Pregnancyis simultaneously one of the most stressful and wonderful things a woman can go through in her life.
Experts have weighed in on what movies get wrong about pregnancy, and these are their biggest gripes.
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In mega-hitWhat to Expect When You’re Expecting, Elizabeth Banks memorablybreaks downat a baby expo.
After struggling to conceive, she realizes pregnancy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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This is prevalent in pregnancy-related movies.
It’s sadly rare to see a woman getting ready to take on raising a child alone.
If she kept the baby, would Juno have kept him too?
As Burke explains, “Hollywood tends to stigmatize women getting pregnant without a partner.
Pregnant women are vacuous
As Risa Klein, CNM, OB/GYN NP, M.S.
Unfortunately, movies don’t present this reality effectively.
Even Skyler’s birth is glamorous and goes off without a hitch (withhilariously minimal pain).
Rather than, you know, just painfully pushing ‘em out and getting it over with.
Klein reckons movies have a responsibility to show empowered women with caring birth providers looking after them.
“These stage moms could become positive role models for women of childbearing age watching the films.
Not to mention providers ill prepared to work with a woman about to meet her new baby!”
As she advises, childbirth is a massive achievement and movies should treat it as such.
Women deserve respect and Hollywood needs to write the parts,” Klein argued emphatically.
Movies often compound these feelings with inaccurate depictions of the process.
That’s just the reality films present.
Parikh actually points to the infamousbirth scenefromKnocked Upto illustrate how Hollywood treats the moment “like an exorcism.”
As he argues, “The goal of childbirth isn’t to scream at the top of your lungs.
If they break prematurely, i.e.
before 37 weeks, contractions may not ensue for days to weeks.”
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TakeBaby Mama, the rather lovely Tina Fey-Amy Poehler pregnancy comedythat Dr. Risa Klein assisted on.
Once Poehler’s character’swater breaks, she’s rushed to the hospital.
The baby arrives soon after, natch.
Check out Keri Russell inWaitress, glowing and gorgeousimmediately afterwards.
As Dr. Kecia Gaither explains, there are actually lots of dermatological conditions that can come up during pregnancy.
“Some women will develop ‘the mask of pregnancy’ also called cholasma.
Most women additionally get the ‘linea negra’ or the black line down the abdomen.
I’ve never seen a pregnant woman [in a] film with either.
All the bellies are perfect, too, and the faces are perfect,” she stated.
Gaither notes, however, it’s not just the belly that swells or changes shape during pregnancy.
“Women can swell.
All the pregnant ladies I see on TV/in films don’t look swollen to me,” she noted.
Can we just get realistic pregnancy bodies already?
