Dolls that Give Birth and Breastfeed

This Ain't Your Mama's Barbie

Published on August 2, 2007 By Texas Wahine In Blogging

Isabella is a bit young for them yet, but I have found the most wonderful dolls ever.

They are Mini Mamas nursing dolls. These dolls can be customized to look like mommy and baby (or toddler) and daddies are available too. The mommies come with a sling for the baby. Mommy and baby have complementary magnets to "latch" the baby on to nurse.

I am really excited about these toys, although I wish there were more similar items available. Baby dolls always come with bottles. Baby clip art always has bottles. Little girls learn to bottle feed, not to breastfeed. I want Izzy to grow up understanding that breastfeeding is natural and the normal way to feed a baby.

So when she plays with baby dolls, I hope she will let them nurse. I've heard of little girls actually role playing as mommy and putting a baby under their shirts to nurse, and I love that.

I have also come across birthing dolls. This is something that will probably seem pretty out there to most, but I'm thinking...I like it. It's womanhood in it's most fundamental form and definitely not something dirty or that should be hidden. Would I pay $60 for one? No, but still...I actually think it's kind of cool.

I love that it has a little placenta and umbilical cord.

Comments

dynamaso

on Aug 03, 2007

Wow, what a great idea. Wouldn't it be a great world if we were all less self-concious when it came to our bodies. I'm not talking a nudist lifestyle but more accepting nakedness as natural and ordinary not, as you say, something that is dirty or that should be hidden.

Great dolls!

dharmagrl

on Aug 03, 2007

Wow, those things are awesome! I wish that I'd had one like that when I was little. Mine had a hole in their mouth so you could squirt water in it and a hole in their gender-ambiguous 'taint' so that said water could come back out, and that was about as sophisticated as it got. These things are fantastic!

I love the wee little umbilical cord too!

Locamama

on Aug 03, 2007

I love the nursing mommy one. I know that when I would nurse that my cousins would hold their little dollies under their shirts to feed them. I thought it was too cute. Then I had the relatives who thought nursing was "gross". I think we need to get over the whole idea that our bodies are bad. They're great, very functional and that includes all of our bits and pieces.

Hey check this out

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lifehappens

on Aug 03, 2007

where is the nursing one sold?

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