Baby dolls for boys

[spatulagirl]

Does your son play with dolls?

I really want to get my son a baby doll. He is very much into babies and wants to have a baby to put to sleep, feed, change etc. Whenever he plays with little girls he loves to push their baby dolls around in the play strollers, etc. I have been looking for a baby doll with accessories that aren't obviously for only girls and haven't found anything so far. I want a nice quality baby doll and would prefer one that is life-like as we are preparing for an arrival in June. I think it would be great for Hunter to be able to get used to caring for a baby and to have his own baby for when the real baby arrives. I need to be able to order it online as we are overseas.

Any suggestions?

[BAU3]

my ds,3, has a baby.. after his cousin came to visit with her doll when he was 1 1/2 or 2 he really wanted one. I don't remember where I bout it, but its a bald babythat was dressed in pink clothes, but we just put his old baby clothes on it ( the doll is about newborn size) and his name is Hank(also his big brothers name...) He doesn't carry him around all the time, but frequently we take Hank places etc... I always tell him he's a great Dad when he takes care of his baby..washes him etc..
People always ask me what dh thinks of of it: I always say "umm, he thinks about the same as any of his other toys, why?".leaving them to think about it a bit..

Sorry I have no suggestions as to where to get a good quality one... ours is just a cheap dept. store one..

[L.J.]

My son has had a baby since he was 1. The first few years he used it like a hammer but after his brother was born, he nurtures it. I think it's great.

[3boysmom]

All 3 of my guys have had baby dolls, but really only #3 paid much attention to his. We got him a doll stroller for it and he loved to push it around the neighborhood or grocery store. He stopped having much to do with it after he turned two.

[Saundra]

I had such a hard time finding a doll for my son too. I didn't want to order an expensive, custom-made Waldorf doll and then find that my ds wouldn't play with it. I never did find a boy doll, but I did find a girl doll at Pottery Barn on sale for $19 this past Christmas. It's a bit smaller than life-size, about 12 inches long. If you remove all the pink clothing, she looks just like a he. I sewed a little shirt and pants for it, but I think that newborn or preemie clothes would fit it. The doll even comes with a white cloth diaper with velcro so it can be taken on and off.

[wolfmom]

i am putting the finishing touches on my ds baby doll. he loves babies and a friend gave us a baby stroller for his birthday. the really cool thing -- the doll i found was one that my mom had started making for me and my sisters about 18 years ago that i am just finishing off. it is cabbage patch kid style but all fabric with yarn hair and an embroidered face. i love that the generations are intertwining with this doll!

[eilonwy]

My younger niece had a pink, soft, "My First Baby" kind of doll and when Eli saw it he picked it up and gave kisses. So, I took it home with me :LOL. FTR, my nieces have a ridiculous number of toys, they and their mother and grandmother are always encouraging me to take more toys home for Eli. :LOL

Eli still picks up the dolly and gives kisses and "love-loves", and he even brings the baby to me and says "nurse baby!" and pulls up my shirt. It's darling. He really likes nursing while I nurse the doll, and I'm hoping that's a good omen for tandeming. :LOL

[cat_astrophe]

I've been thinking about this lately as well. I think Jarod would love a doll. He uses his stuffed animals for babies when he plays (he nurses them even:LOL ). He allready has a play kitchen and vaccuum cleaner, so why not a doll???

[petit_bleuet]

Ian was lucky enough to get a handmade Waldorf-style doll as a birthday gift this year! I was so thrilled, it's absolutely beautiful, and Ian likes to snuggle him. I asked the other day if he was his baby's daddy and he said, "Yeah! Daddy! Baby!" and gave his baby a big hug.

[curlygrrl]

DS has one baby, it is a stuffed animal he's always had but of late he's started to nurture it from time to time. I always wanted him to have a nice baby doll all along but they all said "Three and up." Now that he's three, I feel he should choose it himself and I can never get him to pick one out, LOL!

I honestly don't think you can get a stroller or other accessories that aren't in pink or "girly" colors and patterns. It's sad but true. I wanted to get him a kitchen set but they're all P-I-N-K. I personally don't like pink at all!

Tamara

[Jish]

Both of my boys each have two "babies" and they love them. At around age 2 my oldest became obsessed with them, which worked out nicely since I was pregnant at the time. We took his baby everywhere !!! It was never not with him. Then that Christmas he saw another doll (the Miracle Moves Baby -- the old one that doesn't pee: ) and fell in love. It was the only thing he wanted that year. Then he got the double stroller because both babies had to go everywhere with us. We got some strange looks as we grocery shopped and our 2 1/2 yo son pushed his babies around the store in his pink double stroller. I only remember a few nasty comments about me letting my boy play with dolls. We got mostly nice comments about how nuturing he was and how gentle. I didn't tell most people that he also carried them in a sling, nursed them, and pumped with my breastpump so they could have the occasional bottle of ebm.

