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* Jenny in the 1897 arc of ''Series/DarkShadows'' has a couple of these. [[spoiler: She keeps them under the belief they're her twin children, who have been taken from her as infants.]]
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This trope is when a mother, in a delusion, thinks that a doll is her child. It can be caused by guilt due to ParentalAbandonment, trauma or artificial means. But no matter the means, the result is that the mother treats a doll as her child. If the real child is still around, she may treat him as an impostor, for added irony and [[TearJerker sadness]]. The best-case scenario is that the mother is so wrapped up that she doesn't even realize that her real child is standing in front of her, and she thinks that the child is a stranger.
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This trope is when a mother, in a delusion, thinks that a doll {{doll|s}} is her child. It can be caused by guilt due to ParentalAbandonment, trauma or artificial means. But no matter the means, the result is that the mother treats a doll as her child. If the real child is still around, she may treat him as an impostor, for added irony and [[TearJerker sadness]]. The best-case scenario is that the mother is so wrapped up that she doesn't even realize that her real child is standing in front of her, and she thinks that the child is a stranger.
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* In ''{{Film/Terrifier}},'' In the apartment, Tara encounters a woman only credited as Cat Lady.
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* In ''{{Film/Terrifier}},'' In the apartment, Tara encounters a woman only credited as Cat Lady.Lady who cradles a baby doll that she believes is her child.
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* In ''Film/TheBoy'', an elderly couple hire a nanny to look after their "son", a porcelain doll called Brahms, including setting out food for it and telling it bedtime stories. A neighbor explains to the nanny that the real Brahms died many years ago, and they've been "parenting" the doll in his stead ever since. [[spoiler: Subverted, as their son is actually alive, but is a violent adult MadwomanInTheAttic who spies on the nanny from hidden passages in the walls.]]
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* In ''Film/TheBoy'', ''Film/TheBoy,'' an elderly couple hire a nanny to look after their "son", a porcelain doll called Brahms, including setting out food for it and telling it bedtime stories. A neighbor explains to the nanny that the real Brahms died many years ago, and they've been "parenting" the doll in his stead ever since. [[spoiler: Subverted, as their son is actually alive, but is a violent adult MadwomanInTheAttic who spies on the nanny from hidden passages in the walls.]]
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* In ''{{Film/Terrifier}},'' In the apartment, Tara encounters a woman only credited as Cat Lady.
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* ''VideoGame/LiesOfP'': One early sidequest involves a woman, suffering from petrification disease and nearly blind, who asks you to find her baby daughter among the people who sought refuge from the rampaging puppets in Krat City Hall. You only ever find piles of corpses there, but you can instead give her baby doll to care for. It's up to you to decide whether to admit that it's just a lifeless doll or if you'll leave her to her delusion.
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• “VideoGame/Fatal FrameMaskOfTheLunarEclipse: Kageri Sendou treats a life-sized doll made to replicate her dead sister as though it is alive.
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• “VideoGame/Fatal FrameMaskOfTheLunarEclipse: “VideoGame/FatalFrameMaskOfTheLunarEclipse: Kageri Sendou treats a life-sized doll made to replicate her dead sister as though it is alive.
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• “VideoGame/Fatal Frame:MaskoftheLunarEclipse: Kageri Sendou treats a life-sized doll made to replicate her dead sister as though it is alive.
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• “VideoGame/Fatal Frame:MaskoftheLunarEclipse: FrameMaskOfTheLunarEclipse: Kageri Sendou treats a life-sized doll made to replicate her dead sister as though it is alive.
