To wash baby in the machine?

[Pluckedpencil]

'Baby' is dd's favourite doll. She is grey with dirt as dd believes naked is the way all babies want to be. She is the plastic headed, soft bodied kind. If I bung her in a low wash in a pillowcase, will bad things happen? She has moving eyelids too. Is it bad JuJu?

MrsSchadenfreude

I'm feeling particularly evil today - I've just suggested various crimes to be committed against the neighbour with the wind chimes on another thread.

I like the idea of the blindfold/DD seeing a headless doll on this thread!

mwahahahahah

My niece has lots of them dolls, they're all washed at 60 on a weekly basis with her teddies and are all fine. My niece also prefers naked dolls

@1moremum I love how cheerful Paddington looks in both pictures, like it was all a wonderful adventure in the mud and oh how wonderful it is to be clean again

c'mon OP.....how is Baby??

Even in my washer she could have been through a 90degree2hr45m maintenance wash by now

and be braced for the trepanning to release the water from her brain already!

I've never washed a doll in machine but I wash teddies all the time, they go inside a pillow case and I've never had a problem. Even washed DH childhood bear and it survived

Baby had an adventure to a dirty farm where about 10 cats live last night for a new year's party so she is definitely going in the wash today. In fact I'm tempted to throw in the kids having seen the state of that place. Just sat here a bit hungover trying to decide on the blindfold method for the washer. No way am I dealing with buckets of oxyclean today. Bleugh.

My baby doll developed a squint in her eye after the washing machine adventure. Hannah was never the same 😂

When I was little I had a doll as you describe and my Mum put it in the washing machine. Her blinkity eyes were never the same again.

Legit only clicked on this to see if someone was indeed mad enough to ask this for a real child, because it's the annual troll-thread period for New Years.

Am still not disappointed.

Before. I think I will just do baby in the washer. The other bigger one is my childhood dolly who is coming apart at the seams. I would be far more distressed than dd if harm came to her...!

Baby's not that bad OP! She's not filthy anyway.

It's not going well...

Well that was fun! While I washed my dolly, dd decided she needed to give her other little hard doll a bath. Only as it started to say 'mamma' did I see the flaw in this plan. Cue frantic dismemberment and drying. Then out of a morbid curiosity I tried to take the head off my doll to dry inside. I found what must be a 1980s needle in there. Then as I tried to lever it back on with a blunt knife I managed to cut myself, so now bleeding profusely while dh rams head back on doll. Let's hope baby survives the wash.

You know, this sounds like the prelude to a horror film where the doll is possessed, and you just washed it and well in doing so you have released a demon or the like.

Just toasting on the stove now...still grey!

You're really pushing it adding heat to the equation. If they suddenly animate and start wailing, RUN.

dd2 had a nice fluffy blanket when she was a baby. It got caught up in a hot wash and turned into the texture of a tea towel. It went - goes - everywhere with her and is absolutely filthy and stinks. It has shredded over the years and shed bits so is now about the size of said tea towel. my mother used to have to sew various rips and tears in Blankie to keep him going. I was forbidden from washing him as it changed the smell, although I used to do it now and again. I haven't been able to wash Blankie in years because......DD is 24 now and Blankie lives with her and her BF!!!!. He has been to university and is off to America in January. I'm sure customs will seize him as a bacterial threat to national security.

Dolls give me the creeps. Definitely should not have read this thread!

Don't turn the stove on.... they'll melt!

Even more trauma for dd

Doll hospitals do still exist i sent an old teddy (who i love ) to the hospital he had his ear sewn up and new eyes. He went in a shoebox with holes in so he could breath.

ooh do be careful, I set some clove oranges to dry on top of the range once, completely forgot about them, dh left the heating on all night as it was cold and they were like little black clove studded knobs of coal by morning.

In the end I spray painted them silver, and they looked good, but really don't imagine turning Dolly into a meltyfaced cyberman-alike with that technique is going to end well for you or dd!

Baby may still be grey - but you can now declare it clean dirt and forget about it 😄

It went ok but I can't say I am relishing the idea of repeating the experience. It may have be a biannual event!

Can you buy another one and replace?

Can you read her care label?