"Then they're weighted like a real baby. So when you're holding them, you get that – it's like that maternal instinct. And for me, that was comforting." A sculptor molds the doll with clay.

When I learned I was expecting my second child, I prepared my oldest for her new big sibling role with baby doll toys. These ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Russian artist Michael Zajkov makes freakishly realistic dolls and documents the process on his Instagram. He hand-makes the dolls and clothing. Though not for sale ...

The lifelike babies cost anywhere between £300 to a staggering £20,000 and are often used by mothers grieving the loss of a baby ... between the dolls and real babies including the newborn ...

Narrator: First, we measured each of the dolls, their height, waist, and so on, and used some high-school algebra to figure out their life-size measurements. Then, we compared them to a real-life ...