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YABVU

It's absolutely none of your business what she does with an item she now owns.

She's paid you the money so once she picks up the pram it's got nothing to do with you what happens to it. If she wants to put it into her garden and grow plants in it, or give it to the local children to make a go-kart out of, it's her business.

I can't understand people who get attached to inanimate objects. I really can't. For this reason I also think that the reborn dolls are totally bizarre and yes they do freak me out too!

I'd be creeped out by it too, but once she's won the auction, there's not a lot you can do. Has she been? Did she bring it?

See i would love a living dead doll, i find them fascinating.

Can't have one as they would freak out DH and the DC

YANBU. I would feel the same. When I sell or give away baby kit, I like to imagine another baby getting good use out of it.

I can see that you might be a bit perplexed at the waste, given that your pram could be put to good use, but she is paying at the end of the day and I would let it go! When I got married, I bought a lovely ivory basque, but didn't wear it as I lost a surprising amount of weight. I sold it and envisaged it going to a bride. It was picked up by a guy who told me very openly he was buying it for himself as he liked to dress up!

What Worra said. YABU.

Its an incorrect assumption that its only the women who have lost a child or who are unable to have children who have these dolls though. I'd quite like one, although I wouldn't want to spend that kind of money on one.

Imagine the pram vs wheelchair on bus thread if the pram was inhabited by a reborn

And why "reborn"? They weren't born in the first place.

And, yes, I also wanted my pass-me-downs to be well-loved and appreciated but they seldom are, even by real babies, so YAB(understandably)U

And [arf] at delphine How romantic - NOT!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1669400-AIBU-to-be-quietly-pissed-off-with-a-woman-taking-up-a-buggy-space-with-her-reborn-doll

enjoy maryz

I have jumped the tread, so it might have moved on, but based on your OP

I'm annoyed cos I've scrubbed the blasted thing thinking a human baby was going in it and I feel odd about the doll thing

Whether she is putting a baby, a doll or a fecking rabbit with a wooden leg in the pram - you have a duty to sell it as fit for purpose can CLEAN

You probably are being very unreasonable, but I would feel exactly the same.

Well grumbling its true I have read about women who have lost their babies have dolls made in their image so that it provides a comfort to them. Hw is it offensive just because you have never heard if it. Why don't you tell these women your views and see how far you go!

they are bloody nuts if you ask me yadnbu!

You are kidding McNewPants .

How did I miss that?

I'm usually on all the buggy/bus/p&cparking threads, I lurve them

<off to seethe read>

I am not going to refuse to hand it over. She won it fair and square. I've now arranged to meet her at the bus station so I'm not all bad.

It was clean anyway but I miltoned all the hard bits too because I thought I should.

I have lost a baby (Dd's twin) so I think it's just going to be weird for me to think that a silicone doll gets to go in it. Not a real child.

I think reborn dolls are one thing but find ones with oxygen, NG tubes and various medical things a bit :/

I suppose it's horses for courses if these dolls help the women in whatever way who are we to judge. They are not harming anybody but I can understand why you feel that way. But I guess you put your feelings aside.