Posted on 07/24/2025 7:01:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin
“You see a doll, I see a baby that I never got to hold,” a woman says in a TikTok video while cradling a lifelike doll — known as a reborn doll — that has the chubby cheeks and sparse, blonde hair of a newborn.
Another woman, Christina Keeler, who is married with two daughters, has a social media channel called “The Reborn Family,” with 38,000 subscribers. She gets thousands of views for videos in which she takes out the dolls in public outings.
"I was never able to talk about our pregnancy loss until I found reborns," Keeler, who had a pregnancy loss nine years ago before her daughters arrived, tells PEOPLE exclusively of buying her first doll. "It has been very therapeutic for me."
The women are part of a niche community of people that collect reborn dolls – some of which can cost up to $5,000.
Dr. Jessica Zucker, a psychologist specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health, has talked with women who have navigated pregnancy loss with the help of such dolls.
She says that women may find “newfound comfort” by having the doll to “cuddle with, to care for, to bring into public.” The weight of the doll can also be therapeutic.
While Zucker is not an expert in doll therapy, she says that reborn dolls can serve as a sort of “buffer” for women, so they can navigate their grief after having a miscarriage or stillbirth.
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There’s something very creepy about this...
right up there with the furries and adults dressing like and acting like babies.
Euthanasia seems appropriate since these morons have reached the end of the functioning brain.
In Mazatlán the Cora Indians would come down from the hills with a doll dressed as a baby to beg money from tourists.
My x-wife still reads Trixie Beldon books.
Kind of like men who never give up the toys of their youth, IMO.
LOLs!!
'Reborn' Baby Dolls
$5000??!! That's completely nutso.
Mine was <$20!
The order and details are so important.
Several years ago, I went in search of just the right doll for my outdoor Christmas manger display. When I found the perfect one for the job (i.e. vinyl only, articulated, blue eyes..), slight problem -- it was a "girl".
The facial features, however, were neutral, so...
A change of clothes to a blue "Mama's Boy" newborn onesie outfit, and Voila!
The real change effect concerns the hair, which is actually a cute design embossed into the vinyl. No hair but not bald, either.
I used two shades of orange Sharpies to trace and blend the lines and to soften the edges of the markings.
His hair is truly a work of art, even if I do say so myself.
And there you have it -- 'Reborn' Baby Doll, Ginger Jesus!
Accept no substitutes!
You can wager planed parenthood ain’t giving them away.
Crazy cat lady. Run away.
There are also actual human beings who could benefit from such attention.
Doesn’t that prove my point about it fulfilling a desire to be a mother?
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