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== Film ==
* [[Aversion]]: ''[[Children of Men]]'' used a CGI baby in the birth scene.
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* Spike Lee's ''[[She Hate Me]]'' averted this in a rather traumatizing fashion. Not one, but two births were actually filmed and used in the movie. Pretty squicky stuff, especially since you expect the standard "mother screaming/cut to clean, swaddled child." Nope. You get two real kids popping out of real mothers right before your very eyes.
* Likewise, the crew of ''[[Caligula]]'' kept a number of expectant mothers on set in order to capture a real birth for Caligula's child. When one of the women went into labor, she was immediately rushed onto the set and filmed.
* In the TV movie ''Million Dollar Babies,'' about the Dionne quintuplets, the producers used
* ''[[Junior]]'' has [[It Makes Sense in Context|Arnold Schwarzenegger give birth]] and like [[George Lopez]] they CGI his adult face onto a CGI baby... It's [[Nightmare Fuel]] for everyone, including Arnold, which is fair, as it is a nightmare in the film.
* The French film ''Romance'' has what appears to be an actual birth. Close-up of vagina and everything.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* Parodied on ''[[George Lopez]]''. Anytime a flashback occurs where George is an infant, it's an infant's body with George's head computer generated on.
* Similarly parodied in the ''[[Chappelle's Show]]'' parody of ''Antwone Fishe''r, where close-up shots of newborn Dave show his adult head. (Wider shots show an obviously fake baby - with an enormous penis.)
* Hera on ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Averted on [[Star Trek: The Next Generation]] episode "Disaster" when Keiko O'Brien gives birth to Molly with a cut-away shot that looks realistic.
* According to the [[All There in the Manual|companion book]], a half-Bajoran, half-Cardassian newborn was needed for an episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', so they got the guys who built [[Child's Play (film)|Chucky]] to do it. Sadly (and hilariously), the baby really ''looked'' like a [[Nightmare Fuel|Cardassian/Bajoran Chucky]], so in the end they used a normal doll wrapped in a blanket and had one cutaway scene, using a four-month-old with a small rubber prosthetic forehead applied with K-Y Jelly.
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* Little baby Jake in the ''[[Sesame Street]]'' spin off, ''Sesame English'' (which teaches English to foreigners, starting with Taiwanese and Chinese), is portrayed by [[Roger Bart]] (who was 37 at the time of first airing) of all people.
* Quite neatly averted in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "A Good Man Goes To War". Although it's the first time we see the baby, the previous episode ended just before the birth, and the opening scene [[Your Mileage May Vary|appears at first to be just-post-birth]], a throwaway line of dialogue near the beginning of the episode establishes that it's been a month since the baby was actually born, accounting for this trope.
== Literature ==
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* Inverted in the ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'', Bothari tries to pass the newborn Ivan Vorpatril as being a few months old, but the person he's trying to fool quickly figures out that the boy's stated age would be correct if he changed 'weeks' to 'hours'.
== Periodicals ==
* ''[[The Onion]]'' satirized this with one of its headlines: "Woman on TV gives birth to four month old baby".
▲== Stand-Up Comedy ==
* On one of his comedy albums, [[Bill Cosby]] describes how unprepared he was for his newborn's appearance:
{{quote|"...As they started to clean it off... I went over to my wife, kissed her gently on the lips, and said, 'Darling, I love you very much. You just gave birth to a lizard.'"}}
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