Our Visit to Babyland General Hospital

For those who might not know, Babyland General is the origin of Cabbage Patch kids in Cleveland, GA. It is about an hour away from us. We have visited a couple times over the years but it has been a long time ago. We had not been back since they had moved to their new larger facility.

The camp meeting revival for our church denomination started this weekend at the campground up in Cleveland, GA and my father was to receive an award pin for 25 years of service as a minister at last night's service. We decided to go up early and visit Babyland and then went over to the camp ground and had dinner with my father and attended services. Such memories as this is the camp ground that I attended so many youth camps as a kid. The visit to Babyland was lots of fun as well being that I love all kinds of dolls and Marissa has always been my biggest supporter in my reborning babies.

The new facility is just fabulous and I took lots of photos to share with those of you who have never been there. Since there are so many photos, I loaded them up at pbase and you can view them at this link: http://www.pbase.com/mox/visit_to_babyland_general

One of the things that is new since my kids were little and last there is that they now have 3 levels of dolls. They have the original all hand made babies/kids that start at $199 for a bald preemie and go up to $300 for a toddler kid. Then they have the boxed dolls that you see in all the toy stores and can buy most any place. The new to us thing is they have the Babyland Exclusive dolls now. These dolls are the more economical version of being able to adopt a baby. They have the cloth sculpted bodies and plastic heads that take a pacifier. They come in a nice baby outfit. These dolls are somewhat like the boxed dolls in the way they are made and are mass produced with the Xavier Roberts signature stamp on the tushy. However, you can not buy them any place other than Babyland General. Also, when you adopt one, you get to go register your baby's name with them and they give you a birth certificate and put your baby's registry in their book. These dolls were $49.99 and just adorable. Marissa decided she wanted to get one. They have these babies placed throughout one side of the store in little cabbage heads where you can "pick your baby from the cabble" and they also have them in cribs if you see one in a crib you would rather have. These are a great doll for kids and adults alike who want an affordable CP doll. If I had not just spent out all my PP monies I would have gotten one for myself! There was an original CP bald baby in the nursery for $225 that would have been my take home pick had I had that money too!

Here is Marissa with her new baby, which can also been seen with the many other photos at the link above.

Here she is picking her baby from the cabbage.


In the lobby there is a large cabbage chair where you can take a photo with your baby.