Reborn dolls...I just think they're sad...

[Ember]

What I can't figure out is why anyone would want a newborn doll. Get one a couple of weeks old. They're cute! Newborns are funny looking.

 

[*JoGo*]

I can't stop watching reborn videos on you tube.

I don't understand it at all... Then my sons started fighting and I thought maybe I should've just gotten a reborn?

But really... The lady put her baby dolls in daycare on the cruise? I wonder how the CMs reacted?
I watched some other videos and it seems to be a mother-daughter thing? Or the mothers just don't know what to do and let their adult daughters carry around dolls? If my adult daughter wanted to carry a doll around, I wouldn't be going anywhere with her. Do these mothers not think it's weird?

 

[Halloweenqueen]

Many years ago I was moving from Virginia back to Ohio. My car broke down on a very lonely stretch of the Penn. turnpike. I decided to try to walk to the nearest exit since it was getting dark. (Before cell phones, etc)

I walked a couple of miles before a dark colored sedan pulled over behind me. A woman, around forty got out of the driver's seat and asked if the car she had past was mine and would I like a ride. I thanked her and she walked over to the passenger door and took a car seat out. She placed it in her trunk to make room for me.

When she returned from the rear of the car she had a doll in her arms. She told me to hop in. I got in the car and instantly felt nervous. Guess it was from all the horror movies I watch, but the lady seemed odd. She had the doll on her lap as she drove.

I tried to make small talk with her, but she told me to be quiet because I might wake her babies. I sat there in silence, happy to see an exit sign a few minutes later. She pulled into the first gas station and I literally jumped out. I looked towards the car to thank her and only then did I notice three more car seats in the back full of baby dolls!

 

[Turn the Page]

Many years ago I was moving from Virginia back to Ohio. My car broke down on a very lonely stretch of the Penn. turnpike. I decided to try to walk to the nearest exit since it was getting dark. (Before cell phones, etc)

I walked a couple of miles before a dark colored sedan pulled over behind me. A woman, around forty got out of the driver's seat and asked if the car she had past was mine and would I like a ride. I thanked her and she walked over to the passenger door and took a car seat out. She placed it in her trunk to make room for me.

When she returned from the rear of the car she had a doll in her arms. She told me to hop in. I got in the car and instantly felt nervous. Guess it was from all the horror movies I watch, but the lady seemed odd. She had the doll on her lap as she drove.

I tried to make small talk with her, but she told me to be quiet because I might wake her babies. I sat there in silence, happy to see an exit sign a few minutes later. She pulled into the first gas station and I literally jumped out. I looked towards the car to thank her and only then did I notice three more car seats in the back full of baby dolls!

Weird. Although, I have to say, I'm a little surprised she was sane enough to be willing to take one of her "babies" out of the car seat during a drive on the interstate.

 

[nchulka]

Wow!! That video is so disturbing. I once saw a story about a lady who spent 25,000 on her dogs wedding. I thought she was crazy, but this lady takes the cake. At least a dog is a living thing!

If this lady wants to be around babies so much she could volunteer to rock drug addicted babies or help in a women's shelter. She could take her dolls clothes and accessories and donate them to real babies who could actually use them!

 

[disykat]

Is it terrible that I was judging her parenting? I mean putting them in a regular bed - what if they fall out? And why was she not holding the babies to feed them?

I agree that the video was disturbing.

 

[Lassie Lynne]

I dunno.....kinda odd, but perhaps better the ladies obsess over these dolls then have more destructive behavior.

When I was about 7 I got a baby doll, pretty life like at about three months In those ancient days, there wasn't a lot of toy dolls like that, so finding clothes was hard. My grandma took me to the local department store to the baby section to find a dress and shoes for the doll, which we took with us for size. The salesperson couldn't believe my grandmother was spoiling me by buying a fancy dress for doll!! Another sales lady came over and was very kind and nice and helped me pick out a dress...but I had the feeling we were talked about around the store for days!

 

[bunny]

A friend and his wife delivered a stillborn baby at 42 weeks in October. His wife has become a recluse since then and hasn't ventured out of their house much and has also stopped all communication with us. Yesterday I saw on her Facebook page that she ordered one of these dolls and had it made to look exactly like their baby. They had taken about 50 pictures of the baby after she was born. She has now posted about another 50 pictures of this reborn doll wearing all of her baby's clothes and in different positions. She also posted a picture of herself holding the baby and of her husband cradling it. In the pictures they have the biggest smiles on their faces. That doll looks real. I am afraid she has gone over the edge. It is so strange.

