Comments on How Cruel Movies Are To Expectant Women

Last time I was pregnant with my son, the final installment of the Twilight series came out. In which, you recall, a vampire baby clawed it's way out of Bella's previously unblemished, alabaster tummy. I tried not to draw comparisons but since I was nine months pregnant it was a totally futile effort.

I borrowed the book from a co-worker. Upon returning it, I asked why she didn't warn me. She didn't want to ruin it for me.

I was not amused. 

These last couple months when I was pregnant and also when I wasn't so pregnant, I was watching The Walking Dead and Ridley Scott's Alien movies. Poor choice, Nicky, poor choice.

In a recent episode of The Walking Dead a pregnant lady pondered whether her baby, if stillborn, would become a zombie inside of her and eat her from the inside out.

!!!!!!!

I can't stop thinking about this. Surely her baby will be born alive, but if, if her baby dies there be a ZOMBIE BABY. And it would be surrounded my yummy, alive, pulsating flesh. And it would eat it's way out. Joyfully (Sadly? Kinda wanted to see that...) this didn't happen.


In the Aliens sequel Prometheus, a lady had an alien implanted into her uterus and then decided to have a do-it-yourself C-Section. Having had a c-section, I can say that it wasn't accurate at all (there are layers of muscle and fat to get through, people!), but nonetheless the image stays with me. Seconds before her uterus explodes apart via alien, a robot surgeon pulls an alien squid from her belly. "Ma-ma!"

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After her impromptu surgery, Noomi Rapace initially wanders around as if in pain, but then she just suits up and runs around the creepy alien planet. I am not a doctor (Speak up if you are!) but I am fairly sure her staples would come out.

Surely, whatever happens in a real pregnancy has got to be better than what pop culture is putting into our brains. :)