My reborn baby doll is too "hard"

My reborn baby doll is too "hard"

by Brooke
(Seattle, WA)

I just finished my first reborn baby, and I'm very proud of her. I weighted her with about 5 lbs of glass beads (she's full term). When my husband came home from work he looked at her and said she looked like a real baby, but when I put her in his arms he said "she sure doesn't feel like a real baby." His reasoning was she was too "hard" in her legs and arms. I don't know what to do about that because dividing up the 5 lbs. between arms, legs, head and body resulted in full legs and arms, and I have to agree they ARE hard.

How do you distribute the weight correctly and what do you do to make sure the reborn baby is soft and cuddly all over.

Also, I filled her shoulders and hips with fiberfill and just a few glass beads, but they seem really floppy. Did I do it right?

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weight without hardness NEW
by: Anonymous

I use steel shot to creat a good weight in the base of the body on top of some fibrefill. then add more fiberfill.this way you have both the weight and the cuddliness.

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reborn, too floppy
by: Tina Cole

Take a nylon knee high sock, fill it with poly pellets, don't tie a tight knot yet! Just a loose knot. Take fiber fill, stuff some into the baby's bottom, until it feels like it can sit well, on a table. Take your nylon sock, filled with poly pellets, place it into the body. Don't pack too many poly pellets into the sock, or it will feel too stiff.
Take some more fiber fill, place it into the body, on top of the poly pellet filled sock. Take your finished baby head, with the cable tie around the neck of body, don't tie it yet! Just put baby's head on top, loosely hold cable tie, to see if you feel there's enough stuffing. If it's a newborn size, make the head somewhat wobbly, but not too much. When you think it's just right, remove it,tie your knot, on the pellet filled sock,and place baby's head, then finish with your cable tie around baby's neck. Hope this helps!

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reborn, too hard
by: Anonymous

I have had my challenges in reborning. I have evolved in the 4 years of reborning. Here's what I do, to ballance a reborn, to feel soft and weighted, in all the right places. I use small fine glass granules, in the limbs, and fill them only up to the elbows, for the arms. For the legs, I only fill the glass up to the knees. I then take fiber fill, and stuff the limbs, the rest of the way up until you don't feel granules moving around in the limbs. That does the trick for me, and baby feels soft and cuddly, and not overly heavy, and stiff.
Good luck! And I'm sure you'll fool many people with your reborns, thinking they are real infants.

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