Eww. Just saw a commercial for this. (Ba-Ba Baby Elmo)

[TattooedMommy]

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index...ductId=2930696

Yeah.

[NoliMum]

Originally Posted by TattooedMommy

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index...ductId=2930696

Why oh why? Anyone want to join me in writing to Fisher Price?

Maybe Elmo's not a mammal and his mommy didn't have mammary glands.

[captivatedlife]

Originally Posted by NoliMum

Maybe Elmo's not a mammal and his mommy didn't have mammary glands.

Then he wouldn't need milk. I kinda like the idea of chewing up my food and regurgitating it to him. Like birds or something. (That's a joke)

[NoliMum]

Yeah, I think the bottle thing is the least of my worries. What about selling tv-based merchandise, or the fact that Elmo's hands seem to be attached to the bottle, so the toy is good for nothing else: good bye open-ended play.

HOWEVER, I do agree that baby dolls are sold with plastic bottles and pacifiers WAY too much. We just don't buy those dolls. Noli's dolls are breastfed and offered sippy cups and real food. Some times her sippy cups are breastfed too, go figure.

[Ruthla]

I don't have a problem with doll bottles existing- but I would never buy a toy like this for my child or allow him/her to keep it if it was a gift.

None of my kids ever held his or her own bottles in the position this toy is stuck in- bottles are held by a loving adult (or older sibling) while the baby is being cuddled. I never propped a bottle, and the only time I ever handed a bottle to a baby in an infant seat was when I was babysitting and this was the only way the baby would accept a bottle (if I'd held her she would have tried to nurse and her mom was NOT ok with that.)

Wait, come to think of it DS has held his own bottles during toddlerhood, but that wasn't a regular thing and he weaned off bottles long before he stopped nursing.

[TattooedMommy]

Honestly? Yes. Just not what I want to teach my kids. If the box said "Exclusively Pumping Elmo", that would be totally cool. But um, yeah, that don't look like BM to me.

[Blu Razzberri]

It's funny, though...as a child; I never really thought about bottle-feeding my dolls; and I was the oldest of five breastfed children. I just never associated bottle feeding a doll with the feeding of a real life child. *shrug* But that's just me. DS has a dolly with a bottle; but she always gets spoon fed.

Anyways, I guess they can't really sell baby Elmo with a breast as an accessory....but IMAGINE if they did!!!

[KristyDi]

Originally Posted by Blu Razzberri

Anyways, I guess they can't really sell baby Elmo with a breast as an accessory....but IMAGINE if they did!!!

Thanks for that hysterical mental picture.

I really don't have a problem with dolls and bottles. I think my dolls had bottles, but I have distinct memories of breastfeeding them. I think the real difference, as with most things, is made in the home by the parents.

[NoliMum]

I'm not trying to be unsupportive. I just don't have very high expectations for Fisher Price or any other character-based toys. I am not surprised that this came out; nor was I surprised when Elmo had his own little potty that required batteries to make obnoxious flushing noises. There is an Elmo for everything now, and I hate each and every one for different reasons.

I did notice that the bad review was deleted from the website. I read all the good reviews which referenced it, but it's not there anymore. Hmm.... :

[honeybunch2k8]

I'm wonder if some parents would be displeased with elmo carrying around a boob. Hmmm!

I"m not crazy about that Elmo doll. I can't say I would readily purchase it for any future children. Then again my future kids will be learning plenty about breastfeeding! Hypothetically I think kids who have seen nursing wouldn't use the bottle. You know, I just think it's so cute will small kids try to nurse toys and real life babies!

[rmzbm]

Originally Posted by TattooedMommy

Honestly? Yes. Just not what I want to teach my kids. If the box said "Exclusively Pumping Elmo", that would be totally cool. But um, yeah, that don't look like BM to me.

Same here.

[mama_at_home]

We don't have any baby bottles as toys but we do have a wooden milk bottle and cups. One day I saw my son holding the milk bottle up to the doll feeding it and I told him that babies need to nurse. He said "well Mommy, I'm a boy so I can't nurse the baby!" He got me with that one. Little boys like to play with dolls and babies, too, and I think it is ridiculous to expect them to pretend to nurse the doll when they have already come to the conclusion that daddies don't nurse. Anyway, ever since then I have been a little more accepting of baby bottles for dolls. But I hate Elmo and wouldn't buy a toy like that anyway.

[gabysmom617]

Originally Posted by Blu Razzberri

Anyways, I guess they can't really sell baby Elmo with a breast as an accessory....but IMAGINE if they did!!! [/COLOR]

Hmmm......Exclusivel breastfed elmo would have a furry red round breast that comes with him instead of bottle.

Now THAT would be hilarious!

[NettleTea]

Originally Posted by gemelos

But I hate Elmo and wouldn't buy a toy like that anyway.

:

[Eliseatthebeach]

Originally Posted by honeybunch2k8

Hypothetically I think kids who have seen nursing wouldn't use the bottle. You know, I just think it's so cute will small kids try to nurse toys and real life babies!

My kids have only seen my nursing, yet are fascinated with bottle feeding....go figure!

[_betsy_]

I WOH FT so my baby is nursed and given pumped milk in a bottle. She still has me, and DH, nurse all her toys. Including occassionally her shape sorter, DH's sunglasses she co-oped as a toy, the remote, her animals, wooden toys, even once a book.

She has pretty much always had both breast and bottle, and still thinks the only way to feed anything is to nurse.

[Sandstress]

Originally Posted by TattooedMommy

But um, yeah, that don't look like BM to me.

The bottle looks opaque to me. How can you tell?

[nyxx]

Originally Posted by Blu Razzberri

Anyways, I guess they can't really sell baby Elmo with a breast as an accessory....but IMAGINE if they did!!!

why with a breast? with elmo's mom...
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Elmo%27s_Mom
little monsters should be breastfed by their mothers, not by accessory breasts (which is more strange than bottles).

this reminds me of the adiri bottle: http://www.adiri.com/
are there any mothers who have problems giving their babies boob-shaped bottles in public?

[LeeKei]

This one bothered me too!!!

It drives me nuts! I go down the toy isle with my DD and there are soooo many babies with bottles. I throw all the ones she gets as gifts and the ones that come with a baby doll away!!!!

I tell her that babies should get milk from their Mommy!!!
She nurses her little baby dolls!!!

[KirstenMary]

Originally Posted by TattooedMommy

Honestly? Yes. Just not what I want to teach my kids. If the box said "Exclusively Pumping Elmo", that would be totally cool. But um, yeah, that don't look like BM to me.

Yeah, well, when I bottle fed pumped milk to my baby, it didn't look like breastmilk either.