Reborn with Me! Stuffing & Weighting Your Reborn Doll 201: Calculating Lifelike Reborn Baby Weight

Welcome back to another episode of Reborn with Me!

In Stuffing & Weighting 101, we talked about all the cool stuff you can use to add weight to your reborn doll.

Today, we're going to talk about how much weight you need and where to put that weight so that your doll baby feels just like a real baby in your arms.

First, you don't need as much weight as you may have thought. Real babies are mostly water. 7lbs of mostly water feels a lot lighter than 7lbs of glass beads. This is known as the "dead weight" effect. In other words, if you want your doll to feel like it weighs 7lbs, it needs to weigh a bit less than that.

Secondly, where you place the weight plays an important role in the making your doll feel lifelike. A newborn baby carries 25% of her weight in her head. That is why you have to support the head when handling an infant or newborn sized reborn doll. However, toddlers have considerably less of their weight in their head. In fact, an adult only carries 8% of her total weight in her head. So, for true lifelike-likeness, the amount of weight you put in each body part should be appropriate for the age and size of your baby doll.

So how do you know how much weight you need and where?

Over the years, I've combined medical research with my doll weighting experience to develop an algorithm for weighting my dolls to feel as real as possible. For the first time in my career, I'm making that algorithm available to other artists in my Real Feel Lifelike Reborn Baby Weight Calculator. And I've summarized all my math into an easy 10-step process. Just fill in the yellow boxes and the calculator does the rest!

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Introduction:    • You're Invited to Reborn with Me!  
1. Getting Started:    • Reborn with Me! Part 1: Getting Started  
2. Kit Preparation:    • Reborn with Me! Part 2: Washing the D...  
3a. How and Why to Base Coat:    • Reborn with Me! Part 3A: How and Why ...  
3b. How to Base Coat the Head:    • Reborn with Me! Part 3b: How to Paint...  
4a. Mottling Part 1:    • Reborn with Me! Part 4a: Mottling Lif...  
4b: Mottling Part 2:    • Reborn with Me! Part 4b: Mottling Lif...  
5: Veining:    • Reborn with Me! Part 5: Realistic Reb...  
5a: Blue Shaing:    • Reborn with Me! Part 5: Blue Shading ...  
6a: Complexion Layers:    • Reborn with Me! Part 6a: Painting Lif...  
6b: How Many Complexion Layers?    • Reborn with Me! Part 6b: How Many Com...  
6c: Second Complexion Layer:    • Reborn with Me! Part 6c: Adding the S...  
7a: General Blushing:    • Reborn with Me! Part 7a: Blushing Reb...  
8a: Creases Part 1:    • Reborn with Me! Part 8a: Creasing Reb...  1
8b: Creasing & Shading the face:    • Reborn with Me! Part 8b: Creasing and...  
7b.1: Accent Blushing 1: Feet:    • Reborn with Me! Part 7b.1: Reborn Dol...  
7b.2: Accent Blushing 2: Face:    • Reborn with Me! Part 7b.2: Reborn Dol...  
7b.3: Accent Blushing 3: Hands:    • Reborn with Me! Part 7b.3: Reborn Dol...  
9: Sweet Spot Blushing:    • Reborn with Me! Part 9: Blushing Rebo...  
10: Lip & Nail Detail:    • Reborn with Me! Part 10: Painting Reb...  
11. Skin Texturing/Sealing:    • Reborn with Me! Part 11: Creating Lif...  
12: Gloss and Celebrate!    • Reborn with Me! Part 12: Reborn Baby ...  
13: Rooting Plan Part 1:    • Reborn with Me! Part 13: Drawing a Mi...  
14: Rooting Plan Part 2:    • Reborn with Me! Part 14: Drawing a Mi...  
15: Rooting Directionally:    • Reborn with Me! Part 15: MicroRooting...  
16: More Rooting:    • Reborn with Me! Part 16: How to Micro...  
17. Rooting Lanugo/Peach Fuzz:    • Reborn with Me! Part 17: Rooting Lanu...  
18: Sealing Rooted Hair & Magnets:    • Reborn with Me! Part Gluing and Seali...  
19: Gluing Eyelashes:    • Reborn with Me! Part Gluing and Seali...  
20: Resin Baby Tears:    • Reborn with Me! Resin for Perfect Bab...  
21: How to Shampoo Mohair:    • Reborn with Me! Baby's First Shampoo:...  
22: Weighting Materials:    • Reborn with Me! Stuffing & Weighting ...  

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