👨‍🍼

Man Feeding Baby Emoji 👨‍🍼

What 👨‍🍼 means

A chest-length portrayal of a man holding a baby in his arms, while looking at the infant with a warm and affectionate face and feeding him/her with the baby bottle.

The 👨‍🍼 Man Feeding Baby emoji refers to any man who would feed a newborn, it can be the father, a close family, a close friend, anyone (a man, of course). It signifies fatherly affection, warmth, love, and nourishment.

A very new addition to the emoji list 👨‍🍼 is yet to be available on all platforms. It would be soon available in the designated skin tones on supported platforms as well.

How and when to use it

If you recently had a baby and you're feeding him/her while the baby momma rests, you can use 👨‍🍼 either while posting about what you're doing or while directly messaging your buddies about it.
The 👨‍🍼 emoji signifies the much-needed paternal love, care, and fatherly involvement with the baby. It helps to break stereotypes and destroys the patriarchal notion of the woman doing all the work (yay).
Apart from just feeding the baby, 👨‍🍼 can also signify fatherly duties towards his newborn. It can be diaper changing, showering, putting the baby to sleep, etc.
👨‍🍼 can also refer to a manny (a male nanny).
You can also use 👨‍🍼 in contexts of equality, equal parental responsibilities, and even while talking or posting about paternity leaves or anything paternity-related.
👨‍🍼 can be used while congratulating a new dad too, like "Congratulations! Welcome to the club 👨‍🍼". You can also couple this emoji with other expressive emojis or any other emoji(s) that you like.

Other Names

👨‍🍼 Man Feeding a Baby
👨‍🍼 Paternal Care
👨‍🍼 Father's Duties
👨‍🍼 Paternal Nurturing
👨‍🍼 Nourishment
👨‍🍼 Fatherhood
👨‍🍼 Manny
👨‍🍼 Male Nanny
👨‍🍼 Paternity
👨‍🍼 New Dad

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-role
Codepoints: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F37C
Emoji version: Emoji 13.0
Shortcodes: :man_feeding_baby: Slack · Discord
Keywords: baby, dad, father, feed, feeding, man, nanny, newborn, nursing
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.