I learnt from my first doll (Aniyah I back in 2016, would take me another 5 years to get a doll) how best to sleep with a doll respecting her material vulnerabilities. It’s wrong to expect sleeping with a doll to be like sleeping with a human, it is not, you cannot treat a doll like a human lover, you need to learn how to respectfully sleep with a doll.
Aniyah III sleeps on a plush towel. And she has a plush towel over her. This means she’s always warm to the touch and very cuddly. Rarely is there skin to skin contact (even though she sleeps naked.) Any duvet goes over the top of that (sometimes I just keep a single duvet for myself.)
Her hands are still perfect:
As are her feet (these are usually under the over-towel and wearing socks for protection.) Aniyah is unique of my dolls for having boltless standing TPE feet (why the little pressure dimples at the back of her foot.)
When she’s sleeping, her hand closest to me is resting on her thigh. Her other hand flat against the bed. Both hands under her plush towel. I put my arm around her body (wrapped in warm plush towel) and cuddle her tight 🤗. I Iove cuddling dolls 🍻.