Most bizarre toy I've ever seen (BFing related.)

CleoKitty

I'm all for BFing, I'd even consider myself a BFing activist. That being said, this is just weird...

https://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/07/babyglutton.html

 

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Bye-bye Bottle: Breastfeeding Baby Dolls are Here

Beb? Glot?n is a infant doll made by Berjuan, a toy maker in Spain, for the express purpose of promoting breastfeeding. The idea is to impress upon kids that breastfeeding is natural.

Your child wears a colorful bra-like halter-top featuring flowers over the nipple area. When the doll is lifted to the flowers, it makes a suckling motion and sound. When your child?s flower nipples grow sore and cracked, either the baby cries for more, or beckons to be burped.

The flowers don?t really get sore and cracked. My wife was astounded when I read her a draft of this article, so I thought I should clarify. If the flowers wilt a little, maybe you can buy your kid a tube of lanolin.

I guess that settles the whole dolls-are-okay-for-boys issue. Or maybe it reignites the fathers lactating civil rights issue.

Here is a Spanish video report and a second video report that provide a sense of how the doll functions. The second is better, but is tucked behind a 30 second commercial.

The user comments posted below the second clip (20minutos.tv) are a hoot? with people viewing this doll as everything from inappropriately sexing up children to providing a plaything for prepubescent lesbians. But to be fair, a good number of the comments are sheer trolling. (View them by pasting the URL into a Google search, then click ?translate this page?).

Babel Fish translates the doll?s name as Baby Glutton. If anyone is familiar with Spanish culture (Spain, not Latin America), I?d love to hear their thoughts about that name.

This gluttonous baby is 50 cm (19.6 inches) long, the average length of a real newborn and is available in either gender. There?s no word yet on whether the boy is anatomically correct. The dolls retail for about 44 Euro.

See the Beb? Glot?n official site (just photos at this point? after the Flash intro, click ?mecnanismos? and then ?Bebe Gloton?)

 

 

 

mlm1128

I don't think me daughter needs to practice breastfeeding anymore thatn she needs to practice how to make a baby, thank you very much.

Zenya

I'm not sure what I think of that.  I guess I think it's a bit dumb.

happ17

I'm not done reading this, but I'm a litle bothered by this part:

When your child?s flower nipples grow sore and cracked, either the baby cries for more, or beckons to be burped.

And I'm very much pro-breastfeeding if you are able.  

Kapalua

Zenya:

I'm not sure what I think of that.  I guess I think it's a bit dumb.

This

and DS manages to BF the babydolls just fine without flower pasties to help him!  LOL

DandR

then why does the doll have a pacy?? I didn't think bf babies were supposed to get pacy's!!!!!

hahaha..that is funny and no way I would get that for my DD...the bra is a bit much.

My DD's mimicked me when I nursed and that was no biggie, but I cant imagine the bra thingy and doll actually "sucking"....

LinzDavid

mlm1128:

I don't think me daughter needs to practice breastfeeding anymore thatn she needs to practice how to make a baby, thank you very much.

 

lol!

summerbrideDC

I love that they write "chup chup chup" for when the baby is nursing. ?LOL?

Eh, I think the whole flower pasties are weird, but I'm not averse to a little girl nursing her dolls in make-believe. ?I think it promotes a really healthy body image and a more appropriate understanding of breasts, as opposed to growing up thinking they're just to attract boys. ??

mlm1128

Oh, I don't care if dd nurses her dolls.  But she doesn't need cracked sore nipples...or a bra with stripper like pasties. I should have been clearer on that point.

Amanda&Chris

I think the doll is weird and I am also pro-BF.  I BFed each kid for 12 months and plan to do the same for #3.  I just don't think the flower nipples are really necessary.

 MH is fluent in Spanish and lived in Spain for 4 months so I asked him about the translation since it was mentioned in the article.  He said it would either be Greedy Baby or Gluttonous Baby.

tanda627

We were talking about this in our breastfeeding support group last week. A little much I think.... DD doesn't need to practice breastfeeding.