re: Serious question...what the hell is this?

Those things creep me out. There is a really interesting BBC documentary about women who treat them like real infants.

Yeah, that's how the women on the documentary were. Took them out for walks and "fed" and "changed" them. Very sad.

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I knew someone whose wife had one because they had a few miscarriages and couldn't carry to term. She dressed it and brought it out with her in a stroller. It was really sad.

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I can't even imagine the heartbreak of that. We have had women in my group who have done to commemorate a loved one. A lady's only daughter (a young college student) died. The mom had a doll that had always looked like her daughter. It was a collector's doll modeled after a teen (not a baby doll or creepily realistic).

They took a lot of the girls clothes to make little outfits for the doll. Our group got involved with it.

I think this is a great as a way to keep a piece of the clothing, yet not hoarding and memorializing everything. The doll would be passed on to a grandchild in a few years along with the little collection of clothing that almost any girl would love.

I clicked and bought one. 550 for a dead baby doll is unbeatable.