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Prog on Ch4 at 10 tonight about those scary Reborn dolls and the women who make them

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NomDePlume · 02/01/2008 20:35

Have Sky+'d it

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GColdtimer · 03/01/2008 15:30

urgh, there is a picture on that forum of 3 "babies" that reminds me of the picture of the 3 dead servants in The Others.

Hecate · 03/01/2008 15:30

You know, I can't help wondering exactly how many blow jobs it takes these nutters ladies to stop their husbands from legging it.

I'm thinking 4 every night and one at the breakfast table.

sweetkitty · 03/01/2008 15:33

That's a wind up surely Boco

I think I will stick to the DDs Baby Millie's from ELC, they coo, burp, suck their dummies, cry and giggle. Best of all there is an off button at the back. Darn sight cheaper and more pretty than those reborns.

My mad aunt brought everyone back these doll pillows from Spain, they are baby dolls heads sewn into lacy pillows, the honestly look like dead babies in their coffins/moses basket but apprently they are really popular in Spain.

GColdtimer · 03/01/2008 15:35

psml

this one

completely creepy

Peapodlovescuddles · 03/01/2008 15:37

You know I 'met' one of these in a park once...
Was tres disturbing, smiled at an (older) woman with what looked like a baby wrapped in a blanket, she asked me If I wanted to 'have a cuddle' (should have been my first clue, WTF would you ask a complete stranger to hold your kid?) DCs were happily playing so I said ok, held the bloody thing and nearly screamed, couldn't get away from there quick enough

Hecate · 03/01/2008 15:39

That bloke slays me!

his face

So clearly saying

I hope nobody I know ever sees this photo. I love you but you are barking mad. I can't believe this is my life. Help. please help. Dear God someone save me.

He looks so sad and bemused and resigned to his fate all at the same time!

sweetkitty · 03/01/2008 15:40

I love babies as much as the next hormonally mad woman but for me the best thing about having a baby is seeing them grow into individual little people. Newborns are lovely but boring they don't do much and the reborn babies even less. I would never want one of my real babies to stay a baby IYSWIM.

Tamum · 03/01/2008 15:42

Little Samuel truly is one of a kind, isn't he Boco? He appears to have rather nasty craniofacial problems...

I watched this at last and I am pretty speechless. I can just, just, imagine that it might be comforting to cuddle one if you were desperate, but in my wildest dreams, using a car-seat???? Also, who in their right mind would take a pram shopping when they didn't need to?

I find myself unhealthily obsessed with a need to know Helen's side of the Harry story....

Ele08 · 03/01/2008 15:42

i found this quite disturbing. Especially the grandmother who was geting a replica of her grandson as a baby. I couldnt help but laugh when she showed him it over webcam and he said thats not a baby its a doll you numbnut

08aGreatYearForCarmenere · 03/01/2008 15:43

The thing is, you know when you see a really unattractive baby (yes they do exist) but hormones don't allow the parents to actually rate it's attractiveness. Well that is nature preserving the species and is perfectly natural. So WHY do these numbnuts(copyright Harry in NZ) buy really, really ugly dolls? I mean you would think that they could at least form their unhealthy relationships with pleasant looking lumps of molded plastic

mosschops30 · 03/01/2008 15:43

do you think that they have any real friends. I mean you would think that someone would say something wouldnt you.

I cant imagine being friends with a couple like this mind, and I certainly wouldnt want them near my dc's

Wisteria · 03/01/2008 15:44
Tamum · 03/01/2008 15:47

I was also dying to know what mad-dirty-wheels woman's mum thought of being dragged to Washington to be there for the delivery? I mean she has (obviously) had a real child, why does she not tell her daughter to grow up and get a real life?

Hecate, the photo scene was priceless

Ele08 · 03/01/2008 15:47

at numbnuts copyrite of Harry NZ! Totally agree about the ugliness of the dolls, well spooky

Quadrophenia · 03/01/2008 15:47

what I find wierd is how these people liken it to collecting cars, or having a passion for other inanimate objects. Clearly the difference is that i don't pretend that my car is alive, i use it for its original purpose which is driving it around. Treating a doll as a new born baby is trying to make it something it simply isn't, if they were just collected as ornaments I could kind of see it as normal, but these dolls really aren't ornaments, they are fake babies.

WanderingTrolley · 03/01/2008 15:50

lol Hecate

Does anyone believe that Sue(?) and 'I can't believe this is my life' dh tried to have babies but couldn't?

It just seemed so strange, a bit forced and sad, when they said that their hobbies took over. And there was a sort of desperation to them. It was just so sad.

If that's the case, I really hope she's very happy with her clean, cranially perfect dolls.

GColdtimer · 03/01/2008 15:54

I agree, Aside from finding the whole thing completely freaky I also found it incredibly sad that their lives are so empty they have to fill them in this way.

tangent · 03/01/2008 15:57

i went to bed last night thinking about it, you know, it's ok for me with my beautiful real baby asleep in my room, that i can cuddle and carry around and it does fulfil a real need to be maternal. Babies are beautiful. It's so sad for these women who have to recreate it, because their maternal instinct is so strong but they can't fulfil it in any other way. I watched the programme started feeling sick, scared, sad, then fell about laughing by the end, but later i was thinking, how lucky i am. It's alright for us. Then i was thinking about if my child died, wouldn't i just want to hug a doll or something to grieve??? i don't know. I guess i'm just trying to understand.

pollypumpkin · 03/01/2008 16:05

I am in FITS of laughter looking at the pics...
Baby Samuel has dressed up as a snowman today?? oh, well done him!
I went to bed after the prog last night, after first checking my DDS as usual... couldn't help giving a glance at baby Annabel in the corner, falling out of the cot with a scarf tight round her neck and face covered in felt pen marks...

DoubleBluff · 03/01/2008 16:06

I think someone forgot to tell sue and her husband that they have to have sex to have a baby.
MAybe that is where they are going wrong.
It was sad, and I suppose we should live and let live.
They are not harming anyone. But spending all that money on a doll is such a waste.

pollypumpkin · 03/01/2008 16:06

Baby Annabel is a doll BTW not one of my DC!!

Ele08 · 03/01/2008 16:08

I can see your point tangent but not everyone who buys these has lost a child. I had a miscarriage last month and i am lucky to have two children but i wouldnt go pushing one of those dolls about in a pram. babies are lovely but they dont stay babies for long and i cant help finding these dolls creepy as they stay babies forever iykwim. Another thing about this programme i didnt like was the 24 week old premature doll. I think the woman said this is the smallest a baby could survive at so i take it that it was the size of a baby that age. osent seem right. I mean are they going to start making ones even smaller than that

tangent · 03/01/2008 16:08

oh good

SheikYerbouti · 03/01/2008 16:08

oh God, pmsl at baby Samuel. He's a real beuty isn;t he

If I gave birth to him, hormones or none, I'd have to give him away

tangent · 03/01/2008 16:09

before you had kids, did you ever put a cushion up your shirt and stand infront of the mirror? is that how it starts???

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