Collections are one thing. Treating a doll like a real baby to the extent of buying a car seat and clothes and taking it for walks is a bit much.

Yes, Doodle bug 7, I think she has issues. But, if this helps her come to grips with them then it's fairly harmless.....unless she starts to actually believe they are real.

(excitedly jumping up and down) "Doodlebug7, are those 2 Maltese babies in the corner of your siggy???"

Kitty:
I was watching BBCA on my cable the other day and they had a special on woman who ADOPT babies (dolls).

LIFELIKE BABY DOLLS.

They got the layette, the strollers, the whole room of baby furniture. This documentary featured a mother and a daughter and the mom wanted to be a grandmother, so they paid THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to this person (they showed her warehouse where she makes the baby dolls). She uses real hair for the head and for the eyelashes. You can't tell the difference.

And then she walks up to the house with this BIG BOX.

When they put the big box on the bed, they carefully opened it up, took out all the wrappings and there was this perfect baby doll that looked so real, well it gave me goosebumps.

Then they got the car seat and prepared to go shopping.

I just looked on youtube and here's a little video on these dolls.

THEY LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THE REAL THING.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojXCoRQTXU

i can uderstand displaying a life like doll in an antique cradle or highchair but stroller and car seat and acting like they are real ... too much

Also up on youtube, there was another video with this woman who collects these reborns.

I could not believe what I was watching. There she was (she's childless by the way), she was holding the reborn and some lady walked up and was going ooh and aah and touching the face and all of a sudden the lady goes "oh she's cold" and the "mom", says "she's a doll".

Well, the look on the other lady's face was priceless.

This woman loves to go out in public, holding this baby and make everyone believe that it's a real baby.

She was interviewed and even the interviewer was not comfortable about this.

I don't understand this. The woman obviously wants to be a mother but she explained that it's too expensive and she's happy the way things are.

If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes, I would never have believed this.

Mel

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Doodle bug7

I have a small doll collection too - mostly porcelain. But I can't see dragging my dolly with me, pretending it's real at my age. I gave that up when I was 7.



On one show, a woman admitted to spending over 40K on dolls and accessories!

Over the edge....

Just think how many disadvantaged real children she could have helped with all that money......so sad.

Ok, ok. I have reborn babies, I take them with me and they have actual baby things like car-seats and swings and cribs and clothes. But that is way TO much money to spend I haven't went over 5K. But some have good reasons and mine are like my children they don't leave my side and I would not sell any of mine no matter what.