00:00We have 12 children.
00:02Four of them are alive, and the other ones, not.
00:07My children, we teach them to take care of them.
00:13Like a real baby, you know?
00:14Some people think it's weird.
00:16These are super creepy.
00:18Horrible, they look dead.
00:20Some people, they are afraid because they look like very real.
00:23This is your baby.
00:24Are you afraid like maybe your kids are going to be confused about the dolls?
00:31Come on, girls, let's eat.
00:37My name is Enrique.
00:39My name is Lorraine.
00:40And we have many, many kids.
00:43We have biological kids, four.
00:46There it is, you look beautiful.
00:51Do you want to sit here?
00:52The rest of the room?
00:54To eat?
00:56Yes.
00:56And like eight of them are born babies.
00:59Yeah.
01:02What is a reborn baby?
01:04The reborn baby is a silicone baby.
01:07It's cooked like a real baby with all details.
01:11Always we prepare breakfast all together with the babies.
01:16Baby.
01:18Yeah, this is your baby.
01:20Kiss your baby.
01:21Like a big family.
01:23What is the role of these babies in your family?
01:26My children, we teach them to take care of them.
01:30Have to treat like a real baby, you know?
01:32This is normal for us.
01:33We're making quesadillas and they are taking care of their own babies.
01:37So this is my baby.
01:40The name is Elena.
01:42It's a pretty baby.
01:43And also she has the sister.
01:45But I like more, I think Elena.
01:48Because I think it's more like real.
01:51With the eyes closed.
01:53Do you sleep with the babies too?
01:54No.
01:55We put them in one room.
01:57Good night.
01:58How did this reborn dolphin come?
02:01Our background, our artists too.
02:03My father and her mother, they are sculptures and painters.
02:06I fell in love with this art.
02:09And when we married, she took her collections and everything to our new home.
02:14And I thought it was a little bit weird.
02:17And I told her, you know, you have to sell those babies or give it away.
02:20Because I don't like that that much.
02:23She sold that one like in two hours.
02:25She told me maybe we can make a baby like this.
02:28Because at that time, there were not too many artists doing this.
02:32So actually we are like three or four in the world doing that.
02:36Everyone is crying here.
02:37This is a very special baby for us.
02:39With the umbilical cord and everything, with placenta like a newborn baby.
02:44Look at here.
02:45You see the movement of this one?
02:47Is there any kind of like an emotional bonding in between you and the kids and the adults?
02:53They have like their favorite ones.
02:55Sometimes they go to sleep with them and actually they have like a...
03:00And they put it there and they play.
03:03You do this every morning? Every day?
03:05Yeah, like normal for I make like videos.
03:09My daughter, she likes to do a routine, you know?
03:11This is my routine in the morning what I do with my baby.
03:15My morning routine with my silicone baby.
03:20She likes to dress them up and she's like changing the diapers.
03:27So first I want to change the diaper.
03:30Because in the night they're make...
03:34Mejor ni digo que ni de.
03:36Okay.
03:36She make milk.
03:37Fake milk.
03:38Fake milk and give to them.
03:40Give it a bath to the baby.
03:42And just take care of the baby like it's a real one.
03:45And I put a little bit of water.
03:53And so I have put the dress.
03:56So this is like a little bit heavy, like seven pounds.
04:01And...
04:02She's ready.
04:03Are you afraid like maybe your kids are going to be, especially the younger ones, a bit confused about the
04:07dolls?
04:08They don't confuse it because when we have our first daughter, we present to her and tell them like you
04:14have to take care because they have a new brother, they don't want them, you know?
04:19And they reject them.
04:20And that's why we use them as preparing them.
04:23They learn to be patient and take care of them.
04:27How many babies have you met?
04:30That's a good question.
04:31Too many.
04:33Hundreds, I think.
04:34I search on the internet.
04:36And I like that mouth.
04:38I like that nose.
04:40I like that ears and everything.
04:42And she makes one baby from her imagination.
04:46Sometimes we make for people.
04:48Sometimes we make our own babies.
04:50To remember when they were babies.
04:54This one here and that one in there, they are not human babies.
04:57No.
04:58This is the head of a...
05:01English bulldog.
05:02English bulldog.
05:03It comes like this.
05:07It's famous.
05:10What is the price of one of these babies?
05:13One of her babies sold like for 10,000 dollars.
05:18It's like art.
05:19They are looking for...
05:21Limited edition.
05:22Limited edition, one of a kind.
05:24They collected like watches or you collect candles or whatever and they appreciate it like real art, you know?
05:31But also couples, young couples and they are trying to have babies but they cannot...
05:38I don't know it's complicated or something but then they get one baby like this and suddenly it's not so
05:44much stress to get a real baby and they get pregnant suddenly, you know?
05:48That's also therapy babies.
05:50So you think for some people this is therapeutic?
05:53Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:54Yeah, yeah.
05:55A hundred percent.
05:56Yes.
05:56You're looking at criticism of negative comments.
05:59Yeah, it's all in social media, you know?
06:02Social media they are haters and they are followers and that's this world.
06:07And some people think it's weird.
06:09These are super creepy, not for me.
06:12Horrible.
06:13They look dead.
06:15Oh, yeah.
06:15Mutilating and blocking.
06:17These two are creepy.
06:19Sometimes we don't go out with our babies because we know already that it's going to be a lot of
06:25people.
06:26Okay.
06:27There it's time.
06:33If we go like for a shopping center or a mall or something, all the people come, I don't know
06:38what they think.
06:39Sometimes they look at you.
06:42Some people they are afraid but in three minutes they say I want one of those.
06:54I would love to get one. They look real and beautiful.
06:59Green baby.
07:00Green baby.
07:01We are not creating like monsters or something.
07:04We are creating like real babies to take care.
07:07Do you have a message for people who have judged you?
07:10For people who are judging us, you have to know us better
07:15and get involved with this kind of art.
07:17It's very easy sometimes to judge somebody, you know, for something.
07:21But if you give yourself the opportunity to look, to check it out and everything,
07:26I think I'm 100% sure that you will love them.
07:30Because I was like all these people before, you know?
07:33Do you think when your kids get old, adults, do you want them to also do the same thing?
07:38To have adults for their kids?
07:40Yeah.
07:41I think I'm 100% sure that the kids are going to take care of them.
07:44Because they are very artistic, they like the kids.
07:48Are you planning on having more babies? Real or reborn?
07:53Reborn.
07:54I want real ones.
07:57We started this years ago and we are very used to this kind of life, you know?
08:03I can't imagine a life without this stuff.
08:06Yeah.
08:08Yeah.
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