{"id":2102,"date":"2021-08-20T17:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strong-wp.cloud.fruitionqa.com\/toys\/baby-doll\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:10:07","slug":"baby-doll","status":"publish","type":"toys","link":"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/toys\/baby-doll\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Doll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2021\/08\/baby-doll-square.jpg\" alt=\"Baby Doll\" width=\"310\" height=\"310\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inducted Year: 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crying, cooing, sleeping, eating, drinking, and wetting. What aspiring mom (or dad) doesn\u2019t want a lifelike baby doll with all those features? But before the first baby doll appeared in the mid-1800s, girls were limited to companion-style dolls or elaborate fashion dolls\u2014neither suited to cradling or cuddling. Unlike companion dolls, with which children play tea party and dress-up, baby dolls have a specific function in imaginative play. Children primarily treat baby dolls as they would infants\u2014they are toted around in strollers, fed from high chairs, and rocked to sleep like newborns.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a doll that looks like a baby is no easy task. Since the mid-19th century, doll manufacturers have worked to produce dolls that look and act like infants. In 1922, doll designers reached a new level of realism with the Bye-Lo baby, a doll crafted to look like a three-day-old newborn. The 1930s saw the proliferation of drink and wet dolls such as Betsy-Wetsy and the Dy-Dee doll. Nowadays, baby dolls come with an array of functions that allow them to eat, crawl, play peek-a-boo, and even respond to a child\u2019s voice. Every baby doll\u2014from the simplest version to the most technologically advanced\u2014serves a special function in cultivating nurturing and parental roles in children, while promoting open-ended active play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2021\/08\/baby-doll.png\" alt=\"Baby Doll artifacts\" width=\"600\" height=\"207\"><\/p>\n<p>Factoyd: Baby dolls first appeared in the early 1900s and reflected a new kind of doll play that mimicked the care and nurturing of infants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Inducted Year: 2008<\/strong><br \/>\nCrying, cooing, sleeping, eating, drinking, and wetting. 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