The $130 Doll That Gives Birth, With Placenta

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
1 min readDec 14, 2010

At first I was startled by the MamAmor dolls, “handcrafted birthing and breastfeeding dolls” made by a doula and her four friends (if you’re on the homepage, click the picture to see in full), but then they’re just so soft and smiley, and why shouldn’t kids know where babies come out of, and which sacs and tubes are attached to them when they do. (Although $130 is … maybe a little unreasonable for something a child will probably ruin by violently yanking a baby into and out of repeatedly. OK, sorry, also, oh my god, for that.)

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com