Bloody reborn doll

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My sister has collected dolls for while now and has always gone with ones from around the world. She has recently started on reborn which are hyper real dolls that look like real babies. I find it creepy they but each to their own. She has started wandering about with the fucking doll in a baby pram, I met her for lunch and assumed when she came in with a pram that due was babysitting a friends baby, she doesn't have a baby herself. On closer inspection there is a bloody reborn doll with a bloody dummy in its gob. I couldn't stay when she took the damn thing out to hold and walked away. She said that "reborn community " are used to mockery and why can't I just be happy for her. I told her because she is a grown woman pushing a dolly in a pram and its fucking weird. She wants to bring it to family parties......I can't cope!!!!Thoughts anyone?

I do think they're creepy - uncanny.

However, I think you're being harsh. These reborn dolls are wellknown for helping people through baby loss and infertility issues. Some people have them to help them imagine having a real baby. They are often used as coping mechanisms, or for people who are struggling with their mental health. Instead of ridiculing your sister, why not talk to her about why? If it makes her happy, what's the harm? Is it worth losing your sister over a doll?

Big difference between losing yourself in the construction of something - the ultimate mindfulness - and pretending a lump of rubber is a real baby.

Just wached the first couple of minutes of this 😲 The doll owner/maker opining that when your kids get older 'you don't get the attention anymore' is quite telling about other issues.

What is really bizarre is a woman who has to have ''perfection'' in a baby.... {I won't spoil it for watchers}
The grandmother I did really feel for.. {No one died!} but of them all, the Granny clearly suffered loss.
But a 'breathing' doll is still not her much loved Grandson.
He's probably a man, now...this is an old video.

LARPing! It's like street theatre and is creative and fun.

I think this is ridiculous but another example of indulging attention seeking.

There are a minority of people who perhaps have past trauma for whom whether its support animals or reborn dolls, they are a coping strategy to prevent serious mental breakdowns....then other people who could cope without are taking advantage of this tolerance to indulge attention seeking behaviour.
Whether it's a senior charity executive who needed his mum and his support animal with him to give evidence in court...or reborn dolls.

The fact is if you need these things you are narcissistic.
Even if it were a living pet it would be.

Even if a mother was behaving like that about a real baby, that would be seriously odd.
Think about it. We care for our children because we are worried otherwise harm will cone to them. As they get older yes you might have fun with them....but if you could flick a switch to make them inanimate and you knew they wouldn't be hungry or thirsty or get hurt or miss you or get upset....a normal person would leave them at home rather that take them out in most cases.

a friend who was a mommas girl her mom died and she bought about 14 of these dolls newborn up to about 12 months their on bedroom and lots of clothes

she was so ripped up about her mom this is how she coped with it no childern of her own was 66 years old

My horrible mother had one and lavished far more attention and love on it than she did on her actual (adopted) kids.

Or a wheelchair user.

Do what you want with your doll, is my thought, but take it out of the pram so there's space for actual babies as well as disabled people. I'd be absolutely fucked off if I was told to wait for the next bus because some doll was in a pram and taking up the wheelchair space.

It's absolutely nuts and quite creepy and shouldn't be encouraged. I saw a tv programme about this a few years ago. The folk with these dolls seemed very disturbed mentally.

The people i am looking at now are definitely in need of help. It's terribly exploitative to sell these dolls and I'm quite shocked by family members indulging it tbh.

I can't believe I'm saying this but this video actually made me cry. I had to skip to the end because I thought the lady's grandson had passed away, it turns out he's "only" moved to New Zeland, but there is something so desperately sad about it all. She just misses her grandson so much and thinks that this doll made to look exactly like him will fill the void, when of course it won't.

There is something so wonderful and special about holding a tiny beloved baby, it's one of the most joy inducing things I've ever experienced, I'm sure it's the same for many others. When I'm very sad or stressed I lie in bed and think about hugging my children (they are still little, but sometimes I think of them as babies too), it's soothing in a way that nothing else is. We can't really blame people who are struggling with deep sadness or mental health problems for trying desperately to recreate a very happy memory, even if it's obvious from an outside perspective that it's a resposne to something being very wrong.

I completely disagree with your last sentence. I don't think most normal people would choose to leave their babies at home, what would be the point of having kids if you didn't want to spend time with them?

Lots of people like this on tiktok. I personally find it off but each to their own. I find a lot of the women I come across have suffered infertility/baby loss/miscarriages and use these reborn dolls as a way of coping. I have one woman who keeps popping up on my FYP on TikTok, she takes the baby out, makes real formula for it, changes it, does the whole 'spend the day with me and my baby'. I myself have suffered 4 losses and personally could never do this.. but these women clearly have MH problems and it's quite sad x

Sorry for your losses x

@NewHomeStress I assure you it is real. I chose the username to fit in with the theme of my post and people post at aaaaaaalll times on here.

Can't disagree with the poster who saidbi sounded angry.....yes I do. I get messages asking me to wish happy birthday to the dolls and she refers to me as their Auntie. Its the latest thing in a long line of other things designed to get attention. There are pictures of it on Facebook with people saying congrats as they think is real.

I can’t be the only person who doesn’t think they look realistic? They look like weird gremlin aliens to me.

Your embarrassment does not trump your sister’s right to do as she pleases OP, however odd you find it.

If my sister did this it’d be extremely out of character so I’d have a gentle chat with her to check all ok, rather than put myself first by walking away.

Agree with this.

She's harming nobody, and obviously finds it enjoyable/therapeutic.

It might actually be hurting the sister if she has mental health problems or trauma that is going unaddressed. It might also hurt the family if they are forced to play along with what is very worrying behaviour.

Not as annoying as a real baby. You won’t have to buy it presents. If you have to babysit it you can shove it in its box and just carry on.
It seems ideal.

😮That is just amazingly awful. As a coping mechanism for loss I can sort of understand it ( I don't get the comparison to lego- I love lego). But this is just bizzare.

I agree, it does sound mental. BUT I had a very realistic doll as a child. My parents recently moved house and removed it from their attic and gave it to me.

I sat in my living room and held it in my arms and felt actual maternal love for it. I don't have kids and have never experienced this before. It freaked me out. I didn't want to put it back in the loft as it felt cruel but I did as I can distinguish it's just a doll.

But there is a very strange, visceral reaction that comes from holding a life like baby.

@ManateeFair that image is hilarious 😂