 

[Turn the Page]

A friend and his wife delivered a stillborn baby at 42 weeks in October. His wife has become a recluse since then and hasn't ventured out of their house much and has also stopped all communication with us. Yesterday I saw on her Facebook page that she ordered one of these dolls and had it made to look exactly like their baby. They had taken about 50 pictures of the baby after she was born. She has now posted about another 50 pictures of this reborn doll wearing all of her baby's clothes and in different positions. She also posted a picture of herself holding the baby and of her husband cradling it. In the pictures they have the biggest smiles on their faces. That doll looks real. I am afraid she has gone over the edge. It is so strange.

That is so sad. And scary. I can't imagine losing a child. I sincerely hope she gets some help and can move on with her life.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Some people juggle geese.

 

[wvjules]

Some people juggle geese.

How would one juggle geese? Wouldn't they fly away?

 

[Emteach]

Okay so.... If these dolls are being used for elderly in nursing homes that to me seems like a great resource but everyday folks. I don't know those videos baffled me - I actually had to turn the second one off (gave me the eebie jeebies) when they started playing "Baby Mine" I will never be able to listen to that the same again.
I had dolls growing up (heck I still collect china dolls) so if these are peoples collections I say go for it. But the thing is they aren't real and treating them as if they are, that to me says something is not quite right.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

How would one juggle geese? Wouldn't they fly away?

An excellent question (best posed to someone who juggles geese). I would imagine they are immature geese, unable to fly as yet.

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

An excellent question (best posed to someone who juggles geese). I would imagine they are immature geese, unable to fly as yet.

I'm so confused.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

I'm so confused.

It's a Browncoat saying. If you don't know what a Browncoat is, I'm sorry, you're on your own.

Basically, everybody's got a hobby. Not everyone has to understand why someone likes their chosen hobby.

 

[Scrappy_Tink]

A friend and his wife delivered a stillborn baby at 42 weeks in October. His wife has become a recluse since then and hasn't ventured out of their house much and has also stopped all communication with us. Yesterday I saw on her Facebook page that she ordered one of these dolls and had it made to look exactly like their baby. They had taken about 50 pictures of the baby after she was born. She has now posted about another 50 pictures of this reborn doll wearing all of her baby's clothes and in different positions. She also posted a picture of herself holding the baby and of her husband cradling it. In the pictures they have the biggest smiles on their faces. That doll looks real. I am afraid she has gone over the edge. It is so strange.

That's so sad...to me that'd be like stuffing your dog when it dies and keeping it.

I probably wouldn't be a CM for too long if I was in the nursery with those "babies"...I'd have a bunch of pics on my IPhone, dangling one over the railing, giving it a Turkey Leg, or other silly things.

 

[donaldlovesdaisy]

Sad topic and while it is a little weird but I am sure these women only have the best intentions.

 

[Tiggeroo]

I think it's a fine line between obsessing over a fake baby doll and stealing a real baby. I think people like this don't completely deal in reality.

 

[branv]

A cousin of mine had this kind of experience with her MIL (a woman in her upper 50's, no dementia). She and her DH hadn't had children yet, and MIL was pretty forceful on the matter. Her DH had a brother and sister who were not yet married, so they got the brunt of it. They went to visit one weekend, and found that the front room had been turned into a nursery. That's when she realized that there were two of those baby dolls "sleeping" in there.

MIL seriously treated this like a real baby -- cuddled it, talked to it, pretended to feed it, put it down for naps. Then she kept trying to get my cousin to hold the baby, saying "Don't you want one of these? Do you want to feed it? Aren't they wonderful in your arms?"

She always suspected there wasn't something right about this woman beyond just the fact that she didn't really like her much. I told her she won on crazy inlaws stories.

 

[DizBelle]

I have heard of them being used for mentally disabled people. It's one way for them to show and express love to something else. In their case, they don't get the option to have kids of their own.

In that same episode, there were older women who did it too, like grandparent age. Either they had a strong rift between their kids to not see any grandkids or they chose not to have kids at all, is just my guess, and these women are trying to create something that wasn't there to begin with.

Re: bolded - barring non-functional parts, what would stop them from having children?