Grassi, 43, says he "wept like a baby" when Jandrisevits gifted him and his wife a doll missing part of its lower arm several months before the birth of Emma last October. "For me as her father ...

By August of this year, Jandrisevits has designed and sewed almost 400 of the special dolls in her Wisconsin dining room, each creation uniquely mirroring the child or baby to whom it’s being given.