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Tweet Nothings: Six Year Olds Who Breast Feed

 

Picture a 7-year-old girl strapping on a flowered halter top with falsies and suckling her baby doll at the imaginary breasts. Complete with slurping and gurgling sounds and cries for hunger.

A Spanish toymaker is introducing a breast-feeding baby doll to the market. The doll’s name is Bebe Gloton, (translated as “gluttonous baby”) and it is causing quite the controversy. Feel free to watch the manufacturer’s video, if you are curious.

Company executives tout, "The Breast Milk Baby will revolutionize our nation's attitudes to good infant health, while letting little girls share in the wonder and magic of motherhood. The Breast Milk Baby lets young girls express their love and affection in the most natural way possible, just like Mommy!" (BTW -  The doll retails for $99.)

My personal opinion? I think that it is beyond creepy. 

I know that I am going to get a lot of flack for my opinion, but REALLY?!  Picturing my niece playing in the yard with fake nipples and a sucking baby just makes me shudder.

Granted, I had a medical condition that prevented me from breastfeeding my own children. Couple that with the fact that I produced boys, then perhaps I am not really qualified to weigh in on this subject.

Many will likely argue that breastfeeding is completely natural and as such a breastfeeding doll is inherently more natural than a bottle-feeding doll.

Say what you like, my view is that it is NOT AT ALL natural for a 6-year-old to breastfeed a baby.

Period.

What is next? A fake menstruation cycle?

What do YOU THINK? Check out this Twitter stream for more opinions on the subject.

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