Good point about knives, Bec - we live in a very English village (seriously, we could be in Midsummer Murders if we were a bit further north - though that's not exactly an advert for why children can be trusted with weapons!) so it doesn't really bother me from that angle.

It wouldn't bother me seeing a child BF a doll, espech as I wouldn't know about the moving mouth, but to see them do that to a baby would bother me. As for feeding, I'm the only person who feeds my baby. DH has tried to give DS a bottle (EBM and formula) but DS won't have it; then again, he wasn't like this in the early days but he now knows food doesn't come from Daddy. Even when hungry DS won't accept a bottle from Daddy, I need to calm him down with the breast before he'll even take a bottle from me if we try it. I wouldn't be keen on anyone else BFing my baby, but then I am quite posessive about some things. Of course I don't want to see a baby scream in distress, but that's why I rarely go anywhere without DS.

And I would be mad if someone offered DS a dummy as I hate those things! They're so often misused that I won't have it. Fingers... you don't get food from fingers so that's OK. You do get food from breasts so it's not; but then DS won't suckle at an empty breast, he screams and screams, so I guess that's part of the reason I wouldn't do it.

Wonder if the doll-feeding feels anything like a baby feeding? Does anyone know or want to do that experiment?