Do you think GD starts at a young age

My dd is pretty disappointed she's getting a brother. She still talks about a baby sister, and I really think she doesn't quite believe it's a boy. I was the same way, and I also got a brother, and we were never close (there were other issues involved, but it started when I wanted a sister and didn't get one). I do think socialization has something to do with it, but I also have known many women who've wanted boys.

I think its how you bring up your chilren too if they see that having a boy s such a disappointment then they will believe that having a boy is a disappointment. I was a little disappointed with having another DS but i have never shown it in front of my 3 year old.
Plus as a PP said some girls think boys have cooties. MissKylie you DD might not have GD when she grows up just because she is pink things this and girly stuff that doesn't mean she will never want a son. My friend was the biggest diva in the world and has a DS and DD and says that she loves being a boy mum. So just because she loves pink doen't mean she wil hate blue. Maybe when she grows up you will have to sit her down and explain what GD is. My mum was a girly girl and never wanted any kids ha ha ha

Oh dear, I have just bought my friends little girl a boy doll for christmas, I hope she likes it.

Saying that, you could buy either the girl baby or boy baby and I thought the boy one was better but all of the accessories were pink. I wanted to get her the bed for her birthday but it is full of pink frills. I will have to make a blue set to go in it.

I never wanted a boy doll growing up, I only had girls butI am glad I did, at least got to dress my dolls in nice dresses because I have only been able to dress my 4 boys in blue

Maybe it does for some women, but never once for me. I think I looked upon

babies as children in general, and when I played with dolls I also loved to dress up

stuffed animals (!), mini-trolls and cabbage dolls so I do not see a pattern (as in

that I would want a stuffed-animal baby ). But I can see other things that may lead

to GD for moms of all boys; like the anticipation that mothers should do certain things

with their daughters (and fathers with their sons) - we get that message all over the years

while growing up so it is no surprise that we think of this as a "necessity" when we are

grown-ups. I must say that pregnant barbie doll surprised me! When I played with barbie

it was just very innocent and if we played that she had babies, our imagination was enough

to make up for the pregnancy details LOL

 I think they could create them and they would not be bought. There has to be a market for it. And honestly I for one do not want my little girls playing with a penis. There are male baby dolls out there, we have some and my girls don't mind them at all, but they are not anatomically correct either. There is an anatomically correct Baby Alive out there and my girls have seen it, they made quite the giggling big deal out of it, and they are very aware of boy/girl parts so its not like they didn't know. However I think its a great product for boys who want a doll, which I think is good for boys, It would seem wierd to them that their doll didn't match their parts. However contrary wise, where do you draw the line I mean do you want a Ken Doll to have a penis?!?! Then your child is playing with a grown mans penis, I don't think thats a good idea. 

Its hard to say Pixie97 where you would draw the line but i would have no problem giving my daughter a doll with boy parts. I had a doll with boy parts and yes i had a right ol giggle at the little suprise under his nappy but the novelty wears off and he became "my baby" not my doll with a penis. My parents on the other hand never bought me a Ken doll i assume so i couldn't make my barbie get frisky with him not that i really would have known how it all happened. I worked my way round that dilema and made all my barbies lesbians ha ha ha except baywatch barbie who married Chucky (that evil doll). But back to the PP i dont really see a problem with my daughter having a baby with a penis i mean how often wil the baby be naked and our little girl maternal instincts kick in and we feed our little boys and push then around in the pram. I dont know i guess differant strokes for differant folks i suppose.

I was thinking just this as well - were do you draw the line LOL

If some baby girl dolls have a vagina, would it be inappropriate for yourDD to play

with that doll? The body parts are just natural, and even if a doll has not have them

made visual, children can always play KWIM? I still rem how me and my friends

played that barbie had intercourse with the Ken doll (back in the 1980_ies  -LOL)

but then I was a pre-teen, and before that I didnt even think about diff genitals ;-)

Portia West:

I was thinking just this as well - were do you draw the line LOL

If some baby girl dolls have a vagina, would it be inappropriate for yourDD to play

with that doll? The body parts are just natural, and even if a doll has not have them

made visual, children can always play KWIM? I still rem how me and my friends

played that barbie had intercourse with the Ken doll (back in the 1980_ies  -LOL)

but then I was a pre-teen, and before that I didnt even think about diff genitals ;-)

Right - little kids dont really think about the private parts that much do they?  I imagine that is why most baby dolls I have ever seen dont have genitalia - I thought they were more of a rarity - children's toys needn't be so "accurate"

 Right! Even most girl dolls are not anatomically correct! I mean, they are just a flat spot, but its just deemed a girls spot bcz boys have more down there, it doesn't exactly look like a vagina either. I have to agree that children's toy's needn't be so accurate!