babydust27

is it just me or is EVERYONE pregnant and HOW MANY tv programmes at the moment are on about Pregnancy - has it always been like this or is just because im tuned in with it all or am i going slowly mentally insane??????!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stacey in Eastenders, Beck in Corrie, Danni minogue, Denise van outen (Watching Lee Mead on This morning as we speak) AGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

stephwiggy

Its not just you.... but i have to admit i love love love watching those baby programmes !!

I'm taking it as a sign of things to come !!

PeaceLoveBaby

They're everywhere!!!

babydust27

yeah i love it too, i watch them all, extreme pregnancy, portland hospital, baby story etc but it's almost like torturing myself............i need to get out more!

ArticBaby

Yes I watch those pregnancy shows too when I get a chance.

The show " I didnt know I was pregnant" gets to me sometimes, but I do believe it can happen. And sometimes I think every month if I could be one of them or ever will be, I just makes us believe

Bringing Home Baby......is always a tear jerk for me . I always like how I see how much their family helps out when they bring the baby home, and how much family support they have.

Deliver Me.....watching this makes me feel like, I can get more prepared to go into labor. Its intense sometimes, but real

vaniilla

they are everywhere its jut not fair sometimes! there is another baby program on tonight or tomorrow called 'one born every minute' just that alone depresses me it makes it sound to me like oh everyone but you is getting pregnant

gem_wilko

I agree, now were trying, everything seems enlightened.. tv, films, noticing maternity clothes and baby clothes everywhere, and 2 of my friends have got pregnant by "accident" its kinda annoying when were trying...
I also try not to watch programs about SCBU babies etc, as I work with a lot of preemies and babies with congenital heart defects, its hard to see it at home aswell
Gem x

FamilyFaith

Lynette in Desp. housewives. My hubbie keeps telling me it's fiction!

grrlmom

Popular culture certainly is a lot more "mom-and-baby-centric" than it was, for instance, when I was a teenager back in the late 80s/ early 90s.

Society goes back and forth on the issue of reproduction and family planning. Right now, it's sort of like the 1950s all over again.
In the 80s and 90s, pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood were not nearly as glorified, not nearly as trendy, as they are today (or as they were in some previous eras).
Nobody- and I mean nobody, nobody, nobody- planned to have more than one or two children, back in the 1980s. There were no pregnant movie stars or celebrities (or if there were, they did not appear in public, in print, or onscreen until after they'd delivered and lost all their weight; and there was zero public interest in the children of celebrities). Having children before age 30 was frowned upon. Not having children at all was considered an admirable choice. Getting back to work immediately after having children was also considered a responsible and admirable choice.

Today, these things are looked at differently, but the pendulum of popular opinion will swing back again, don't you worry.
It always does, on every issue.

I'm not sure either way is "right" or "wrong"; I wish there was cultural support for all women (and men) regardless of their personal and family planning choices.

It's not really about "support" anyway, it's just about what's hip and stylish.
Right now, baby bumps are considered a fashionable accessory.
Twenty years ago, they weren't.
Ten years from now, they probably won't be, again.

I recognize that the current "preggo-centricism" of our society must make ttc even more stressful for some women.
It's a shame.

ronshi

After ArticBaby mentioned the shows "I didn't know I was pregnant", I remembered an embarrassing story!

Last year I read a story about a woman who gave birth in her office who didn't realise she was pregnant.

Months later, I was on a visit to a company to give a training course and during a coffee break I got chatting with some of the employees. I don't know how it came up in conversation, but I mentioned the "silly woman" who gave birth in her office, along with "how stupid do you have to be not to know....". Everyone went silent and then someone said.."Actually, she works here". I thought the ground would swallow me up.

In the end they explained that she had another young baby, and she got pregnant when the 1st one was only a few weeks old, so she thought she just couldn't shift her baby weight. Since she was breastfeeding the 1st, she couldn't have noticed any breast changes or missed her AF! Amazing isn't it?

PS: I have noticed more pregnant women in TV comercials- for some reason it really annoys me!! How about you girls? xx