Frantic Australian police smashed a window to rescue a seemingly unconscious baby from a locked vehicle in Queensland last week only to find it was an extremely lifelike doll.

The embarrassing mistake, made in regional Gympie, is not an isolated incident and passionate creator of the "reborn" baby dolls, Vynette Cernik, knows just how easily they can be mistaken for the real thing.

Cernik said last week's case of mistaken identity mirrored a similar incident in the U.S. when the window of a new Hummer was broken by police trying to rescue a "baby" that turned out to be a doll belonging to the owner's wife.

Selling for up to $1000, the painstakingly hand-painted dolls were so lifelike with eyelashes, fingernails, milk spots and wispy hair that they were constantly fooling people, Cernik said.

"They're even weighted to feel like a baby's weight and they flop like a baby," she said.

The dolls can even come with umbilical cords, cord clamps and their own birth certificates.

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