To think Fake babies & their mothers are weird??...

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What the heck??...they are dolls!!

I assume you mean the ones that cry etc? I read about them years ago in a teen magazine where they were being used to teach teenagers about the responsibilities that having a baby entailed. Which I think is a fantastic idea.

Does strike me as a little odd to see adults with them, however, maybe it's a good way of finding out if they are able to cope with a real baby?

No Kaloki these are actual life-like dolls designed to look like babies...and the women are grown and consider themselves to be 'mothers'...not teens...I was just watching a docu on Living TV..

Theyare still used at DD2's collegein the childcare courses. Perhaps some of these adults are taking these courses! If not then it is very weird.

Each to their own, alot of people have 'odd' things they do [watch too much SKY] - like think they are fairies, or wizards, or live their life in the 40's, anyone with a cat ... it's endless. Not watching what I think you are watching, but I feel sorry for people who have a doll as a baby but I have felt such loss I can understand how people can put so much into it all, your needs and feelings are so so strong even without any sort of loss. Odd indeed but harmless enough.

no, the childcare ones are not the same as those creepily realistic "baby" ones

Or do you mean those dolls you get in America which you can order to your own specifications? If so, I saw a programe about that a while back and I just felt very sad for the women who had these. They were obviously either desperate for a child or had other issues.

they probably have some kind of issues maybe the doll helps them with it, harmless enough i guess? they are not hurting anyone else with it although yes it is weird, and they are probably quite sad people really hurting inside to make them need to do that? would feel sorry for them more than anything really
not seen whatever this programme is on sky though

I saw one of these a while back too, a granny had one made up to look like her grandson she didn't see anymore, thought the child was dead and felt sorry for her but you find out later in the program that the boy is 5 and moved somewhere and he thought it was weird!

I saw the prog, one mum had a replica of her baby who had passed away. Another woman had a baby made (they cost a LOT) and used to push her round the park in a Silvercross Pram wearing hundreds of pounds of designer clothes. Always a grieving issue I think, death or inability to have a child.

Not as creepy as those men who have washable life sized girlfriends made though....eeewww

They are all weirdos, and the babies are ugly

captain I think its the same program!...I thought the grandson was dead too but he well alive and living in Australia....she even showed him the doll and the GS said 'thats not a nana...its a doll'

baby..

ok but (without wishing anyone to cotton on to me in rl) what if.....

you have a relative who has had four children, and does childminding (only cares for 2 children now) who carried one of these everywhere.

Imagine how you'd feel seeing this person with a genuine car seat at a school event and peer in thinking they've taken on another child and infact it is the doll - which always gets put in a carseat.

I am an each to there own person too but this behaviour, from this person freaks the hell out of me, and I know I am not the only one - both the children are going to other childminders too soon.

Must be then, loved that she put doll in a car seat and not chucked in a box in the boot! Also noted it was not a rear facing one

I would NOT use a childminder who thought this was normal behaviour! Also agree with kevin, those life size women are even weirder, what is wrong with just having a wank FFS!

no wonder daughter moved to NZ - can not imagine living near that grandma who was hacked off with her daughter for wanting to look after her own son ...

YANBU

Haha it links to her dolls for sale and there is a fake baby orangutan on there in a babygro!

Try putting that in the back of the car seat...

Imagine leaning in to the pram to oggle the cute baby

How does a potential mummy orangutan bid on ebay? I suppose the opposable thumbs help.

They look like dead babies don't they? Or miniature gollums?

heehee

I felt sorry for the Nan whod bought one of these dolls.

It is a long time since i watched the prog but I thought she had nursed her daughter through leukamis whilsdt caring for her grandchild and practically taken over the 'mother role' - the daughter then in remission met a man and moved a zillion miles away so this poor lady whod dropped everything to nurse her sick daughter and care for her newborn grandson suddenly had a dreadfully empty nest and a dolly filled the void......

The men who have dolly 'wives' were odd - didnt they send them off sometimes to get their 'vaginas' retightened???

Saw this programme and felt very sorry for these women. I do think they would benefit from seeing a doctor though as this can't be healthy. The woman whose grandson moved to NZ needs some help to cope with her grief because a doll replica of her grandson is not going to help her move on with her life. Felt for the husbands too. Agree that these dolls look like dead babies. Was curious to know what they cost. Did I miss that bit or did they not say?

you can get the little monitor wires they use on special care units for them on ebay-now that is just sick.

it is a bit odd, but probably harms noone.

I was more shocked by the monkey baby program here. At least the dolls can't suffer!