Baby Born Novice

[Elly1801]

Hi there,

Can someone enlighten me...I have two girls who are dolly mad, 18mths and almost 3. They both have soft bodied approx 14" dolls which they play with loads. We'd like to get them each a doll for xmas but don't really know where to start (Granny bought both first dolls). Does anyone have any recommendations? The only thought I had was to get them similiar ones to reduce potential for jealousy! Baby Born seem to have a good range but what is difference between the dolls they offer - Born/Chou/Annabell???

DD has Baby Born, no batteries so doesn't do the crying etc, she will be 3 in January, and likes taking it swimming which is why we had no batteries.

If they love the dollies they already have why don't you go for an accessory, like a pram or buggy, or baby carrier, cot, highchair...

I would say go for similar but clearly different so they don't get into this is my one, no it's my one. Especially if they look identical when in the babybath (naked). Do they have different favourite colours that you could get the same item in different colours for example? Or do the children have different coloured eyes to each other that you could get dolls that have their same coloured eyes or somethign like that perhaps?

Of course you don't want either of them to be jealous of the other. But they are different children and they do have to learn at some point that they don't always get the same as each other every time. I'm sure they will love whichever dolly they get. Especially if there is a note from Santa along with it that says he especially choose this dolly for them because of 'some special reason that you can think of'

Don't worry about the different kinds too much. By the time your daughters are 10 they will have so many dollies you won't know what to do with them!