EP99. How Labour & Delivery are Portrayed in Movies vs. Reality

The Mom Room

Renee Reina & Podcast Nation

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

EP99. Contractions come on quick. The couple rushes to the hospital. They are admitted right away. A few uncomfortable contraction later and she is pushing. After 3-5 screams, the baby pops out and the doctor puts them on the mother's chest. She starts sobbing. Cut to the scene where they are happily walking out of the hospital with their new baby. If only this was reality. The truth is, the overwhelming majority of birth stories do not play out like this. In this episode, Renee discusses the differences between what we see on TV vs. reality. Book recommendation: The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin. This episode is sponsored by Better Help. Visit www.betterhelp.com/momroom to get 10% off your first month. THE MOM ROOM: Instagram: @themomroompodcast | @the.mom.room www.themomroompodcast.com TikTok: @the.mom.room Facebook Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:14.4	parents nationwide. Welcome to the mom room podcast. My name is Renee Rina and I am definitely the mom friend
1:34.6	you have always wanted. Hello and welcome to the Thursday solo episode. Today I wanted to talk a little bit
1:43.0	about how labor and delivery of a child,
1:47.4	of a baby, of a woman having a baby, is portrayed in the movies and on TV and how that is
1:56.7	damaging to our expectations of what labor and delivery is going to be like, which then leads to
2:04.9	some people feeling let down because it wasn't, you know, the experience that they expected to
2:11.4	have and so on and so on. And then just some ridiculous things that we always see on
2:16.8	TV or in the movies, when people have babies.
2:20.4	That is just not accurate in real life.
2:24.5	I am recording this on Wednesday morning.
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