Brittany, I am so glad you shared. I’ve forgotten who’s commented and who hasn’t. I don’t think I had a clue either that you were only 24. You are definitely an asset to this forum and I really appreciate your sharing.
I don’t know how you find the time to make babies with all you have on your plate! Your kids are beautiful btw! I love the different babies that you have made also. Trying to get up the nerve to try branching out some with color this weekend.
b.u.m.p!
My name is Angela.
After spending the first part of adult hood on advanced education and career building, I met my husband at our 10 year high school reunion. He turned this big city, corporate accountant into a small town, house wife, lol. I have a son born in 2008, who was a preemie born at 30 weeks due to pre-eclampsia. And daughter born summer of 2011, but she was “mistakenly” shall I say negligently killed in the hospital on the day she was born. After loosing my daughter in such a tragic way at which I too almost died from, I was miserably depressed, suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and in constant physical pain from my injuries, internal hemorrhaging, multiple surgeries, blood transfusions, DIC, blood disorders and all the aliments that go along with that… I prayed a lot for God to help me overcome this obstacle in my life and to find strength to carry on so that my son would not have to grow up without a Mommy.
Initially I was looking for a life sized, bronze garden statue of a little girl to honor my daughter with, and perhaps to help me to imagine/fantasize it was my daughter as a little girl dancing in the garden or chasing butterflies but… after a late night of Google-ing I stumbled upon “memorial portrait dolls” and then unto reborn dolls. So I ordered a couple kits and supplies and decided to make a doll. I committed myself into this doll, it was going to be the best doll ever! While my son was at school I worked and worked on it…then it turned into two dolls and then there was the “Bountiful Baby Pageant” doll, and then the Prototype Fairy Doll(mine is featured), and then people started paying me to make dolls and buying the dolls that I made. I can literally say reborning shed a new light on me, it’s been the biggest release of my emotional trauma. It was like I had all this love built up inside me for my daughter and anger for what happened to us, but it had nowhere to go. When I make a doll it’s like something overcomes me in a frenzy and I can release her love in a positive way. This is why the name for my doll nursery is “Made with Lily’s Love”, because it is just that.
And here I am…in the beginners lounge of bountiful baby, quickly budding into a successful, skilled doll maker. The rest will be history…
My First baby, Foxy and I feeding the ducks And my Hubby, he HATES this picture, I love it, lol.
My Fur Kids: Foxy and Bear
My most favorite babies I ever made, my son and my daughter, she’s an odd color from meconium staining and a blown forehead vein from unsuccessful attempts to get an IV line started:
So sad to hear how some of you suffered such losses that started you down this path. And how some of us have had such wonderful children and experiences that we want to make more “babies” yet don’t have the time or resources for real ones! I feel so blessed that none of my children were lost to me and now I have a granddaughter. We’ve all had struggles but we have overcome. Praise God!!
To those of you who just collect and enjoy but don’t create (yet), welcome too! Without someone to take some of these babies off our hands (and hearts), we’d soon run out of space (and money) to make more babies. I know my bedroom is spilling over with baby stuff and doll parts since I spend most of my time in there. I tried to make a baby room but so far it’s been my bed…spilled glue on my blanket last night resulting in an emergency washing! Paint on a pillowcase…but the babies get created…and no more real babies…
So happy lurking to the lurkers and happy reborning to the artists and happy, happy, joy, joy to those of us who do both!!!
So sad to hear how some of you suffered such losses that started you down this path. And how some of us have had such wonderful children and experiences that we want to make more “babies” yet don’t have the time or resources for real ones! I feel so blessed that none of my children were lost to me and now I have a granddaughter. We’ve all had struggles but we have overcome. Praise God!!
To those of you who just collect and enjoy but don’t create (yet), welcome too! Without someone to take some of these babies off our hands (and hearts), we’d soon run out of space (and money) to make more babies. I know my bedroom is spilling over with baby stuff and doll parts since I spend most of my time in there. I tried to make a baby room but so far it’s been my bed…spilled glue on my blanket last night resulting in an emergency washing! Paint on a pillowcase…but the babies get created…and no more real babies…
So happy lurking to the lurkers and happy reborning to the artists and happy, happy, joy, joy to those of us who do both!!!
