Reborn Dolls
I am a father of 4, all healthy babies, however I know a few other people who have not been so lucky.

There seems to be a trend for people to buy these 'reborn' dolls and have them customised to resemble their dead baby.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_doll

I have seen some of these first hand (not actual replacements, but demonstration ones) and I find the whole concept disturbing.

I am sure they have their place, and people find comfort in them, but they really really freak me out!!
(the_icks has the sweet essence of giraffe, Mon 15 Sep 2014, 17:56, 33 replies)

the section on sex toys has been removed from that wikipedia page again

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 15 Sep 2014, 18:47, closed)

It's great that there are now devices available to accelerate mental illness rather than allow any kind of closure or normal grieving process to occur

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 15 Sep 2014, 18:51, closed)

"Here's a 1/12 scale life-like model of your decapitated reporter husband. Hope it makes you feel better about your loss."

( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 15 Sep 2014, 20:34, closed)

First time I've managed to eat anything since receiving the news and this fell out into my bowl of Cornflakes

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 15 Sep 2014, 20:44, closed)

That's four bodies now and I still have't found a jihadi to complete the set...

( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 15 Sep 2014, 21:11, closed)

Creepy.

( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 15 Sep 2014, 20:25, closed)

Creepy is the word
There was a documentary on about a year or so ago about exactly this. Women walking them around supermarkets in pushchairs was one thing - seeing the faces of the people who stopped to admire what they thought was a real baby was something else.

Not sure which was creepier - the dolls or the people who owned them.
(zebideedoodah likes florence but prefers venice, Mon 15 Sep 2014, 20:32, closed)

Serve 'em right for trying to look at someone else's baby, bloody paedos

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 15 Sep 2014, 20:49, closed)

Hmmmm....
Technically they're necro-paedos as the reborns are essentially dead, no?
(RebelWithoutApplause My underestimation will almost be the death of me, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 9:46, closed)

b3ta.com/questions/dumped/post1825197
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 18:29, closed)

Tell me that's a word...
A friend of mine once brought home a bundle of Victorian baby pictures and was going to collectively frame them. Then I gently pointed out to her why they all had their eyes closed. She was quite upset for a while.
(zebideedoodah likes florence but prefers venice, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 20:09, closed)

aaaaaaagh!

(yeswehavenopasties, Wed 17 Sep 2014, 0:20, closed)

Oh, just fuck off...

( Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 8:20, closed)

Seriously? Ugh.
It's a bit like people who get funeral plots when they miscarry. I'm talking about miscarriages in the first trimester.
Few years ago the missus miscarried after we'd been trying. Fucking awful stuff but really after a d&c a couple of days later it pretty much amounted to a heavy period.
At the hospital the liaison person came up and asked us if we wanted to get a memorial gravestone at the local cemetery. For a lump of cells and some blood...
I can see the point of having a grave for a miscarriage in maybe the third trimester or a stillbirth - often you know the sex and there's good chance you've decided on a name, but at 8 or 9 weeks? Really?
(spl00sh!, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 8:39, closed)

you should go private
they offered to fry ours up with some poached quail eggs
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 8:56, closed)

But in the end your Mum
decided to keep you.
(username failed moderation, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 16:08, closed)

yerr ... dat make big sense innit mmnnnnnng

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 16:19, closed)

it's almost as if defining what constitutes a human being is a highly emotive subject and personal to every couple

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 9:03, closed)

emotive subject and personal to every couple delicious entrée
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 9:05, closed)

never eating in the hospital restaurant again

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 9:09, closed)

all hospital "liver" is placenta

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 9:10, closed)

Indeed.
Because having a gravestone in a cemetery commemorating something that was growing inside your/your wife's uterus for a couple of months, that you continue to visit throughout your life is really going to help you move on from the loss.
Or as the icks has suggested maybe you could gather some of the lining of the womb and have a replica fashioned that you could take shopping with you.
(spl00sh!, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 9:12, closed)

Wouldn't the laws governing abortions
go someway to defining what constitutes a human being?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 9:58, closed)

TERRIBLE BULLYING OF THE LOVELY BUTTERWOMB SAMMI!

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 16 Sep 2014, 15:43, closed)

I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THAT IS, THE LOVELY STUJ!!

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 17 Sep 2014, 11:17, closed)

She's got her own bit in Mike's fail archive The LOVELY Emm Emm.
b3ta.com/users/profile.php?id=16234

Read it and weep.
Still she's made an honest man of Broadsword (when he's not fucking Miquita, Sonia and Cilla on the side that is).

I can't remember who first came up with "Oops Butterwomb". I think it might have been MGT or Woodsie though.
:D

EDIT: Just checked, it was MGT.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 17 Sep 2014, 15:11, closed)

Cheers, LOVELIEST stuj!
Exposing and remedying my ignorance, in one fell swoop.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 17 Sep 2014, 16:46, closed)

Funerals
When the Alder Hey "scandal" broke (doctors sometime keep tissue samples from patients shock horror probe) there were reports of parents having funeral masses said for single microscope slides.

Mind you the combination of "scouse" and "roman catholic" does not entirely say "temperate emotional response".
(ubergeekian, Thu 18 Sep 2014, 2:27, closed)

Way into Uncanny Valley territory
Too far into uncanny valley. Strip mining the valley bed.
( moonbadger Doesn't judge a fish by its ability to climb trees, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 16:43, closed)

yes, we get it, you read Vice sometimes.
stick it up your overused uncanny valley.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Wed 17 Sep 2014, 9:35, closed)

it isn't in uncanny valley at all - they look like children

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 17 Sep 2014, 10:41, closed)