[blparent] desperately searching for doll I had as a child, please help!

[Heather]

That sounds like new born shivers.  Did it have a baby powder smell? 
Heather
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
To: "NFB blind parent listserv" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 1:24 AM
Subject: [blparent] desperately searching for doll I had as a child,please 
help!


> Hello list,
>
>
>
> There is a doll I had as a child and loved more than anything.  My doll
> "Scotty" got lost when my family moved while I was in high-school.  Please
> let me know if any of you can recognize this doll by my description and 
> tell
> me what the name of this doll is or if you had one yourself.  I would
> appreciate any help you can give me.
>
>
>
> I received this baby doll in 1988.  This was a very realistic looking new
> born baby that was the size of a 3-6 month old and had a vinyl head, arms
> and legs and fabric body.  The baby's heart would beat when you hugged it,
> but there wasn't anywhere in the back to open the doll to replace the
> batteries so once the battery went that feature never worked again.  The
> eyes were fixed in a closed position and there was no hair on the baby but
> the vinyl head had some hair texture on top.  The features were crazy real
> and people in public would always be freaked out that my parents were
> letting their 8 year old daughter carry around a baby until they would get
> right up on the doll and see that it wasn't real.  Some people would even
> have to touch the doll to see that it wasn't real.  That's what I loved so
> much about it as a kid and it had to have weighed around 5lbs.  I have
> searched and searched on-line and right when I think I've found this doll 
> it
> turns out to be a different doll than what I'm looking for.
>
>
>
> Please help if you can and thanks.
>
>
>
> Erin
>
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