Mothering instinct?

My dolls can be like children like being protective and making sure their not in harm but that's all I can think of that relates to them being like children

 

I mother hen with everyone close to me, so I'll definitely treat my doll the same. I have no desire to be a mother, though. I guess maybe having characters in inanimate dolls and stuffed animals has sated that desire?

 

Well.... i'm 15 and i love cute dolls because they're cute I definitely don't want a baby now.
It's not like i get older looking male dolls because i want a boyfriend. So i'm guessing the same thing with little dolls and babies.
I mostly look at the artistic aspect of the hobby.

 

No, of course. There is nothing between child and doll. Dolls don't cry, poop, eat etc. I am 23 years old. And i feel disgust with tiny bjd. If you was right i would love them. But i don't.

 

While I do tend to be protective and caring toward our dolls, I would hardly call it a "mothering" thing. XD It's just my nature.

I have a few smaller, younger dolls now, but my favorites are still mature sculpts, and I adore 70cms. But my love of lolita and frilly cute clothing tends to work better with the smaller dolls. Plus I just love cute little things!

My wife, however, thoroughly dislike childlike dolls. She gives me a hard time about them sometimes. lol

 

No kids, no pets, I don't even have houseplants any more. I just don't want to take care of anything. The doll works nicely because I can ignore it for as long as I want and not be guilty of neglect, then take it out and resume as if there was no interruption. He's far more forgiving than any live companion.

For someone who does have a mothering instinct, I think dolls would be disappointing because they don't respond to your care.

 

If it's mothering instinct mine sucks. XD If my dolls were real kids they'd have starved and have sores from neglect.
I merely like collecting things and spending my money.

 

I do feel like a mother to my dolls, I always call them my daughters (I almost only have girls), and I'm also only interested in childlike dolls. But I have liked dolls like that since I was a child (not BJD's). So I don't think it has anything to do with a biologocal clock ticking. I think I just love dolls, and I always will!

 

I don't have kids, so I don't know how a mother really feels ^^"

 

i probably won't ever have children - biological ones - since i don't want to pass on my genes as there is a genetic history in my family of, well, having a lot of things wrong. in my opinion, i have bad genes, and i'm afraid of inflicting them on an innocent child.

that said, i might want to have children one day, and the person i am in a relationship definitely does, so maybe we would adopt. i left the house to go to the store with my s/o today and there was a really cute little girl there, the kind you just want to pick up and hug and well..look after and care for. so, i suddenly felt really, really broody. so sure, i think i'm vulnerable to 'the mothering instinct'.

that said, i'm not in a mentally or physically fit condition to have children, even if they were adopted, so yet another reason it looks like an unlikely possibility. are dolls a substitute? maybe. i think child-like dolls that are MSD or YOSD size are really adorable and i get that same 'feeling' when i'm handling them, like having a daughter or little sister. but my tastes in dolls are really varied, and i also like mature and womanly looking dolls that don't resemble children at all. i like dolls that can be sensual or stylish/sexy looking too, which child-like dolls definitely are not, so i guess it's a split for me.

 

No, I don't feel that way towards BJDs, and I find it hard to understand how people can! I get that feeling with my reborn doll because it resembles a real baby, but BJDs are different. They are too toy-like. The smaller dolls that do look like children are too small, and bigger dolls that might be closer to the size of a baby have mature features.

 

I must be in the minority of my culture, because I have never, EVER, liked baby dolls or dolls that looked like children. I have always preferred mature-looking dolls. To this day I have no desire to possess a child-proportioned doll (which is why my quest for a 1/6 resin doll, beyond the prohibitively expensive ToYou Sara, has yet to be fulfilled). BBB Isabella is beautiful, but she still looks too childlike to me. If a doll doesn't at least look old enough to vote, I have zero interest.

Most of my dolls, I don't regard as children at all--they're almost more like friends or roommates or grown dependents. When I project a reaction from Megumi or Belle or Miyae or Ashe, I always imagine them referring to me as "Emby" or "that chick who buys us shit". (That last was Ashe's contribution.) Of all of them, only Chaeri calls me "Mama". I've never understood that, but it's just one of her idiosyncracies, I suppose. She's not a child, she's (permanently) seventeen. She's the youngest, chronologically, of my dolls, but I don't think that's the reason for her unique perspective of me. I really don't quite understand it myself, and since it's all coming from my imagination anyway, I know it sounds weird. But there you are.

 

Emby, while you don't know me this makes perfect sense to me. back in 1999/2000 i discovered OtakuWorld and KiSS and subsequently became totally obsessed with it - i think i downloaded nearly every one of your dolls - and i remember them all as being super busty vixens with attitude for the most part. so it makes total sense to me that you wouldn't be into childlike dolls!

now i'm getting nostalgic.. one of my other favorite KiSS artists was Ken Stone. i wonder if he likes BJDs or DDs? there's so many catgirl themed ones and his catgirl KiSS dolls were what he was well known for...

/tangent over

 

I think this is quite possible, yes. I had one baby doll as a child and I never played with it, I always hated dolls honestly. I had a few Barbies, but they weren't my favorite things in the world. I destroyed those things. But after 5 years of a relationship becoming very committing, I've been getting a mad case of Baby Fever. It's that feeling you get when you know you aren't ready for one, but suddenly have a desire for one. It stinks because I'm sort of obsessive, so once I think about it it's on my mind for days.
So after a while of on and off Baby Fever, I saw a picture of one of these beautiful BJDs and knew I just had to get one. I didn't have much money, but I started looking them up anyways and ended up buying a beautiful Resinsoul Mei. She may not be a child like Pukis, but she's my baby. I make her clothes, give her my old toys, and though this is weird to admit, I talk to her. I don't believe it's because I'm lonely because again, I am in a committed relationship and have many friends. I believe it's because I had such a want for a child that that gap just needed to be filled somehow.
I still get Baby Fever now and again, but it's not really random anymore, things sort of cause me to have it now. I had it last week when I got free samples of baby formula mix in the mail. But I've definitely seen a difference since I got my BJD.

 

I didn't like baby dolls as a kid either; I only played with dolls meant to be teens or close to my actual age (like American Girls) or older, like Barbie. My mothering instinct only kicked in when there were children around (siblings, cousins, etc) and somebody had to keep an eye on them, or whenever there was a defenseless little animal who just needed to be cared for and loved. I don't feel motherly towards inanimate objects, dolls included. I usually don't like tinies, but they've grown on me. I am due with my first kid at the end of this year, so I do get the emotional mommy-feeling from time to time, but still not with inanimate objects.

I think anything can become a replacement child or fill the mother-child gap for someone who doesn't have kids or can't have kids, or even for people who do have kids and just likes to dote on dollies like children (but this leads into that treating dolls like children or objects thread).

 

I feel like I'm in the minority here; lately I've been craving things to nuture, and I even have a strong urge to have a real baby. So the dolls I have on the way kind of feel like my 'kids,' as in they fill that void and craving for me. I don't even have them yet, but I have this intense love and connection with them...

 

I have a mothering instinct for everything that has a huge head and huge eyes like little animals and tiny BJDs. But that's just my biology, I don't mistake them for my children, definitely not.

 

My dolls are like the classic victorian child seen but not heard :}

 

For me, it is absolutely not about any kind of motherly instinct. I can't stand real live children, especially babies.

My dolls are representations of fictional characters, either from established fandoms or my own original stories.

 

Somtimes i'll go "aww my baby!" or "my little boy/girl" but I wouldn't analyize it as far to say i'm replacing them as my 'children.' I'm sure there are those in the hobby who DO think of them as children, and if they do, then that's they're deal.