Mimijumi Breastfeeding Bottle

Weird Or Genius: Breast-Like Baby Bottles

Posted by: Leonora Epstein Filed in: style
10:10AM, Tuesday December 29th 2009

Certain products are made to simulate real things for quite useful reasons—think Splenda, dildos and Skype video chat. And then there are things that when “brought to life” fall in the realm of just plain scary. That’s what we first thought about these lifelike breast baby bottles by Mimijumi. The “Very Hungry” baby bottle is designed to make suckling babes take to a plastic cap like they would a mother’s teat.

Maybe this would be incredibly useful to get a newborn to take to a bottle ... but maybe create some weird sexual conceptions in the future? (OK, total exaggeration.) So, you tell us—is this lifelike bottle something that sucks you in? Or just plain sucks? [TrendHunter.com]

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danny braciole
wrote on December 29 2009 @ 10:27 am: [report]

Honestly, there will always be disgusting perverts who will sexualize anything and everything resembling a female body part. Sure, this one’s a funny looking feaux-boob, but for anybody who’s babysat a fussy baby cousin who will only shut up when her mom is feeding her, this little contraption could be a godsend.

Just don’t let the perverts near the actual boobs. Or babies.

BlueVibe
wrote on December 29 2009 @ 10:29 am: [report]

I guess it depends on how realistic it is?

I’ve heard—I don’t have kids so I can’t say first-hand—that once babies get used to the bottle they have a hard time transitioning to breasts (say, if Mom has trouble breastfeeding at first) because the nipples don’t feel/work quite the same. If the new nipple was really more lifelike, perhaps it could make that easier, which would be good.

However, if it mostly *looks* more like a breast and primarily makes parents feel like they’re doing something more “natural” for their babies, then it’s more about parental self-back-patting, and probably largely pointless.

lea322
wrote on December 29 2009 @ 10:53 am: [report]

I would think that even people without children would see the benefits of a bottle nipple that more closely simulates a real nipple. This doesn’t seem like rocket science…

unbounded
wrote on December 29 2009 @ 11:09 am: [report]

@lea322: I agree.

Also, if that is a picture of what the bottle nipple/boob looks like…it’s, um, not that much different than any other baby bottle.

_jsw_
wrote on December 29 2009 @ 11:18 am: [report]

Yeah, I’d hate to see more bottles that actually look like breasts. I think it’s ridiculous to try to effectively simulate the real thing. I think it confuses kids into thinking the bottle is, in fact, their mother. That’s why I’m marketing a bottle that uses a straw, not a nipple, and that has bright lights, vibrates, and plays the theme song from Hannah Montana. I think that should avoid the confusion.

Seriously, though, I agree that the more realistic the nipple, the better, and the more it resembles the mother’s breast, the better.

_jsw_
wrote on December 29 2009 @ 11:22 am: [report]

@unbounded: It’s been several years since I’ve needed to buy baby bottles (I finally decided to use cups like other adults), but the difference seems to be that the nipple is effectively the entire top of the bottle as opposed to a nipple that’s inside a hard plastic ring. The top is, in effect, all “nipple/breast” which makes it more realistic.

I seriously wonder why there aren’t kits to do breast molds to make nipple tops that are exactly like the mother’s. I bet, even if they didn’t work, the kit would sell well.

And not just to mothers.

impoddity
wrote on December 29 2009 @ 09:10 pm: [report]

I say go for it. Hopefully without the plastic lid, it will be easier to clean and put together . Some of the bottles that are out now (Dr Miracle <—::glares:: ) are like putting together model airplanes; without the one piece, the whole thing malfunctions.