a real one is much easier to make
For many people, Reborn baby dolls are just plain creepy. Others believe they are incredible and love to collect the lifelike dolls. They look so much like a real little baby that they have even fooled the police.
...[P]olice trying to rescue a “baby” that turned out to be a doll belonging to the owner’s wife broke a window of a new Hummer to save the “child.”
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These dolls sell for up to $1,000 and the painstakingly hand-painted dolls are so lifelike with eyelashes, fingernails, milk spots and wispy hair that they fool people all the time.
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“They’re even weighted to feel like a baby’s weight and they flop like a baby,” [one owner] said.
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Things You Can Do With Your New Reborn Baby That You Cannot Do With a Regular Baby:
~trade babies when you get tired of yours
~store in filing cabinet while at work
~throw in perfect spiral (real baby will flail arms, resulting in trajectory change and likely interception)
Things You Cannot Do With Your New Reborn Baby That You Can Do With a Regular Baby:
~make use of “Baby on Board” sign
~aim at people you don’t like, encourage to vomit explosively
~begin ladening it with relentless, soul-crushing guilt
Things You Cannot Do With Either a Reborn or a Regular Baby:
~leave in hot car and hope no one will smash windows
~place in microwave (Reborn baby has metal skeleton)
~feed to zoo alligators (zoos do not allow you to feed alligators)
Things You Can Do With Both Kinds of Babies:
~behind mother/owner’s back, marvel at how ugly this one is
~demand favors, attention from strangers
~induce heart attack in long-distance boyfriend when he comes to visit