I tend to agree with this statement.
My DD has dolls that come with bottles. The bottles are in the bottom of the toybox somewhere I haven't seen them for months. When she feeds her dolls, she gives them "boobie" or feeds them with a spoon.
Why?
Because that's all she knows from seeing me feed.
She doesn't remember having her bottles, and when she sees me feed Toby she sees him either breastfeeding or eating solids from a spoon.
It's like she doesn't even know what the bottles are for that came with her doll.
I definitely think it's more important for our kids to see us breastfeeding day in day out in terms of normalising it for them, than it is for dolls bottles to be taken away from their play.






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