Is this really normal

watermeadow I am so glad I am not the only one - and for the same reason.

I had four little girls and one never played with dolls but the others had many dolls. I couldn’t bear to see a naked dolly lying on the floor so would tuck them all into their cots and prams under blankets.
Like animals, once a toy was given a name it had a personality and feelings.

Now let me think, who on GN would ever post something controversial erm. .....?.

I don't like my GGC's dolls or bears just stuffed away as if they're of no consequence and I have, when my AC and GC were children, tidied their dolls prams and dressed them before putting them under the covers. Usually on their side in a comfy position.
When he was about 4 years old, one of my sons used to take his youngest sister out in a dolls pram when we went shopping.
She was so quiet, people thought she was a doll...until she blinked.
I certainly wouldn't buy a 'reborn' or want to push a pram but I do have a teddy, a floppy dog and a doll like the sticker we used to get in marmalade.
They are all put comfortably in a basket on a shelf in my bedroom and rearranged now and again.
We all have our 'quirks' and it's not really up to others to rubbish them unless it really is beyond the pale but then, I doubt anyone would post anything really controversial.

It has been going on for years, you can buy them on eBay.

People buy ordinary dolls, remove the 'paint' and repaint to make them look like newborns.

A few years ago, it was on the TV about a woman who had one custom made to look like her grandson !!!

Personally, I think it is strange to have one of these dolls but I think it is downright weird to take them out, in prams, and treat them like real babies.

There's nowt stranger than folk.

Mamacaz
I treat my Tom cats as family that unfortunately I didn't have.never heard of reborn dolls ! Maybe a chicken in the pram !

I have to agree with those who think this is not normal behaviour. Sorry, but it really is not. If these women have some sort of mental health issues then they have my sympathy. But if not, then this is just plain weird, and I really do not understand anyone who thinks otherwise

I played with dolls when I was a child. "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a (wo)man, I put aside childish things." 1 Corinthians 13:11

Flour Babies

Anyone read "Flour Babies" by Anne Fine?

Franbern your story reminded me of a news item about a scheme where teenagers were given these types of baby dolls which they had to carry round with them; this was supposed to put them off the idea of having unprotected sex.

On a lighter note, this does bring back memories for me of a weekend (nearly twenty years ago),when I was attending a course at a National Sports Training Centre.
This was to train qualified senior British Gymnastics Pre-School tutors in the (then) new qualification to become tutors (tutors train coaches), in 'Fun for Baby'. This is a course which is for Parents and Babies from approx.8 weeks old to one year.
It has proved of great benefit and is used by Health Visitors, physiotherapists and other medical people for parents and their babies.
Senior Tutors were invited to this course, and told to bring a life-size baby doll with them. Using these dolls we trained to work with parents and babies - but we decided (for that weekend) to treat these dolls as real-life babies. So, they accompanied us all of the time, in the refectory, etc. Do remember how perplexed many other athletes were as about a dozen middle/elderly ladies moved around the Centre, nursing these dolls. One doll, i remember, cried - loudly - whenever the dummy was removed from its mouth - most disconcerting.
Great fun for one weekend and we did all go on the pass our examinations and become highly qualified tutors and examiners in this area. Coaches running such classes would often use a doll, but, of course, all the parents attending had real babies.
Must say, that this was the first time since my own childhood that I had cuddled a doll!!!

Oh my gosh! Who sells their baby(doll)?!

I can't find my old baby clothes Jalima. Think I must have chucked the bag out when DH was moaning about clutter in the roof.

One of them is 'pre-owned'

I am coming, but bringing some baby clothes that I found in the attic Gonegirl.
Leave the door on the latch and put the kettle on.

Oooohhh!!! I think those dolls in GrannyLaine's link look lovely. I want one!

Shoot me now!

GrannyLaine, I had a look at your link. They don't look like dolls or models, they look like dead babies. It rather freaked me out and I shouldn't have looked at this time of night. I fear I'll have bad dreams tonight!

M0nica makes me want to throw up.
What ignorance.

rizlett if you are saying that these women have a mental health problem then perhaps this behaviour will help them.

Otherwise, it is bizarre, to say the least.

Despite the poverty in the world today, there are many people with too much money to waste on self-indulgence Bluebelle.

Whooah Rizlett that’s a nasty post

Most of these ladies and those that marry their dogs off in lavish parties wearing veils and dressers and spending hundreds on cakes and food are just showing off trying to be seen to be smart, in the trend, and spending enormous sums of money to boot, they want to be the centre of attraction They are not living in the real world . They are not to be admired in my opinion
There’s so much good people can do it’s selfish wasteful and darned right daft

The conversation is more along the lines of 'Has DGD been shoving you in a hamper again, never mind, I'll get you out, dress you and tuck you up again'.

Do I need help?

I may still chat to Tiny Tears in the privacy of her bedroom M0nica (well, 'DGD who knows everything because she is 7's bedroom) but I would not take Tiny Tears or her sisters out in a pram and pretend that she is a real baby.

I do feel sorry for anyone who has the need to do this, though.

Thank you Jalima. I would actually much rather have both the 7 year olds who know everything nor do they become obstreperous teenagers. rather than play babies with a plastic doll.

Say what you like, protest as you will rizlett, but this behaviour is not normal for an adult woman, unless she has problems, in which case I can feel the utmost sympathy.

What am I ignorant of?

M0nica makes me want to throw up.

What ignorance.