How do you explain to your dog that it's babies are stuffed animals? 

My dog use to give his "babies" baths regularly...But now he picks them up and whimpers and nudges at them like he thinks they're dead 

Then he gives me evil looks like I had something to do with it

Ooohhhh the drama...Anyone else deal with pet stuff like this?

When my Boo Bear was alive he thought they were all prey.  He would throw them up in the air, catch them, and shake the stuffing out of them.  Til the stuff would literally come out of them.

Buddy Dog is totally emotional and thinks he has to mother everything

Of coarse if anything goes wrong it's all my fault...I control the universe ya know...LOL

I think you have an unusual dog. Hope he/she for gives you and forgets soon,

Back in around... 5th grade, I had a golden retriever anmed Bailey who decided to adopt a rather bedragled looking stuffed gorilla that someone threw out the window of a school bus. He carried around that gorilla and cuddled it for weeks, though eventually he started to lose interest. It was kind of adorable. x3

I did some reading on animal behaviour some years ago to relate it to something else.

I recall that neurosis in dogs is very similar to humans but without the restraints of social conflict. (Since a dog's society is you, presumably).

You simply need to deal with it as a neurotic behaviour and manage in much the same way as in humans.

I don't believe he is neurotic. But rather a loving and caring animal that would rather have living, breathing babies as apposed to lifeless stuffed toys