Sarah Mellman’s dolls already contain enough real-life touches — dewy newborn skin, lifelike blue veins and visible saliva — to be confused for the real thing. But a further step elevates Mellman’s ...

Kelli Maple tenderly sets her bundle of joy, Naomi, into a Nuna car seat and drives her to the mall. When they arrive, Maple, 23, places little Naomi, dressed in a onesie and hair bow, into a high-end ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For a newborn, baby Mason sure gets around. He has gone to a zoo, an art fair and other attractions. He has even flown to Miami. A ticket agent stopped Grace Thornton as she carried ...

"You see a doll, I see a baby that I never got to hold,” a woman said after receiving criticism for having a reborn doll Laura Ise; Coly Trigg/TikTok Lifelike dolls, known as reborn dolls, have been ...

Jennifer Neal works to make a baby doll at her desk in her home business called Reborn Nursery in Elmore. The Blade/Amy E. Voigt Buy This Image Jennifer Neal, a 34-year-old mother of four, estimates ...

Lena Kunz takes pictures of women and their babies. Her latest series, ‘Artificial Reality,’ captures stroller walks, late-night feedings, and endless diaper changes. The really good stuff is in there ...

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A mother has revealed she's spent $21,000 (£15,700) collecting over 20 Reborn Dolls. Mary Lee Beatson, 42, from South Carolina, parents and takes care of the lifelike creations, that aim to mimic the ...

A former labor and delivery nurse, Melanie Peterson, said she would get a feeling of absolute "triumph" when she would hold a newborn she had just delivered. Then she would watch as the newborn ...

After suffering from a traumatic incident, a U.K. woman decided to invest in several baby dolls to help her overcome the mental toll she experienced. Toni Daly, 25, from Tower Hamlets, London, ...