🧑‍🍼

Person Feeding Baby Emoji 🧑‍🍼

What 🧑‍🍼 means

This gender-neutral person cradles a baby in their arms, feeding them while looking down with a warm smile. This is a new addition to the emoji list.

The 🧑‍🍼 Person Feeding Baby emoji refers to any person bottle-feeding a baby, irrespective of gender and sex. Since this is not the primary nurturer, this emoji can signify secondary care, affection, family, warmth, and love.

How and when to use it

If there's been a birth in the family and it's your turn to feed the baby and look after him/her, you can send 🧑‍🍼 while telling your buddies that you're busy and the emoji would explain the reason.
You can use 🧑‍🍼 while posting pictures of you feeding your child, a niece/nephew, anyone. You can use this emoji even while posting social media stories/tweets of the same.
🧑‍🍼 can also be used in congratulatory messages to someone upon having a baby.
If you're posting social media stories or directly messaging someone about the best nutritional supplement for new mothers, you can use 🧑‍🍼 in that context, along with the 🤱 Breastfeeding emoji, if you wish.
🧑‍🍼 can be used even in the contexts of feeding baby animals, like a pet puppy, a kitten, etc.
The gender-neutral element in the 🧑‍🍼 emoji gives the character a certain edge over societal prejudices. It can be used to describe or refer to anyone who feeds and nurtures a baby, and not the mother alone.

Other Names

🧑‍🍼 Gender-Neutral Person Feeding Baby
🧑‍🍼 Bottle Feeding
🧑‍🍼 Nurturing
🧑‍🍼 Bottle-Feed
🧑‍🍼 Caretaker
🧑‍🍼 Nourisher
🧑‍🍼 Caregiver
🧑‍🍼 Secondary Caregiver
🧑‍🍼 Feeding Baby Animals
🧑‍🍼 Nurturer

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-role
Codepoints: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F37C
Emoji version: Emoji 13.0
Shortcodes: :person_feeding_baby: Slack · Discord
Keywords: baby, feed, feeding, nanny, newborn, nursing, parent
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.