Man Feeding Baby 👨‍🍼

A man holds a baby while bottle-feeding, captured in a moment of paternal care and bonding. The design mirrors the woman-feeding-baby emoji but centers a male caregiver, showing a father, step-parent, or male guardian tending to an infant's needs.

This portrays modern fatherhood and active parental involvement. People use it when discussing dads taking on primary caregiving roles, parental leave, shared parenting responsibilities, and the growing cultural shift toward more involved fathers. It's equally valuable for depicting grandfathers, uncles, male nannies, or any male caregiver in a child's life.

The emoji helps normalize men in nurturing roles and counters outdated stereotypes about childcare being primarily women's work. It appears in conversations about work-life balance, parental expectations, family dynamics, and progressive approaches to raising children where both parents actively participate in feeding and caregiving.

Like its female counterpart, this was introduced as part of Unicode Emoji 13.0 in 2020, built using ZWJ sequences to ensure consistency across platforms. Together with the woman-feeding-baby emoji, it represents a more complete picture of modern parenthood and caregiving diversity.