It is difficult to later imagine how small a preterm child was when it was born. Parents forget over time and the child may have questions and concerns when he / she gets bigger. Relatives who did not get a chance to see the child themselves can not imagine how small the baby was.
A child born prematurely are often lean and regular chubby dolls bears no resemblance to the small premature infants. Preemies are often also more stretched than full-term babies, they still had plenty of room in the womb at birth. With this pattern you can sew a realistic doll of that size as the child was when it was born.
The pattern is in English and has instructions on how to make a doll from gestational week 13 up to full-term 40 weeks.
The pattern is copied and printed out a percentage depending on the size of the desired doll. Now you can order the pattern of the finished size. See below what size you want for your preemiedoll.
110% 50.8 cm 3175 grams 40 weeks
100% 48.3 cm 2722 grams 38 weeks
95% 45.7 cm 2495 grams 36 weeks
90% 43.2 cm 2268 grams 34 weeks
85% 40.6 cm 1814 grams 32 weeks
80% 38.1 cm 1361 grams 30 weeks
75% 35.6 cm 1134 grams 28 weeks
70% 33.0 cm 907 grams 26 weeks
65% 30.5 cm 680 grams 24 weeks
60% 27.9 cm 453 grams 22 weeks
55% 25.4 cm 340 grams 20 weeks
50% 22.9 cm 227 grams 18 weeks
45% 20.3 cm - 17 weeks
40% 17.8 cm - 16 weeks
35% 15.2 cm - 15 weeks
30% 12.7 cm - 14 weeks
25% 10.2 cm - 13 weeks
Now you can order a pre-sewn doll after the desired weight and length here .
It is Sandy Eding who have developed this pattern and she is herself the mother of a small preemie born in week 25.
© 2004 Sandy Eding and © 1978 Judi Ward
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