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When I was a kid, I had a few Cabbage Patch Dolls. (Hey, I bet most of you did, too!)

I remember when the preemie ones came out and I have to say, now that I've had a premature baby? I think that that is one of the most disturbing toys I've ever heard of. Really, they should come with a little toy plastic incubator and a respirator machine, don't you think? Then little girls can play doctor and mommy at the same time!

Bah, don't mind me, I haven't had my caffeine yet today.

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Ha ha ha, yeah! I actually never had any, but I have an adult friend who collected them as a teenager and still has dozens of them.

I also had one of the Cabbage Patch Koosa's, which was the highly disturbing 'pet' that was really a cat or dog head on a cabbage patch body.

Yeah...looking back on those is a little freaky. And people wonder where the idea of furries came from? Obviously, it started in the Cabbage Patch!

I was a little young for CPK--my sister was all about them, though--but I do vaguely remember the premies. It really is kinda gruesome, innit?

At the Cabbage Patch hospital, there were incubators.

Wow...that just sort of creeps me out. I really didn't think of my son being premature as something that would be cool to play. It would be a little like playing chemo or something. Ick.

There were incubators and such for the preemies in the stores where they were sold ---at least in NY, where the Cabbage Patch stores looked like hospitals. The staff was dressed as docs and nurses.

I do have to admit I've been on the hunt for a realistic preemie doll. {not for my kids though!} I've started knitting for a charity that makes preemie clothes and blankets, and I have NO idea if my sizes are even close. It would be a lot easier to design hats and stuff if I had a doll that was close.

You know, my son was smaller than the Cabbage Patch dolls by a LOT, so those certainly wouldn't help. :/

The hats were the worst for him. Preemies have such astonishingly small heads. We had the roll the little brims three and four times.

The charity says to use a lemon as a guide. TINY. I just finished a little sweater, and its so little!

They should come with the $500,000 bill as well, just for realism.

Yeah, no kidding. Add in a few IV's and then have to leave the baby at the hospital when you head home. Loads of fun for everyone!

I had 2 preemie's so, yeah... I'm a tad disturbed by the idea of a preemie toy. Although, Cabbage Patch Babies creeped me out in general.

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