Hi, Sometimes I'm reading these wonderful messages in LACTNET and I'm anxious to share our experience, but the language barrier is hard and I give up. But, I loved these depoiments on children and dolls. I have a little girl (8 years old) and she always breastfed her dolls. Unfortunately this is very rare in Brasil. Almost all dolls have bottles and usually children "give bottles" to their " babies". We support a breastfeeding group of very poor women, we were worried looking for a way to help to get better their lives, meanwhile they promote breastfeeding in the community. We realize that some of them are needlewomen (I don't know if is correct this word), so, we had a good idea: they could to produce dolls that "give natural birth and breastfeed". This is a very interesting experience, because, the women could increase their family income and at the same time, they are promoting breastfeeding among the children (the dolls are used as educational material for teachers, as well.) I think that was a criative manner we found to have another kind of dolls to our children, and not just "bottlefeeding dolls". Denise Arcoverde Grupo Origem WABA Brasil Rede IBFAN