People are obsessed with reality TV. Real Housewives, Jersey Shore, Big Brother, Kardashians–reality television rules the airwaves.
The trend seems to have made its way to the world of dolls. It’s no longer exciting that a doll can talk. These days dolls can give birth, breastfeed, and poop.
MamAmor Dolls are pregnant, birthing and breastfeeding dolls. They are handmade, cloth dolls with all the anatomically correct bits and pieces. The mama dolls give birth to a baby doll, complete with an umbilical cord attached to a little, felt placenta. Baby dolls are born vaginally and there are even VBAC mama dolls, for those moms who were able to give birth vaginally after a C-section.
MamAmor’s describes the dolls as, “educational tools that demonstrate normal, natural birth, breastfeeding and bonding. They can also be used to help prepare children for the arrival of new siblings. They are appropriate for ages 3 and older, but with adult supervision, they can be used in play with younger children as well,” on its website.
Bebé Glotón dolls are breastfeeding dolls that come complete with a halter that your child wears with pink flowers right over her chest. When you press the baby dolls mouth to the flowers, which are child-friendly nipples, it makes slurping sounds. After baby has had enough, your child gets to burp it. Bebé Glotón is made by Berjuan, a Spanish company and has the tagline “Because you shouldn’t have to wait until you have breasts before you start breastfeeding your baby.”
Check out how it works in the video below:
Then there’s Baby Alive: Changing Time, an updated version of the classic doll (which creeped me out as a child). This Baby Alive doll pees and poops the baby food you feed it, meaning it really looks like poop in the doll’s diaper.
These dolls are meant to educate children. To show that giving birth is natural, that breastfeeding is good and that, well, babies poop.
Do you think it’s gone to far or are you a fan of reality dolls?
(Photos: Mamamor dolls from Facebook)
(Photo: Baby Alive from Facebook)
Whatever. I had a Baby Alive in the 70′s, I thought it was cool. Lots of baby dolls have bottles that come with them, and Operation! shows lots of human organs. My son, who is four, loves looking at our “The Human Body” book. He is always curious about the reproductive cycle and how a baby comes out of its mommy. I don’t see the big whoop.
There are dolls (okay, action figures!) with guns and tanks and whips and whatnot, too. I’d rather have my kids playing with pooping and nursing dolls than killing and dismembering dolls.
Schooled, amen to that.
As for the doll in the picture that must be one groovy epidural!
oh this comment thread should get interesting