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* In an episode of ''[[Rugrats]]'', the babies discussed their earliest memories. Tommy's was being born. Of course, Tommy is only a year old and the entire point of the show is babies with more cognitive skills than probable.
** In another episode, Chuckie describes a recurring nightmare which the viewer will realize is his birth.
* Stewie from ''[[Family Guy]]'' also remembers being a [
** Stewie is an odd case, since he not only ''remembers'' being born; he is depicted as having been fully functioning and able to speak, write, and draw a map of Europe prior to his birth. (In one rather disgusting off-hand comment, he tells Brian that he carved "[[The Shawshank Redemption|Brooks was here]]" in the wall of the birth canal.)
* The same thing happens to Beavis in ''[[Beavis and Butthead|Beavis and Butthead Do America]]''. However, it was most likely a hallucination brought on by dehydration.
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== Real Life ==
* This trope is quite far from [[Truth in Television]]: not only do people not really remember their infancy, most people don't remember their childhood as well as they think they do and can be easily tricked into remember stuff that never happened (as demonstrated by, among others, [
* Dawn Prince-Hughes Ph. D's biography "Songs of the Gorilla Nation" describes a memory of her own birth, recalling a nurse with horn-rimmed glasses.
* [[Ray Bradbury]] [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/books/chapters/0724-1st-weller.html claimed] he can remember being born.
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