT SUCH THINGS"!!!??? GOOD GRIEF!!!
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7-31-2009 @ 4:51AM
sunshinekittieface said...Why are you bringing up Obama when the toy hasn't been released in the US, but in Spain? And not only that, but Obama has NOTHING to do with what toys get created, OR what toys are put on the shelf for our children....
I think you should READ the article before you start criticizing our nations leaders.
7-31-2009 @ 2:30AM
Amber said...Both ideas are so creepy.
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7-31-2009 @ 2:51AM
mary said...this is such a stupid toy!
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7-31-2009 @ 3:32AM
emily said...i think this is very very strange. little girls dont even know where babies come from...should we have some kind of childrens toy explaining step-by-step the wonders of mommy and daddy having sex..complete with a dildo and lube?? no. little girls should be little girls and should not be thinking about what they have under their shirts. and should definately not be pretending to feed a child with their pe-pubescent breasts.
this is just revolting.
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7-31-2009 @ 4:45AM
sunshinekittieface said...here here! Thank you =] Another point well stated