Recommended Order Of steps In Creating Your Baby
(click any step for more information on that step)
1. Optional
factory hair paint removal
2. Permanent Eyebrows and Veins
3. Color wash and blushing
4. Nail painting
5. Hair rooting or wig
placement
6. Attaching eyelashes
7. Assembling the body
This guide is for the last step, step #7, assembling the body.
Preparing The Head For Placing On The Body
If you are giving your baby an optional magnetic pacifier, use a
glue such as our E6000 (item #248) to glue a rare earth magnet behind
the baby’s mouth. Making sure you glue the right side of the magnet
to the mouth so that the pacifier with magnet will attract rather than
push away from the magnet inside of the head. If you have opened the
nose and/or mouth, you will need to place dark purple (our item #255)
felt behind them to prevent weighting material or stuffing from showing
through. Cut a square of felt and place it just above and behind the
nose. If the mouth is open too cut the piece large enough to cover the
mouth opening as well and glue piece lightly with Gem Tack, just above
the nose openings on the inside of the head. You want to be sure not
to let any glue get in the nose or mouth openings.
If you have a bag of plastic pellets from your dolls original body,
then place this bag in the dolls head for weighting. If you do not have
this bag of pellets, place a nylon stocking (our item #265 or #266)
that is either seamed or tied on one end inside the dolls head and fill
with Poly-Pellets (our item #218). Tie the end of the bag off. If there
is excess space inside the head fill with Poly-fill stuffing (our item
#217).
Stuffing The Body
Fill the arms and legs about ¼ the way full of Poly-fill
(#217). Fill two tied off lengths of nylon stocking with 2 ½
ounces of Poly-Pellets (#218) in each stocking and tie. Place these
pellet bags into the arms and fill with a little more Poly-Fil in the
ends of the arms until you achieve the desired feel.
Fill two nylon stockings with 3 ½ ounces of pellets each.
Place the pellets bags into the legs and fill with a little more Poly-Fill
in the ends of the legs until you achieve the desired feel.
Stuffing The Torso
Place a small amount of stuffing in the bottom of the torso and
then add a 1 ½ pound bag of pellets. Fill the rest of the torso
with Poly-fill. If you want a little more weight and want the neck to
be more floppy add a 5 ounce bag of pellets to the very top of the torso.
Filling The Limbs With Pellets
Place a nylon stocking in each of the limbs. Fill the stocking with
pellets and tie the stocking off at the top. If you want the feel of
heavier limbs, place a nylon stocking in each limb and fill the hands
and feet with metal pellets. Tie the stocking and fill the rest of the
limb with Poly-Fill.
Attaching The Head And Limbs To The Body.
If you are using one of our body kits or one of our Bountiful Baby
cloth bodies, cable ties are already inserted for you. If not, you will
need a 14”cable tie for the neck and 4 cable ties 8” long
or in some cases longer for the arms and legs.
Thread the cable ties through the casings on the neck and limbs.
Thread the ends of the cable tie together and pull slightly. Place the
arms on the body. Pull the ties as you adjust the fabric to be gathered
evenly around your tie. Pull the tie tightly using your hemostats (our
item #276) or a pair of needle nose pliers (such as our item #250 or
#282). Place the legs on your doll in the same manner.
Place the head on top of the body and pull the cable tie tighter
slowly. Adjust the fabric as you go. You will want to get the tie on
the neck tight enough that it will not fall off, but lose enough that
the head can still be turned for posing.
Cut the ends of the cable ties off smoothly with your cuticle nippers.
Yes, normal cutters will also cut cable ties (like our items #251 or
#283), but cuticle nippers create a cut that feels almost polished!
Also, these precision nippers have a cutting head with an angled design
to help you more clearly see where and what you are cutting.
Be sure to note the time. Your beautiful baby is born!
Dressing Your Baby
You have created the most realistic baby doll ever. Your little
one needs real baby clothing to finish the effect. Our Bountiful Baby
Boutique store offers many beautiful outfits to fit your Reborn baby
perfectly. Babies with 21” newborn bodies will need a size Newborn
or 0-3 month outfit. Most smaller reborns can wear a preemie size. Remember
the diapers and t-shirt too. We prefer newborn size Huggies diapers
for our babies. They fit wonderfully and have Velcro tabs for easy changing.
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