One day he's really going to hate that picture of him in only his undies pumping.:LOL

Now my boys are 5 1/2 and 3 and although they don't play with their dolls like my oldest used to (he out grew it the summer he turned four and the neighborhood boys introduced him to sports and nintendo: ) they still each sleep with both their dolls every night.

As for the sex of the doll thing, my oldest always named his dolls girls names and said they were girls. I'm not sure why. My 3 year old also says that both of his babies are girls. I'm pregnant with number three and he says that it is a girl too because to him, all babies are girls.

[3boysmom]

curlygrrl ~ We found a red stroller at Toys R Us. They also had navy blue, but ds chose red.

[LDSmomma6]

My 5 yr old DS loves to play Polly Pockets, but his sisters wouldn't allow him, so he would use his GI Joes, and that was fine except he was always telling Polly and her friends to "freeze, stick your hands up!", etc... Well, just before Christmas I was at Walmart, and I found a Polly Pockets boy doll named Rick! I bought it and "Santa" gave it to him. He was so thrilled, and so were his sisters. LOL!!

[Clarity]

graco blue plaid stroller from toysrus/amazon

ty, the beanie people make cute cloth dolls with dressup clothes...we have a very cute brown boy and girl with stuff like doctor clothes.

groovy girls makes a boy doll.

at Tuesday Morning we got a high end german boy doll with cute gender newutral winter outfit, i think it's a Gotz. it was very nice, cloth body, plastic hands, feet and head. Love that one, the clothes were very nice quality.

check out the itty bitty baby line of american girl dolls. $$$$ but nice acecssories and I think they have boys.

magic cabin has some gender neutral doll clothes in solid colors.

dd, with access to lovely waldorf dolls, also likes the cheap all plastic doll with bathtub and accessories, and you can put boy doll clothes on it...it's bald. dd usually carries it around naked.

there's nothing about any of these dolls that would rule them out for under-3's, save for the occassional acessory you can remove.

[guerrillamama]

when i was a kid there was a boy doll called "my buddy." don't know if it's still around.

[bloobug]

LOL I can't stand those My Buddy dolls. They freak me out too much. They remind of Chucky from the movie Child's Play.
My ds has 3 dolls. All of them are anatomically correct dolls. He has one asian boy doll, 1 white girl(with a puckered-crying face, I think she's so cute), and 1 black girl which is my absolute favorite. She's so beautiful.
He loves to change their diapers and carry them around in his sling and nurses them :LOL

At first dh was a little iffy : about letting ds play with dolls, until MIL reminded him that he carried a doll around for years.

Megan

[guest^]

Yes, our ds has a few dolls that he will play with. He will choose either the boyish looking ones(waldorfish) or the cheap plastic ones from Target.

He will push them around in the dc stroller, or give them rides in his dump/semi truck's! LOL!!

I think that one we got was from Magic Cabin....seemed like it was $20- something and we realized that dd had the same doll! Oh well, dd now calls them twins.They are the ones that have the all soft bodies with the long pointy caps on their heads.

He will definitely be a good Daddy someday.

mp

[yogamama]

My son is 4 and has two baby dolls - one is dressed in blue and he named him "Blueberry" and the other is dressed in pink and he named her "Strawberry." My son pretended it was Blueberry's birthday this week and got out old party favors and hats and we all sang "Happy Birthday". Cute, eh?

He even brought one of the dolls to preschool last year for show and tell.

[guerrillamama]

do y'all know the song "william wants a doll" on the "free to be you and me" album? i loved that song when i was little! ds is only 7 weeks, but i hope he plays w/ dolls...

My ds has 3 dolls. All of them are anatomically correct dolls. He has one asian boy doll, 1 white girl(with a puckered-crying face, I think she's so cute), and 1 black girl which is my absolute favorite.

these sound great? where did you get them? (thinking of gifts for other kids i know.)

[wende]

I'm usually just a lurker around here but wanted to add my 2cents.

When my ds was 2 I saw a Cabbage Patch Kid at Toys R Us and fell in love with it. My ds is about 1/4 Filipino and has the almond eyes and crazy dark hair and this doll looked EXACTLY like him so I bought it. He carried that doll with him everywhere. He nursed it, he made sure it was buckled in the car, everything. CPK's aren't as easy to come by lately for some reason but you may be able to find one online.

Also, I noticed that TRU has Graco strollers and high chairs in tan and navy blue for baby dolls. I believe that may be where I got my ds's kitchen, too. It was red, blue, and yellow but I can't for the life of me remember who made it.