Meet the women who paints human baby dolls and makes them look so life-like, that she sometimes struggles to let them go. Susan Gibbs, 49, a silicone artist from Canada, has been painting newborns ...

Would you like a hyper-realistic silicone doll that looks and feels just like a real baby, complete with umbilical cord? How about one with tattoos on its face? Or a baby alien from the film Avatar?

There’s just one thing about the infants Kunz photographs: They’re made out of silicone. Reborns--lifelike baby dolls--are an international phenomenon. They first popped up in the US ...

The experience of rearing a baby is a rite of passage for many families ... which creates lifelike silicone dolls. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Coly spoke about learning the ropes ...