[ParisApril]

I bought a Fisher Price House at the second hand store today. When
I got home and was able to open it, it contained a mother, father and baby. The mother was holding a bottle

: so I amputated her hand. I feel silly doing that but I don't want the kids seeing that all the time. What would you have done if anything?

 

[CallMeMommy]

 

[Sagesgirl]

I'd have done the same thing. I avoid buying dolls with bottles whenever possible (I buy the "Lots to Love" babies all the time for this reason, & because they're usually $10/ea), and when I do buy 'em, I throw away the bottles immediately.

 

[kyndmamaof4]

 

[frontierpsych]

I already kinda turn my head when I go shopping and pass the aisle with all the bottles. (and I'm still pregnant!) I've started to feel almost a little weird when I see a bottle. (probably the same feeling some people get when they see someone NIP!

) I think I would have done the same thing.

 

[firstkid4me]

I would do the same thing as Sabra, luckily though, all of Emily's dolls are hand-me-downs so there are no bottles

 

[blsilva]

ROTFLMAO! I'd've done it, too! My boys don't even know what a bottle is- they have to ask when they see one, and I tell them its a sippy cup. They actually "nurse" their toys! Its pretty hilarious.

 

[jessjgh1]

I was at Target yesterday and I heard a person yell out, "did ya get some nipples...." (they were in the bottle isle).

And I just about burst out laughing thinking, 'thank GOD mine are attached'.

Of course, I wanted to open my big mouth and say something like, "hey, I got mine for free, look they are prewashed, entirely mobile. and toddler approved!"

So apparently, it is "okay" to shout out nipple in the middle of a store-- but just not to show a nipple while nursing in public.

It was the only thing that made me feel better about all the moms I saw yesterday-- not nursing. Even though, I don't want to assume, since some of the bottles were at least, Avent ones. I mean, it didn't make me feel better-- but at least it was a little funny.

Jessica

 

[Ruthla]

DS got that dollhouse for his 3rd birthday- and considering that he was still nursing at the time, I didn't think that one doll with a bottle was going to make a big difference in his lactation education. It never occured to me to amputate the mommy dolly's hand!!

I still remember once DD "pumped" into a doll bottle, then put it in the fridge next to the real bottle of ebm.

My kids knew what bottles were because DS got bottles of ebm when I was working. Just because they were buying bottle nipples doesn't mean they were exclusively formula feeding!

 

[moonfirefaery]

Bottles for children's toys don't bother me. They don't have to pretend its formula, and bottles don't just mean a baby is getting formula. Pumped breastmilk could be in there, and that's what I can teach my child is better to pretend. Now, if they had little play cans of formula, THAT wouldn't fly!

 

[Clarinet]

Quote:

Originally Posted by moonfirefaery Now, if they had little play cans of formula, THAT wouldn't fly!

I hope advertisers aren't reading!

OP, you amputated her hand?!

 

[elmh23]

I toss all bottles, sippy cups, jarred food that come with dolls. I probably would have amputed her hand also. good for you!

 

[runes]

i probably would have done the same.

 

[LoveMyLil'B]

We have that house too. I told my DS the bottle was for the cat.

It's not a very AP house, with the mom and dad in different beds and the baby way up in the attic. But my DS loves it, mostly for the toilet.

Right now I think they're doing a little remodeling. There's a wrecking ball and truck sitting in the middle of the house.

All joking aside, I love watching and listening to him when he plays with the house and doesn't know I'm watching.

He knows how babies should be fed, and I don't think a toy is going to undo what he's known all his life.

 

[frontierpsych]

or maybe I would have just cut the top off the bottle and made it look like she was holding a glass of milk for herself. I haven't seen the dolls, so I don't know if you could do that or not.

 

[User101]

I've removed bottles but I never performed doll surgery. Wasn't there a one-minute activism campaign to Fisher Price asking them to knock it off? I'll see if I can find it!

 

[User101]

Here it is!

http://www.promom.org/3min/3min_fisherprice_apr02.htm

Fire away, mamas!

 

[Mama Poot]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jessjgh1 I was at Target yesterday and I heard a person yell out, "did ya get some nipples...." (they were in the bottle isle).

:

To the OP, thanks for the idea. I know what to do if I ever encounter a toy like that

 

[BabyBumblebee]

I 'lost' the mommy

dd never notices - but I wish I'd thought of amputating instead

see, I think it does matter that they show a bottlefeeding mama - my dd is not necessarily capable of understanding that there could be juice or water in the bottle, as she would never take one. I think the message, every time manufacturers go down this road, is that bottlefeeding is actually the norm...and that that's what mommies do, and that that's what little girls can model. Why did there even have to be a bottle? Why not simply a momma holding her baby? (yup, I'm a little too jaded to hope that they'd show a little pink plastic nursing mama

: )

 

[ParisApril]

I had originally thought about cutting the nipple off the top of the bottle and glueing it to the moms chest but the crazy glue wasn't handy.