https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:22:48 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-movies-and-tv-shows-depicting-childbirth-shaped-your-perceptions-of-childbirth-the-most#post-247230 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:37:15 +0000 Bookish 247230@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladyfingers: Haha it's so good! It made me cry sooo hard when I first watched it. </p> <p>I'll also add that 'A Baby Story' on TLC is amazing, and I used to watch it all the time when we had cable. It very much concerned my DH-then boyfriend. hehe. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-movies-and-tv-shows-depicting-childbirth-shaped-your-perceptions-of-childbirth-the-most#post-247228 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:34:31 +0000 ladyfingers 247228@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bookworm: OMG "For Keeps"! I remember that, I used to love that movie. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-movies-and-tv-shows-depicting-childbirth-shaped-your-perceptions-of-childbirth-the-most#post-247222 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:30:07 +0000 Running Elley 247222@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Father of the Bride II! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-movies-and-tv-shows-depicting-childbirth-shaped-your-perceptions-of-childbirth-the-most#post-247218 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:27:49 +0000 MrsMccarthy 247218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Look Who's Talking. It was the whole give me the drugs time period. I never thought i would end up one of those natural birth advocaters but here i am. Thanks to The Business of Being Born. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-movies-and-tv-shows-depicting-childbirth-shaped-your-perceptions-of-childbirth-the-most#post-247208 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:20:25 +0000 Mrs.M57 247208@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I too was really into Tlc "a baby story" it seems to just show the toughest/most dramatic parts of labor! It was ok to get info on meds and natural birth/medicated. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-movies-and-tv-shows-depicting-childbirth-shaped-your-perceptions-of-childbirth-the-most#post-247202 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:13:19 +0000 Bookish 247202@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not so much childbirth but a movie that really brought home being pregnant/a mother in general was "For Keeps," an 80s movie with Molly Ringwald. In it, she talks about her hemorrhoids and deals with postpartum depression. It made a HUGE impression on me. I need to go rent it... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-movies-and-tv-shows-depicting-childbirth-shaped-your-perceptions-of-childbirth-the-most#post-247149 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:30:21 +0000 anonysquire 247149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I really like watching the shows on TLC like baby story and stuff. Maybe those are not very accurate? I never thought of it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-movies-and-tv-shows-depicting-childbirth-shaped-your-perceptions-of-childbirth-the-most#post-247146 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:28:31 +0000 chopsuey 247146@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No movies.. I went straight to the YouTube vids of live real births! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-movies-and-tv-shows-depicting-childbirth-shaped-your-perceptions-of-childbirth-the-most#post-247138 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:21:18 +0000 mrbee 247138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is how often actresses have to simulate labor and pretend to give birth on camera! Seriously, I bet they teach how to "give birth" to students at Julliard. I bet it's way harder than it looks to pretend to give birth.</p> <p>Anyway since I'd never attended a birth before Bee went into labor with Charlie, movie and TV shows were my only source of knowledge about the birthing process. Jennifer Aniston in Friends... Katherine Heigl in Knocked Up... Jenna Fischer in the Office... those are just a few that come to mind. </p> <p>Here is a list of things I learned about childbirth based on Hollywood:</p> <p>1) The woman would be screaming at the man, saying "I blame you for this!"<br /> 2) 100% of new mothers use the Lamaze breathing technique<br /> 3) Babies are huge</p> <p>Re: #3, it turns out that you can't use a real newborn in California until they are 15 days old. So they use "professional preemies" - babies that were born premature, so that 15 days old they are still kind of newborn looking.</p> <p>What movie and TV births most shaped your perceptions of childbirth? And what did you learn about childbirth from these births?? </p>