Dolls Replace Lost Babies

[Fairy Dust]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1252756,00.html

http://www.reborn-baby.com/

 

[TinkerTracy]

Wow I don't know what I think about that. I guess if it helps, then great?

 

[AprilShowers]

This isn't something I would recommend to my customers. I would think it would prolong the grieving process.
Just yesterday I had a mother in here who delivered a stillborn baby. She was a wreck. My heart broke for this poor mother. Having a baby doll that looked like her baby, in my opinion would just be too much.

Speaking from my personal experience, after I lost my baby I would NOT wanted this to have been offered to me.

 

[Virgo10]

I'm not sure how I feel about that but the dolls on their website are amazing.

 

[Becky2005]

From the looks of the FAQ, these dolls didn't start out to be used in such a manner.

One of the questions is if the doll is OK for kids with the answer of they are meant for adult collectors but would be OK for an older child.

Maybe I'm reading it wrong but it sounds like it started out similar to the "Just like Me" dolls but to make a more authentic looking baby doll.

Then someone sent in a picture to have one done of their deceased child & that is how that came about.

It wouldn't be something I would want but if it helps the parents, I don't see why not.

 

[WonderfulDreamer2]

I agree with the posters saying this would only prolong the grieving process. I really can't see how that can be a healthy way of dealing with a loss. Personally, I find it kind of grusome.

 

[mickeyboat]

I agree with the posters saying this would only prolong the grieving process. I really can't see how that can be a healthy way of dealing with a loss. Personally, I find it kind of grusome.

Me too. But there may be some people who feel something like this might help with their grieving. I know when my SIL lost a baby in utero at 6 months, the hospital staff took pictures of the baby, and gave them to her in a sealed envelope. She looked at them some time later, and said it really helped her grieve. I also remember a photography studio/group who photographs people with their very sick or deceased babies - the photos were really touching.

Denae

 

[sajetto]

This is just too strange IMO. I haven't ever had any children, but I've got a strong feeling that I wouldn't want a constant reminder of my loss.

 

[WonderfulDreamer2]

Me too. But there may be some people who feel something like this might help with their grieving. I know when my SIL lost a baby in utero at 6 months, the hospital staff took pictures of the baby, and gave them to her in a sealed envelope. She looked at them some time later, and said it really helped her grieve. I also remember a photography studio/group who photographs people with their very sick or deceased babies - the photos were really touching.

Denae

Some of these things I can understand. I worked Labor and Delivery for several years. We would take photos, locks of hair, hand and feet prints, save the stocking cap and blanket the baby was wrapped in....all mementos for the parents when they felt ready. Some wanted the items right away, some came back a few years later....some never at all. But a doll made to look like the deceased baby seems it would make it too easy to cross that line between reality and fantasy and make it easier for the mom to pretend that the baby were still alive....something so life like that they could suspend the fact that the baby was no longer there. It just doesn't seem healthy.

 

[KristiKelly]

Wow, those dolls are amazing. I don't know if I would want one if I was grieving a child. I would love to have one for each of my children of what they looked liked as a newborn, though.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

Wow, those dolls are amazing. I don't know if I would want one if I was grieving a child. I would love to have one for each of my children of what they looked liked as a newborn, though.

Oooh, I like that idea!

I wouldn't want one if I lost a child though. I think it would just prolong the grieving process as others have stated.

 

[1Prince2Princesses]

What a terrible idea! I can't see how that would be conducive to the healing process.

I would, however, also like to get dolls made of my living children. That would be really cool.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

wow, i really don't like the idea at all.
HOWEVER i do like the idea of getting them to remember your live children, very cute

 

[Maggimus]

I agree with Becky2005

Did the owner of the site really intend to make them for that reason?

Or is that news article just stating that some people use her dolls for that reason?

Seems to me like she makes them for those paying customers-- and began doing it, and still does for those who want to make baby dolls who look more true to life (like their own babies). Kind of like how American Doll Dolls can be made to look like you. There are always some out there who choose to interpret work differently-- it seems to me as though those who do choose to have them made for other purposes the article is written about them. Not so sure that her business is based around that though.

None-the-less, that lady is VERY tallented!! Those babies look so real...

 

[Steffi]

I don't think that would be a healthy way to get through the grieving process at all. I can just imagine a women's channel movie about something like that, where a poor lady goes crazy and carries around a doll for years, introducing it as her baby and making her other kids play with it. Okay, I'm getting carried away, but, still...creepy.

I would love to have one for each of my children of what they looked liked as a newborn, though.

I like this idea, though!

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

I don't think that would be a healthy way to get through the grieving process at all. I can just imagine a women's channel movie about something like that, where a poor lady goes crazy and carries around a doll for years, introducing it as her baby and making her other kids play with it. Okay, I'm getting carried away, but, still...creepy.

That's what I pictured too!

 

[TurboKitty]

I think if someone finds some comfort with this, who am I to judge?

 

[JadenLayne]

I collect dolls and no they were not meant for this is the beginning it is something that has stemmed from the reborns. I actually have one that looks like me when I was an infant, my husband, my mother and my son and they are fantastic.

I can't imagine having one for a loss though but to each their own.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Those dolls creep me out. They look way too life like for my tastes.

But to each their own. I didn't like life-like looking oversized babydolls when I was a kid either and the 'water babies' (where you fill up the doll with warm water) really freaked me out.

TOV

 

[Disneyland1084]

This is too creepy if you ask me.