To want to proudly announce my new Christmas arrival?

[LolaTheShowgirl]

Baby Harriet

I'm sorry but

1. she looks blatently like a doll- one of those chucky dolls - those of you who thought she was real - have you seen a baby recently

2. those of you who said she was gorgous/beautiful..... WTF??? I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that but if she was real she definately has a face that only a mother could love

I thought it was a doll but didn't want to say. lol

But its not a baby.

I am having trouble seeing how its any different to a grown man having a lifelike model girlfriend. Looks like one, feels like one...

I can see how well made they are and how much attention to detail goes into them - but not the point.

georideminx - would you honestly have come onto a thread with a pic of a newborn and said :''fuck me, your baby is fugly!!''

I thought it was lola's baby and saw it was a new thread and didn't want to ignore (what I thought was) someone's porud mumma thread...

{guillable and polite, see?]

I'm stunned, I did not think she looked ugly or like a doll, just like a lovely sleeping baby.

I struggle with these dolls, I don't like them and no I do not understand why anyone would have one. I know someone in RL who does not have a baby but treats a toy as her baby. Spends all her money on him, loves him truly loves him but still I struggle. I find it very insulting as it is NOT the same as being a parent.

I had a friend once who liked them

she had lost a baby herself whilst quite far along (pregnant) and spent years ttc, with no luck...she already had a young boy though so not totally tragic, in the same way as if she had never had a child at all

But I think people who have lost babies might be quite vulnerable to these creatures.

It can become totally obsessive

Lola - is your friend ok?

loa- why did your friend want a doll

they are creepy

though very lifelike

I didn't even click on the link! I'm going to stop congratulating people because the two I have been arsed to do havent even been real

My friend is fine. She collects dolls - has loads but mostly porcelain. She always wanted a reborn because they are so life-like and are a 'work of art', as she says. They can also be very valuable and I hope this is something she can pass down onto her children. There would be no way she will treat it like a baby. I think it will sit with the rest of her collection. She has no pyschological reason to have one, as her 2 young children keep her busy enough. I think she wanted one just for the above reasons, and lets not forget that most of these reborns are one of a kind. You won't find another one the same in the entire world!

Oh damn Bronze, I thought my thread was original lol

I didn't believe this as soon as I saw the poster name.

nab3 you make me

reborns are one of a kind, just as children are (APART FROM TWINS/TRIPELTS)