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Breastfeeding baby doll
Creepy or groundbreaking?
By LEANNE ITALIE
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) —
We've got dolls that wet,
crawl and talk. We've got
dolls with perfect hour-
glass figures. We've got
dolls with swagger. And
we've got plenty that
come with itty bitty baby
bottles.
But it's a breastfeeding
doll whose suckling
sounds are prompted by
sensors sewn into a halter
top at the nipples of little
girls that caught some flak
after hitting the U.S. mar-
ket.
"I just want the kids to
be kids," Bill O'Reilly said
on his Fox News show
when he learned of the
Breast Milk Baby. "And
this kind of stuff. We don't
need this."
What, exactly, people
don't need is unclear to
Dennis Lewis, the U.S.
representative for Berjuan
Toys, a family-owned,
40-year-old doll maker in
Spain that can't get the
dolls onto mainstream
shelves more than a year
after introducing the line
in this country — and
blowing O'Reilly and oth-
ers' minds.
"We've had a lot of
support from lots of
breastfeeding organiza-
tions, lots of mothers, lots
of educators," said Lewis,
in Orlando, Fla. "There
also has been a lot of
blowback from people
who maybe haven't
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breast
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thought to think about
really why the doll is
there and what its pur-
pose is. Usually they are
people that either have
problems with breastfeed-
ing in general, or they see
it as something sexual."
The dolls, eight in all
with a variety of skin
tones and facial features,
look like many others,
until children don the lit-
tle top with petal appli-
ques at the nipples. That's
where the sensors are
located, setting off the
suckling noise when the
doll's mouth makes con-
tact. It also burps and
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cries, but those sounds
don't require contact at
the breast.
Little Savannah and
Tony, Cameron and
Jessica, Lilyang and
Jeremiah ain't cheap at
$89 a pop. Lewis, after
unsuccessfully peddling
them to retailers large and
small, now has them list-
ed at half price on their
website in time for the
holidays this year.
"With retailers it's been
hard, to be perfectly hon-
est, but not so much
because they've been
against the products," he
said. "It's more they've
been very wary of the
controversy. It's a product
that you either love it or
you hate it."
Critics cite an unspeci-
fied yuck factor, or say it's
too mature for children.
But Stevanne Auerbach
loves it. The child devel-
opment expert in San
Francisco, also known as
Dr. Toy, evaluates dolls
and other toys for con-
sumers, lending her offi-
cial approval to Breast
Milk Baby.
"We felt that it had
merit in dealing with new
babies for the older child,"
she said, "and for the curi-
osity that children have in
this area. Breastfeeding in
Europe is acceptable and
the doll has been success-
ful there. We wanted to
open up the opportunity."
Sally Wendkos Olds,
who wrote "The Complete
Book of Breastfeeding,"
also doesn't understand
the problem.
"I think it's a very cute
toy," she said. "I think it's
just crazy what Bill
O'Reilly was saying that
it's sexualizing little girls.
The whole point is that so
many people in our soci-
ety persist in sexualizing
breastfeeding, where in so
many other countries
around the world they
don't think anything of
it."
Olds called Americans
"prudish in many ways,"
adding the doll offers:
"bodily awareness. It's
realizing that this is OK."
Lewis blames lack of
U.S. sales —just under
5,000 dolls sold in the last
year — solely on phobia
about breastfeeding,
something widely consid-
ered the healthiest way to
feed a baby.
"There's no doubt
about that," he said. "The
whole idea is that there's
still some taboos here.
They're difficult to justify
and difficult to explain
but they're out there. You
mention breast and people
automatically start think-
ing Janet Jackson or ward-
robe malfunctions and all
sorts of things that have
absolutely nothing to do
with breastfeeding."
Lewis considers Breast
Milk Baby "very much
less sexualized" than
Barbie dolls or the sassy
Bratz pack.
