The process of creating a Reborn Doll is referred to as Reborning. The term Reborn Doll refers to a vinyl baby doll, that has been customized by a process of repainting and enhancement to resemble a human baby. Recently, a growing trend showing that there are more and more people, especially women, are really crazy for the dolls.

Not everyone understands reborning, the technique of Reborning has evolved over the past five years, as hobbyists and doll artists have refined the painting techniques and added technical enhancements, such as a heartbeat simulator. To the uninitiated it's a world of strange obsession, to the folks that do understand, it provides endless hours of irreplaceable pleasure. More recently special Reborn doll kits are available, and mechanical enhancements are seen, such a battery powered breathing mechanism to simulate the breathing movements of a sleeping baby.

That joy is came from beauty, artistry, and singularity of each doll, because just like human babies, reborn dolls come in every conceivable shape size and color - nowadays there are Caucasian, Asian, and African American Reborn Dolls.

Reborn dolls are exactly as they sound, they are dolls that have been stripped of their manufactory finishes and been "reborn" and transformed in to real looking babies. A search for 'reborn' in the eBay dolls category yields painstakingly refinished dolls made to look sometimes eerily like real babies.

Sometimes in mid July this year, in Australia, frantic police have broken a window to rescue a seemingly unconscious baby from a locked vehicle, only to find it was a highly real doll, which is the reborn doll. Similar incident in the US when the window of a new Hummer was broken by police trying to rescue a "baby" that became out to be a doll belonging to the owner's wife.

From vivid skin tones and micro-rooted hair, a absolutely weighted body filled with unique soft products, this is truly a multi-dimensional art..these babies look and feel real. Reborning baby dolls has become a unique art skills and some of the famous artists in this area excel in this very niche business. A lot of people also take it as a spare-time activity for the doll making as there are many instruments available for ones to follow on the interest.

Their chests rise and fall and you can hear a tiny heartbeat, but these babies for sale over the Internet are not alive. They are not only popular mainly with collectors, but also with nostalgic grandparents and grieving parents. "Cuddle therapy" is what one reborning Website calls the hobby -- the dolls' bodies can be fitted with electronic devices that mimic a heartbeat and breathing.

As the dolls grow more hot, doll-makers keep supplying new particulars to copy the experience of having a living baby. There are reborns that seem to breathe, ones that have a faint heartbeat, others that feel warm to the touch, since they come with heating packs. There are dolls modelled after premature babies that are sold with incubators, a breathing apparatus taped to their nostrils. Some makers add a milky, baby-powder scent. Doll-maker Becker washes her reborns repeatedly in baby shampoo so they no longer smell of vinyl but like a newly bathed infant.

You don't stop playing with dolls because you grow old. You grow old because you stop playing with dolls.