— Begin quote from “RobinRoseCreations”
Angela,
I am so very sorry for your loss. I miscarried at the end of my first trimester in 2007…it hit me hard. I couldn’t imagine lossing one full term. Then in 2009 I gave birth to my 3rd son…c-section. Doctors thought he had bleeding on his brain, negligence on the doctor and hospital staff…they also thought he had broke bone above his eye. All from trauma at birth. We together spent 7 days in the hospital. I was away from my DD then age 3. It took her a long time to recover me leaving her, she thought. I’m a stay at home mom and she had never slept anywhere but home with me. Come to find out my baby boy was fine, except for some behavior problem he has know, we think were caused from trauma at birth. Also he was not fed anything 12 hours after birth…negligence on the hospital staff once again. I was in such pain from trying to give birth so long and ending with the c-section…I slept thinking my baby was being taken care of. I was going to nurse my baby, so they didn’t give him a bottle. The next day they told me he cried all night, never stopping. I don’t understand why they didn’t come to me and say…Hey! He’s hungry!!! Nurse him!!! I was so upset. The nurse was young, she said “I held him all night”, “I didn’t know what to do for him”. Where do they get these people!!!
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Did the Dr try to use forceps? I’ve heard of a lot of similar birth injuries from improper forceps use. Even babies that have been killed. The hospital didn’t provide you with a breast pump? You could have feed him with an eye dropper or better yet, the hospital could have gavaged him or tube fed him? I swear, corporate greed has no place in health care! In modern times there is not excuse for medical “accidents”…
BUMP thought I’d bump this up to keep it going.
Linda
bumping back up to the top for new members to share
Susan, your Halloween yard is just amazing!! With that much creativity, you are bound to create some amazing babies… Debora Jenkins loves Halloween too and is hosting a “party” on this forum!!!
Susan, I enjoyed seeing your pictures too.
I introduced myself in a different post but thought I would reply here to. My name is Patty and I am from Nebraska. I am married to my high school sweetheart and we have a 22year old son.I am working on my second reborn and loving it. I also scrapbook and I built a dollhouse. That was so much fun!When I was looking on ebay for dollhouse stuff is when I found reborns and I fell in love with all the babies. I had to try and make one and now I am hooked.I am shy in real life and that is why I don’t post much it is hard for me to step out of my shell. I have also been having health problems lately in august I was Diagnosed with complex hyperplasia with atypia and will need a hysterecomy soon.So if i am not around much you will know why. Anyway, is a great forum and I am happy to be a part of it!
Susan I am so glad to read your post and yours too Patty. Susan I agree with Pia…you are super creative and I am looking forward to sharing your reborning experience. Patty, we have quite a few gals on the forum who consider themselves very shy and I must say they have become very active on the forum because it a pretty safe place to hang out. Feel free to ask any questions, get involved in giving your opinion and share your process with pictures. WE LOVE PICTURES!!!
Welcome, Susan! I guess you are already getting plans made for Halloween. Looking forward to seeing your babies all dressed up!
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Welcome Jan, So glad to have you in the reborning world…
Jan we are so happy you are here with us.
Nice to meet you Kim. I am Debbie, 51, christian ,an EMT, Fire fighter, wife mother to a 31 yr old son grand mother for Carlee who is 3, and I have now officially been reborning for a year.
My name is Angela. I am new to reborning, but have been admiring them for about the last 8 months. I love dolls, thought I was too old for them, I am 31, so started a doll collection for my 6 year daughter Aiyanna. She is alot of fun!! I have 3 children, Brandon is 12, Aiyanna 6, and Lucas is 2. They all 3 have very different personalities which amazes me everyday. Brandon has reached his grumpy stage, which I am assuming is his age, Aiyanna laughs all the time, and it seems she is always having fun!! Lucas is too cute, gets into everything, and likes to help alot.
As for me, I am in a relationship with Lucas’s dad, and have been for 3 and ahalf years. We have a great relationship, and it’s unique because we went to church together as small children, and 19 years later met again.
I don’t work right now, but for the past 2 years I have bought and sold different things, mostly toys on ebay, and at a flea market. Love working in the booth at the flea market in the summer. I get to meet so many different people, and have made some great friends there.
I love visiting this forum since I joined and chatting with everyone, helping, etc. I hope to get off to a great start reborning, so far so good I think, and look forward to getting to know all of you. Have a great day, and thanks for the post! When I figure out how to add a pic to my profile, I will upload some to my profile here.
Angela
My name is Vanessa and my mum in laws name is Bonnie:)
She is my partner in my reborning “adventures”. It is a lot of fun to learn techniques and be able to laugh and have fun creating these adorable babies.
I am a married mom to 6 children. 4 boys (ages 8,7,2 and 9 months) and 2 girls (ages 5 and 4).
We all live in a big farmhouse in the “middle of nowhere” way up northern Maine.
All our reborning is done in our home which was built in 1892 and has always been owned by one family until our family bought it.
Anyways, I have been reborning myself for about 6 months, and my mil Bonnie is just starting out on her first doll.
I look forward to meeting you all and hope to be able to come across some other Maine Reborn Artists throughout our adventures!