Olds, who lives in New
York City, agreed, though
she thinks the doll's full
retail price is too high.
"That's my only objection
to it. It's a lot of money,
but people spend a lot of
money on their children
in all sorts of ways."
Haven't little girls been
mimicking the act of
breastfeeding with their
baby dolls for centuries
without benefit of accou-
trement?
"Why do we need any-
thing with bells and whis-
tles? Why did we need a
Betsy Wetsy? Children
like toys that do things,"
Olds said, invoking one of
the first drink and wet
dolls created back in 1935.
"So this doll makes noises.
She burps, she cries, she
sucks very noisily. Big
deal."
Lincoln Hoppe, a Los
Angeles actor and father
of five — all breastfed —
said a young child who
becomes a big sibling and
sees mom nursing might
enjoy the doll just fine.
ASK DOCTOR K
Dr. Komaroff
Cause of
nightmares,
sleep terrors
a mystery
By ANTHONY L. KOMAROFF, M.D.
DEAR DOCTOR K: I've been having terrible
nightmares, and I don't know what to do.
DEAR READER: Almost everyone can remem-
ber having nightmares now and then. Just as we
don't really know why we sleep, we don't really
understand nightmares, or why some people are
more prone to have them.
Nightmares and two related phenomena —
sleep terrors and sleep-related panic attacks — can
make sleep more stressful than restful:
Nightmares can be a side effect of certain medi-
cations. These include antidepressants, narcotics
and barbiturates. Talk to your doctor to see if any
medication you're taking might be contributing to
your problem.
Nightmares can also occur
if you stop taking certain
drugs, such as benzodiaze-
pines. Alcoholics who stop
drinking often experience
dream disturbances and
nightmares.
If you experience frequent
nightmares that aren't linked
to medication use, counseling
may help. The most common
approach is a type of behav-
ioral therapy known as desen-
sitization. In this therapy, you will be asked to
recall the details of your nightmare and use relax-
ation techniques to overcome your fear. The thera-
pist may guide you through typical dream
sequences. For example, the therapist can help
you imagine confronting or driving off a pursuer.
Psychoanalytic therapy, on the other hand, may
focus on identifying and resolving past and pres-
ent emotional issues that may be playing them-
selves out in your nightmares. I'm a skeptic when
it comes to the value of psychoanalysis in treating
nightmares. I'm not aware of solid research that
demonstrates it is more helpful in reducing them
than behavioral therapy.
• During a sleep terror, the sleeper may let out
a bloodcurdling scream, sit bolt upright, and
attempt to fight or flee. The person may seem con-
fused and agitated. After the spell is over, he or
she is likely to go right back to sleep. Later, he or
she may not remember what happened.
When my sister was in college, she had a room-
mate who, every few nights, in the middle of the
night, suddenly sat upright in bed shouting, "Oh,
oh, oh, my God!" Then she promptly lay down
and fell asleep. She had no memory of this the
next morning. A little uncontrollable, stereotyped
spark had been ignited in her brain.
In any event, if you consistently remember your
nightmares, you're probably not suffering from
sleep terrors.
Medications such as benzodiazepines are some-
times prescribed for sleep terrors. Hypnosis or a
relaxation technique known as guided imagery
may also help.
• If you have sleep-related panic attacks, you
may awaken suddenly because of episodes of
intense panic. You may experience a racing heart-
beat, sweating, trembling, breathlessness, or the
feeling that something terrible is about to happen
— like you are about to die. Anti-anxiety drugs are
often useful for such panic attacks.
The cause of these sleep disorders is a mystery.
They might seem like a trivial mystery, but I don't
think so. What brought on the sleep terrors in my
sister's roommate? Why was it always the same
five words: "Oh, oh, oh, my God!"? I wish we
knew. I think if we did, we'd understand a lot
more about how the brain works.
♦
Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at
Harvard Medical School. To send questions, go to
AskDoctorK.com, or write: Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck
St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.
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