There is also the option of the Care and Play Set, which includes a choice of doll and items with the meet outfit as the Beautiful Blooms Pajamas. Bitty Babies were given explicit numbers online (they had already been numbered at stores for some time).

The meet outfit was changed to selecting from a set of bodysuit-and-tights sleepers in three available color options: Pretty Pink, Soft Blue, or Cloud Gray. Notably, the line's lowest recommended age was brought down to eighteen months, though some items remained at suggested for three years or older. In 2021, a revamp was done to the Bitty Baby line. A red-haired, hazel-eyed doll was released, leaving the available number at six.

(The song download was later removed.) Six of the dolls were retired: dark brown hair with blue eyes red hair with blue-grey eyes the medium skinned 'African American' blonde hair with brown eyes dark brown hair with green eyes and blond hair with green eyes. Later that year, a change in meet outfits was made, offering three options a new doll purchase also came with a song download. The cost lowered back to $60 from $80 because of the removal of the book bundled with the doll. In 2015, Bitty Baby dolls no longer came with the book by default, although the book remained available. Bitty Baby is also less of a character and more of a doll and companion to a younger child in the targeted age range. Various soft, brightly colored stuffed animals for Bitty were released as well, essentially replacing Bitty Bear the stuffed animals are targeted towards the purchaser and not the doll. Added were a brown-haired, green-eyed doll a blonde-haired, green-eyed doll a blonde-haired, brown-eyed doll and a medium skinned 'African American' doll. The line was expanded to include eleven dolls in total (not including the retired doll), which were updated molds for older dolls. This led to a cost raise of $80, a significant price rise from the $55 the dolls had been previously. In 2013, the line was revamped Bitty Bear was removed from the line and replaced with a plush 'Wishing Star.' Full picture books were released as separate purchases and dolls came with a copy of Bitty Baby and Me (which was also available separately). The blonde-haired, grey-eyed doll was retired.īitty Baby in the Cuddly Star Sleeper with the Wishing Star and the white version of Bitty Baby and Me. In 2011, three new dolls were introduced, a brown-haired, blue-eyed doll a red-haired, blue/gray-eyed doll and a blonde-haired, blue-eyed doll. Outfits would come with toys or accessories, but not always items for Bitty Bear. In 2007, extra items for Bitty Bear began to be phased out of the outfits. In 2000 when Mattel took over, Bitty Babies received the harder eyelashes that became standard.

The racial designations were removed from the dolls they were now marketed by their skin tones like the American Girl of Today.

She came with Bitty Bear, who starred in the small books that came with Bitty and her outfits. Bitty Baby was now marketed and displayed as a baby girl. With the release of Bitty Baby in 1995, gone was the marketing of the doll as being either gender. Clothes were sold for both presented genders, as well. Our New Baby was the predecessor to Bitty Baby and was marketed as a baby doll that could be a boy or girl. History Our New Baby Main article: Our New Baby

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