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.

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.

Here is a list of things I learned about childbirth based on Hollywood:

1) The woman would be screaming at the man, saying "I blame you for this!"
2) 100% of new mothers use the Lamaze breathing technique
3) Babies are huge

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.

What movie and TV births most shaped your perceptions of childbirth? And what did you learn about childbirth from these births??