There's a surprising link between infants taken to hospital in Brazil seeking medical help and a baby taken into parliament by a Brazilian politician: they're not real.

Known as "reborn dolls", these "hyper-realistic" baby figures have taken off in the South American country, reported AP , but not everyone thinks this trend is healthy.

Eerie resemblance

If you "blink", you could "mistake" them for the real thing, said the South China Morning Post . Bearing an "eerie resemblance to an actual infant", the dolls "cry, suck dummies, pee, and have nails, eyelashes and veins". Unlike the "waxy, smooth complexion" of traditional dolls, they have realistically "puckered features and blotchy skin".

They first arrived in the United States in the early 1990s, "targeting adults chiefly", but

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