Most any child is bound to love the doll's delightful BIG eye's.
Baby Alive says approx 25 phases, by pressing her bracelet.
And approx 10 others which are activated only by her spoon or bottle.
Those phases are particularly about her eating, changing her diaper, etc.
If you loose the spoon and bottle, you loose those phases.
As soon as she's fed she'll need her diaper changed.
She "pee's" and "poop's", in other words -the food and liquid go straight through her.
This is a very messy process that is meant to be educational,
but the clean-up will require adult supervision.
Her hair is soft and curly and is not meant to be washed.
If you get food in her hair you're to wipe it off with a dry cloth.
Nor can she be submerged in water, that would ruin the voice box in her belly.
When Baby Alive is laid down for a nap her eye's close,
and automatically open when she sets up again.
The doll comes dressed in a cute pink and green washable dress, and wearing a diaper.
She has a matching bib and one spare diaper.
She has a bottle, bowl and spoon, and 2 packets of food.
This doll kit is meant for at least three years old and older.
Two AA batteries and instructions are included.
One drawback with this doll kit is that you're suppose to use only Baby Alive doll food.
Hasbro's Baby Alive doll food and diapers super refill pack seems rather pricey at around twenty-four dollars.
This is a high maintenance doll, that is perhaps better suited for a bit older child.
After inspecting the doll from both ends, it's clear that there's simply a channel from the dolls mouth to her bottom.
All thin liquids run straight through.
In addition to Hasbro brand food and diaper's, we intend on improvising.
This isn't rocket science, there shouldn't be any problems.
If all the food is as thin as Hasbro's food,
and your final rinse is completely clear to keep the doll sanitary.
Hasbro instructions mention to not let their food set and get dried out or it may get stuck.
They don't say how to get it un-stuck.
Maybe lots of water to soften and or air blown through would do the trick?
No matter how you choose to feed and cloth the doll,
Baby Alive provides a wonderful pretend world of caring and conversations.
Update; I phoned Hasbro Aug 24,2011 they said you can get replacement spoons and bottles.
They had approx 40,000, and then they'd no longer be available.
Their phone # is on the box, spoon's cost 50 cent's each, and bottle's $1.25 each.
We received the spoons and bottles as stated above on Sept 9, 2011.
Up-date; May 27, 2013, We no longer have the Baby Alive box, (so no ph#)
I'm not sure if spoons/bottles are still available today.
One may wish to contact Hasbro if that's a concern.
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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program We are currently using this doll in a way that it is not intended we are calling it potty doll and showing our granddaughter what the potty is for. We give her the bottle while sitting her on the potty, and magically, potty doll uses the potty chair in a way that can be seen.For those looking for a doll that both eats, drinks, and has to be changed (and tells you when it happens), this one works great. You do have to give her a bottle of water after the food, to rinse her out, and she only comes with one extra diaper and food, so plan on buying more.
She also makes slurping sounds when she eats, which makes things realistic.
Very natural, but with a few features like cleaning a stinky diaper that I'm no too sure I would have enjoyed as a small child.
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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program Let me preface this review with a warning what you see pictured on the order page is not exactly what you get. I thought I was getting a regular looking baby doll for my granddaughter and then it arrived. The head on this doll is HUGE. I mean HUGE. I felt it was creepy the head seems a lot bigger than the body. However, the five year old granddaughter thinks it is very cute. Beauty in the eye of the beholder, I guess.The doll, once you get past the freaky head size, has curly fake hair not molded plastic like a lot of the Baby Alive series of dolls have. The doll sits well in spite of the head size (go figure). The eyes of the doll close when laid down and open when sitting up. The cool part of the doll is the talking.
You turn the doll on (after inserting two batteries) with a switch on the back. Then the Mommy is required to press the button on the doll's wristband to activate the speech. It has 30 phrases, but we haven't heard them all yet. After sitting for awhile the doll is silent.
If you are feeding the doll the supplied food or giving it the bottle, the doll will make noises like sucking and slurping. The bottle and spoon that come with it must be necessary because the granddaughter couldn't get any of her other toy bottles and spoons to make the doll talk/suck.
The food comes out as advertised and changing diapers is fun for her. You have to follow the directions to clean the doll out, but since it's going to live here I will probably be the one to do that so it gets put away correctly after each use. (I remember old eating/pooping dolls from 30 years ago growing mold when they weren't properly cared for and I plan to avoid that with this one.)
I have no idea yet what replacement diapers and food will cost, but hopefully it won't be much. So far she is having so much fun playing with it that I haven't thought much about that yet.
She seems to really like it even if I think it's head is weird. Recommended by a five-year old for lots of fun.
