How to Take Care of a Doll Like a Living Being

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Do you have a really unique baby doll? Well if so, do you want to be a mother/father? Then you can try with the doll first and see how you like it. Well let's just say it's a lot of work. Take the doll test!

Steps

Dressing Your Doll

Provide your baby doll with clothes. You can make your own or buy some doll clothes if you'd like.

Make a diaper from scrap toweling or an old towel. Alternatively, use real ones; choose the very smallest ones.

Providing Your Doll a Home

Make a "room" for your doll.

Make a doll bed. Make it from a shoe box or similar small box. Line with a piece of foam. Add a blanket, sheet and pillow. A pillow and sleeping mat can be made from scrap fabric. Cut two pieces of fabric into a rectangle shape and stitch up three sides. Stuff, then stitch up the final side.

Make a personal space for your doll. Set up like a bedside table, then put the bed you made for your doll on the bedside table or inside your room.

Feeding Your Doll

Prepare fake food for your baby doll. Pretend you are feeding the "child." Mix a bit of cornflour with water (1/4 cornflour, 3/4 water) and add a few drops of your choice food coloring. Do not place fake food inside the doll; it might go moldy and ruin the doll.

Make a bottle. You can check out How to Make a Bottle for a Stuffed Animal or Baby Doll.

Feed baby food. If you have a Baby Alive Sweet Spoonfuls doll, you can feed the doll with food made just for her and she will "poop". These dolls are great if you are ready to have a "real" baby.

Caring for Your Doll

Don't leave the baby unattended. Unless you must go to school or any place where you really shouldn't bring the doll.

Never leave your "child" in the car. If it were a real child, there's a very good chance somebody might call the police.

Have fun! You have to pay a lot of attention to the "child." Take the baby for a stroll and if you want, you can be fancy and buy real baby stuff.

Play games with your doll. Play hide and seek, card games and ball games.

Put your doll to bed at a good time each night.

Try out what it is really like to be a real parent. If you really want to pretend to be a parent for real, set an alarm about 2 to 3 times a night. When you have a newborn, you will be up at least that many times in the first few months.