Did anyone watch it tonight? And if so what did you think?

I watched it!  Very sad and to me rather creepy.  I did feel a little weepy with the grandmother whose daughter went abroad with the grandson. 

just watched it

I assumed the grandson was dead tbh...... the way she talked, and i couldn't believe that she would ask her cancer recovering daughter to leave her son behind!!! that said, why didn't she just move with them? or nearer to them?

as for that other woman she was just odd, how on earth can you consider standing in a hotel room "a hard labour" and then say you have bonded etc................

I think C4 could have used far better examples of women who have been unable to have children but have benefitted through the use of these dolls in the show.. but then again where is the debate in that :rolleyes:

I presumed the grandson had died too

I wondered why they didnt buy a puppy or a kitten or another animate creature to pour their love on?

Ditto, I thought he had died. And agreed with the husband who said it was like seeing him on a motuary slab!!! But I only feel that as she wanted him a carbon copy of her grandson :( :( :(
Saying that, My mums got one!!!!! NOOOOOOOO she isnt going barmy!!!!!
She bought it to paint as she is an artist!!! and it is very very lifelike!!!
When you hold it it even feels and looks like you are holding a real baby!!!
This one is packed in a box in her studio for when she needs to do reasearch. Would never be layed out in a pram in their own room etc like that women
She was just weird, and how on earth did her husband put up with her??? £300 for an outfit for a DOLL
Lea :)

I wondered why they didnt buy a puppy or a kitten or another animate creature to pour their love on?

Cos you dont get as much "attention" :(

I felt very embarrassed/sorry for the ladies .........................really how awful that they feel it OK to be pushing a dolly around in a pram at their ages   ....................not my cup of tea.............

It was the weirdest thing I have ever seen!!!

Imagine if you ran into one in the town, I would be proper freaked out and run away! :d :D

Complete nutters if you ask me and I felt for there husbands who just had to endure it...poor blokes!

I was actually quite pleased that the woman who went to America to collect her "baby" had one of these dolls because she saw it as a replacement for having a real child. She was only interested in perfection and couldn't abide noise or disorder so a real child would have had an awful time of it with her :(

One of those is no subsitute for a real child and it appears to become a obsession eventually, and no obsession is good.

That one lady had hundreds in one room!

they are so ugly too.  At least real  human babies get prettier as they get older.  I loved my newborns but never thought them beautiful, LOL :D  My oldest looked like an elderly Eskimo, and my youngest like a Pixie or Elf, putting me in mind of the stories of changlings.

I agree that the woman who had 5 dolls was very strange and thank goodness she didn't have real babies as she was very obsessed with perfection and as we all know you don't get that with children! LOL

I thought they were very lifelike and actually quite creepy, perhaps they could be used in a more productive way with teenagers etc to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies?

ok, didn't see this show but this sounds very very creepy- has anyone read "The Children of Men"? sounds like a bit in that book. babies have stopped being born and some women wander about with fake ones. very very creepy

That women who went to America was so angry when she found it was cracked and why did she have to go to America anyway? The woman who made them was British! It made me laugh when she wrapped it back up though and tied a nappy round its head!

THe doll she was buying for her collection was American. It was specialist because it had open eyes unlike the sleeping babies supplied by the British artist.

She wrapped it up because it was a doll and was faulty..any collector would not accept a broken product be it for a collection of antiques, a work of art,  a teapot, butter dish...there is no end to what people collect and cherish.

oh my goodnesswhat did I think!

well hell! These ladies think we mums pushed prams around for fun! lol! Struggling up steps and through shop doors, on and off buses with the baby, pram and bags of nappies!  Thank goodness those days are over!

.....and to think I though us dog folk were supposed to be strange!

But on the plus side most hobbies are strange to those who do not share the same interest be it grooming a dog for a show, or running round frantically slipping through mud in the pouring rain at an agility trial....  those who do not share these interest think we are a bunch of fruitcakes.  So from that point of view good for those ladies for swimming against the tide and being bold enough to  follow their own harmless  interest even if it seems extremely odd to people like me.

I thought it was pretty sad.....I dont have children either, but would not see a doll as a replacement child. It appears these women want to live in a fantasy world and not a real one.

many people collect dolls. Three of the 4 ladies shown were simply doll collectors... the grandmother had issues though that she could do with dealing with..the loss of a child she had been the prime carer for since his birth..so it must be really hard for her. Leased her daughter survived but the cost is to loose her little buy...not easy to get her head round it.

At least the dolls give her new interest and with it new friends to share their hobby.

I know several guys who collect train sets and model soldiers and set up models and play war games and well there are  heaps of  hobbies different people do. They are all fantasy! Taking on different roles, meeting new friends.

It is a shame people are thought of as sad just because they have a hobby.

Like I say people think I am the saddest of sad because I got deeply interested in my dogs. Showing them was seen as really really sad! So is obedience and so is agility. People who do not share the same interest do not understand. They think these things are sad...many even think these dog activities are cruel and abusive to the dogs because they have no idea about how dogs are trained or how they thrive on mental challenges.

It is very easy to think other people are sad...when we are actually just the same. The media just want to make people with hobbies  look sad and weird because they want us to sit in and watch TV  24/7. ( lol..and it works! )

There really is absolutely nothing wrong with being obsessed, or even in  living in an alternative world - It's what we do when we listen to music, watch the movies, read a book... or pursue our own specific interests.

I didnt mean they were sad for having a hobby....I meant that some of the women who were using them as a substitute baby were sad, and had issues that could maybe have been helped in other ways. And living in an alternative world is ok as long as the person in it can differentiate between the alternative world and the real world, and can move between one and the other. Unfortunately in some instances, where the edges between truth and reality blur, it is really not normal psychologically. I suppose its like being in one of these societies like "sealed knot". Dressing up and having fun is fine, and a perfectly reasonable hobby....but it would certainly not be normal to really believe that you were one of the characters in real life.

I found it quite interesting ..not something that I would do or want to do but it appears to fulfill a need in some folks and no stranger than some of the hobbies we have :D :)

Hey Mel, if you want to see one you know whos door to knock on ;) LMAO
Lea :) :) :)

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