A Doll That Gives Birth: If Everyone Jumped

Kind of cute

Christmas is fast approaching, and if you’ve still got some last-minute shopping to do, you can find gift guides galore online and in magazines and newspapers to help you come up with some great present ideas. The following product, though, is one we’d suggest skipping as a holiday gift this year. And every other year after this one, for that matter.

Glamour reported via The New York Times last week on a new handmade doll called MamAmour that is pregnant and can give birth – vaginally.

Kind of creepy

We’ve heard of baby dolls that cry, pee and drink from a bottle, but a mom doll that gives birth to a baby doll? That’s certainly a new one. While we’re all for young people understanding child birth and discussing it openly as a natural part of life, these discussions should probably be reserved for those that are not young enough to play with dolls.

MamAmour gives birth through an elastic vaginal opening and comes with a woven umbilical cord and a placenta. The baby doll’s mouth has a snap that corresponds to one on the mom doll’s nipple, so that the new-born can breast-feed.  Just when you thought it couldn’t get ant weirder, right?

The dolls can be custom-made with any skin, hair and eye color, which, along with being handmade, is actually a nice feature.

Here’s what sticks the nail in the coffin for us, though: each MamAmour doll costs $130, with custom dolls starting at $145. Toys “R” Us sells baby dolls for $14.99, and those won’t provoke awkward questions from a child that’s too young to need to know all of the scientific details about birth. Apparently there is a significant shopping audience who disagrees, however: all of the pre-made $130 dolls are sold out through January 2011.






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