Reborn Dolls

LJM

my daughter was 10 last december and all she kept on about was wanting one of these, that was untill she saw someone she knows who had one and decided that they were freaky and no longer wanted it. i personally have to agree

LJM

by the way she ended up with a baby annabel (a hell of a lot cheaper) even now at 10 she loves playing with her dolls

laurenjs88

I think they are quite sweet, I don't think i'd own one personally but some of them are very good! I think maybe if something happened to my baby I would get one made, I dont really know I'd probably want one to feel like I was holding her again but I think the realisation that it was only a doll afterwards would make the grief worse... Who knows!!

mrcow

People have them for lots of different reasons.

I don't see the problem with them at all. No one is hurting anyone. There are a lot more bizarre things that people do. I can see how they can help to focus grief or loss of a child and can understand why someone would feel the need to do this. If it works, then where is the harm?

As for the ladies in the "My Fake Baby" documentary, they seemed like the most inoffensive bunch of women ever. I don't think they deserve to be the butt of others' ridicule. We all have our own ways of coping with things.

sock-knitter

i've never liked dolls, always prefered soft toys, and have a few from the bear factory that have clothes, but there is absolutly no way i would take them outdoors, or feed them or whatever lol

sashadesade

mountainofdebt wrote: »

I remember this woman very well because she couldn't have children and was 'using' this doll as a replacement.

What I remember thinking was, was what would happen if she had become pregnant and the baby wasn't perfect? Would the baby end up in a care home.

I thought that too. She went to so much trouble and expense, claimed to have bonded with the 'baby' and grown to love it, but as soon as she realised it wasn't perfect she didn't want it any more. She seemed very obsessed with some kind of idealised perfection. I found it quite disturbing to think what she may be like with a real baby that didn't meet her expectations.

poppyolivia

LJM wrote: »

by the way she ended up with a baby annabel (a hell of a lot cheaper) even now at 10 she loves playing with her dolls

my daughter is like that (she's 10 too)..I swear if she had the money for a reborn doll she prob have a collection!:rotfl:so far she is content with her black doll she calls baby Jesus (she's had it since she was a 3 year old)

I personally don't see the fuss...if you collect them as a hobby..my gosh people collect all sorts eh? But for a grown woman to take it out and feed it etc...thats going too far...they need a wee bitty help maybe.

barbiedoll

I've always been a doll lover (as you can tell by my username!) but all of my old dolls didn't really look like babies, I preferred Barbie, Sindy and Pippa dolls, with their groovy 70's clothes!

I did have one doll which was made from rigid plastic and she had blonde curly hair, I just loved her and can remember proudly pushing her in my old tin dolls pram, I called her Lisa and she was my "baby", ten years later, my younger sister played with her too. But I could never understand the attraction of those realistic "Baby Born" dolls, they are just not pretty! I saw a man in a shop with one once, he was carrying it over his shoulder, it looked just like a real baby from where I was standing. When he swung it down by one leg, I nearly fainted until I realised it was just a doll!! :rotfl:

I do agree with mrcow though, I guess it's a harmless enough hobby. And better than those creepy guys with their Japanese "girlfriend" dolls!

mumcoll

Just recently, a friend of a friend on facebook (yes, I know!) had posted a photo of one of these dolls in her photos. My friend really thought it was a baby and congratulated the person, saying her little girl was beautiful,'like a little doll'. I was embarrassed for her!

Bambywamby

I think the general feeling that they are "creepy" is because these dolls are so realistic, they look like a real baby that is lifeless and therefore dead.

Logic tells us it is just a doll and before you see them you think..."you must be mad for spending that much on a doll but whatever lights your candle," then when you see the pictures of these dolls and they look so real yet so lifeless you are almost horrified.
I think it is natural but irrational fear...iykwim. x