Yesterday, I watched the last Bridget Jones movie, and a thought came to my mind that comes so frequently as I watch movies... why are the birth scenes always so over-dramatized, and often very unreal?
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Have you ever noticed that in movies it is normal that the birth process starts when the water breaks? This in itself can happen, but it is just as normal that it starts with small contractions. And, in movies the water breaks and everything goes crazy and everything is just shouting and screaming until the baby is born... it feels so unreal, at least if you have ever seen a child-birth... Even if the water breaks, and you do get contractions quickly, there is always a break in between the different contractions, and normally this is lasting lots of minutes. Even during the birth process itself when the baby is actually coming out, there is often a break of at least 30-60 seconds between the contractions.
In other words, I feel like the birth scenes in movies, and especially how the entire process starts, is so unreal in many movies, and it kind of annoys me, and it is giving a very wrong impression to future moms of what childbirth is really like.
What do you think?