That’s because she’s found “baby hearts in my oven,” Berry said, adding her husband, Mark, has been freaked out in the middle of the night by baby heads on the banister.

Of course they are not real. But they look real.

“It doesn’t bother me, but in public when I poke a needle in the baby’s head” they may feel uncomfortable, she joked about how she puts hair on dolls she makes.

If you put one of her dolls up against a real baby, it’s hard to tell the difference, she said.

“But mine don’t move,” she added. “It’s funny to see people’s responses.”

About four years ago Berry started making reborn babies. They are called that because when the hobby first started people used old dolls and fixed them up.

Now, thanks to modern-day kits, the dolls look so real she’s been able to trick people on accident and on purpose.

She takes them to rest homes to comfort seniors. Once, a staff member didn’t know she made dolls.

“That’s not a doll,” Berry said he commented, adding that compliments like that are her favorite. “Even the staff was blown away.”

Berry, who has two children of her own, really enjoys her hobby because she loved having babies.

“It went all to quickly. The outcome of creating these dolls gives me a baby fix,” she said, holding baby doll Kyle over her shoulder, bouncing him up and down and patting him on the back.

“I do get attached to them. I like buying their clothes and dressing them,” she said.

Berry has become immersed in the three-dimensional artwork. She makes them as real as possible by researching photos. She uses a drill to open their nostrils, a stamp to make different skin tons and oil paint for veins and other features.

“I paint every nook and cranny,” she said, adding each of up to seven layers of paint is dried in the oven. Smaller appendages can be cooked in a warmer.

She even uses gloss to give their lips a wet look and magnetic pacifiers.

Berry is working on her first toddler. It is modeled after her daughter, Ashley, when she was 2 years old.

“Definitely the toddler is going in the oven,” Berry said, laughing.

She said it takes about two days to make the dolls, but five to do the hair. She needlepoints the hair one or two strands at a time.

“It’s a long, tedious technique,” she said.

She has studied hair growth patterns and is now using angora goat hair because it is more realistically soft like a baby’s. Her babies sell for $250 to $500, but she’s seen others go for $4,000.

Because of the price, she is still looking for her niche to sell the product. She’s tried some craft shows, but people aren’t usually willing to spend that much. So she relies on eBay and is hoping Christmas will be big or maybe a specialty store would work.

The stay-at-home mom got involved in the hobby by accident. She ordered one online, and when it arrived it was broken. She contacted the seller, who said she could only help Berry fix it. When she took it apart, Berry said, “I can do this.” And she has.

She enjoys taking the dolls to care centers for seniors because, “They enjoy seeing my dolls and telling stories” about their own children or dolls.

The doll might help a senior remember something in their childhood. Or a mother may have lost a child.

“That’s therapy in itself,” she said. “They can immortalize what their kid looked like.”

Berry, who can be found at Facebook.com/4EverAngels, said it was intimidating at first selling her creations. You “feel it” when you make something so it can be hard to put it out there for critique from the public eye.

She said it also can be hard selling them because of her attachment.

“I always give them a kiss and tell them I hope they like their new mom,” she said.

She has one rule for buyers.

“They can’t use the carpool lanes,” she said with a smile.