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

Bye-bye Bottle: Breastfeeding Baby Dolls are Here

Bebé Glotón 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 Euros.

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They’re not as creepy or ugly as those real-life dolls but the concept is creepy alone. Just why should little girls be groomed into being baby making machines? These dolls do more harm than good to a girl’s self image. Why not just train a five year old to be a hooker? Oh wait a minute, we already have those, they are called child beauty pageants. My bad. Ironically, they are made in Spain. I wonder if these will be marketed in Latin America? Not to worry, most of those girls are already groomed at a young age to make lots of babies, I am sure they do not need any dolls to help them do that part. At that age, I’d stick to playing with Legos, which are a far more educational toy than some breast-feeding doll.

Apparently the little girls of America are not being sexualized enough.