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NEW YORK-- A new doll is causing a lot of controversy.
It is a breast-feeding doll whose suckling sounds are prompted by sensors sewn into a halter top at the nipples of girls.
"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 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.
The dolls, with a variety of eight skin tones and facial features, look like many other dolls. That is, until children put on the little top with petal appliqués at the nipples. That's where the sensors are located, setting off the suckling noise when the doll's mouth makes contact. It also burps and cries, but those sounds don't require contact.
The dolls aren't cheap at $89 a pop. Lewis, after unsuccessfully peddling them to retailers large and small, now has them listed at half-price on his website in time for the holidays this year.
