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Is that little girl dead?

posted by KillBill on WTF

So yesterday I had to go for an eye test and part of the procedure was I had to have some eye drops and wait 15 minutes and come back so he could check my eyes. Made my eyes a little blurry but not too bad. So I go wandering around the shops nearby.

Coming at me down one of the aisles is this large woman who looked a lot like a bogan. I glance down at her pram at her little girl and see her looking a bit upset, holding her finger out at an odd angle and looking kinda purple. I stop for a bit pretending to look at the plant pots and take another look. The girl hasn't moved at all.... I glance around to see if anyone else is looking and see two women also looking at this baby and talking about it behind their hands.

Is that little girl dead?

TL;dr

Wtf is this shit and why is she pushing it around?

https://www.reborns.com/item/61097/2

This is the exact doll this woman was pushing around

https://www.reborns.com/user/2209/15185673533b.jpg

So yesterday I had to go for an eye test and part of the procedure was I had to have some eye drops and wait 15 minutes and come back so he could check my eyes. Made my eyes a little blurry but not too bad. So I go wandering around the shops nearby. Coming at me down one of the aisles is this large woman who looked a lot like a bogan. I glance down at her pram at her little girl and see her looking a bit upset, holding her finger out at an odd angle and looking kinda purple. I stop for a bit pretending to look at the plant pots and take another look. The girl hasn't moved at all.... I glance around to see if anyone else is looking and see two women also looking at this baby and talking about it behind their hands. Is that little girl dead? TL;dr Wtf is this shit and why is she pushing it around? https://www.reborns.com/item/61097/2 This is the exact doll this woman was pushing around https://www.reborns.com/user/2209/15185673533b.jpg

6 comments

[–] doggone 5 points (+5|-0)

If she thought it was real, she'd have left it in the car.

[–] Kannibal 3 points (+3|-0)

Edited

Apparently it is a thing/rabbithole

https://nypost.com/2016/02/24/meet-the-mom-whose-fake-babies-make-grown-women-cry/

https://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1123485/reborn-pregnancies

Have you ever seen a baby doll so realistic you did a double-take, thinking it was a real child? They're called reborn dolls, and some of them are so lifelike police have actually smashed car windows thinking babies were left inside while their parents shopped (only to learn they were coming to the rescue of a doll).

The custom-order dolls can cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars into the thousands. You can get a basic baby doll with a realistic-looking head and limbs. Or you can add on from a range of expansion packs for anything from pierced ears and magnets in their mouths that can hold a pacifier to sound boxes and mechanisms that can make them look like they're breathing.

There is a group of women that like to pretend they're "reborn pregnant" who have found a home on YouTube, where they post videos showing off the items they've purchased for their future doll and their fake pregnancy bumps, and chronicle the symptoms and complications of their pregnancies. They discuss cravings and morning sickness as caused by their reborn pregnancy. They show off positive reborn pregnancy tests and stammer in front of the camera as they complain about suffering from pregnancy brain. They even talk about contractions and how nervous they are about their upcoming C-section — all for a pregnancy that doesn't exist.

http://ourlifewithreborns.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_doll

and a full fledged documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTnr2CmLbG4

and of course, an unboxing video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG_5J-jXaZ8

[–] KillBill [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

make them look like they're breathing.

Strangely enough I would've much preferred this rather than worrying until I got home and was able to find out it was a doll for sure.

[–] xyzzy 3 points (+3|-0)

At least shipping ids free.

But why buy one, they're cheap and easy to DIY?

[–] [Deleted] 2 points (+2|-0)

The DIY ones ain't cheap. And the maintenance is a killer.

[–] [Deleted] 2 points (+2|-0)

My niece had one of these little shits.