At Tienda de Angels, a business in Medellín, Colombia, the scene is repeated with every girl who comes in for her doll. The experience is called the “balloon reborn baby”: the girls break the wrapping that simulates a birth bag and discover the baby inside, as if they were receiving it for the first time.
Reborn dolls are hyperrealistic dolls that imitate newborns down to their weight, features, and skin details. Some girls play at caring for and dressing them; other people collect them as works of art.
Videos of these deliveries went viral because of the reactions of surprise and joy, but they also sparked a discussion online: original tenderness or exaggerated realism for a toy?
What do you think of this way of presenting reborn babies?