She picks a "baby of the day" to focus on and dress up in baby clothes; she has 28 of them and two more on the way. Her dolls vary in size, from a preemie that's a few pounds to one about the size ...

The lifelike dolls, known as reborn dolls, can help people grieving after pregnancy loss, serve as a form of therapy for dementia patients and be a fun collectible, experts say. Here's a look at the ...

Mom feeds Reborn dolls baby formula. The woman’s ‘babies’ are in fact ‘reborn dolls’ – very life-like dolls one can purchase, often when one has suffered infant loss or miscarriage.

These aren't your run-of-the-mill dolls cranked by the millions in some foreign factory. These are hyper-realistic infant dolls, usually made of vinyl or silicone and weighted appropriately.

Maddie, 19, a mom of two from the UK, says people have called her "crazy" for raising her Reborn Doll, Forrest, as a real baby alongside her human daughter, Ophelia, 18-months.

The Grand Baby Project is a Katy-based therapy program that gives life-like baby dolls to dementia patients. The patients care for the dolls—dressing, bathing and changing them.

“And, no, I don’t treat it like a real baby.” The dolls have flooded into pop culture. ... “My life has turned into chaos with this boom,” she said, referring to the frenzy around the dolls.