Grassi, 43, says he "wept like a baby" when Jandrisevits gifted him and his wife a doll missing part of its lower arm several months before the birth of Emma last October. "For me as her father ...

each creation uniquely mirroring the child or baby to whom it’s being given. Oftentimes a donor sponsors a doll, which costs about $100 to make, through Jandrisevits’ nonprofit A Doll Like Me ...

It's not exactly like having a real baby - but the motions, the care, and the attention feel very real and comforting.' She added that for many people, reborn dolls are not just toys but ...

I like them without it because they are more cuddly. But to do pictures and photo shoots we use those, yes. CO: Okay, and who buys them? KC: A lot of doll collectors ... When you put a baby ...

An American mother makes lifelike ‘reborn’ replica baby dolls for women who have lost their own to help them cope, some of which come with real human hair and are scented to smell like a real ...

Reborn dolls are weighted baby and toddler-sized figurines ... birthmarks and facial expressions. Extras like battery-operated “breathing” machines, human or animal hair or baby-like scent ...

Two women who have transformed themselves to look like the Mattel doll feel empowered ... marketed in 1959 as a teenage fashion doll alternative to baby dolls — and the star, of course, of ...

Kelly Cunningham has always wanted to be a mother — but without a baby of ... for Jennifer like a real child,” Cunningham, now 29, told Caters of her beloved, lifelike doll.