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post #1 of 35
4/5/08 at 8:56pm
Thread Starter 
Hey everyone;

I'm a journalist (as well as a homebirth... advocate? enthusiast?) and I'm trying to collect examples of planned homebirths in the mainstream media for an article I'm writing.

I remember Sookie on "Gilmore Girls" had at least one, as well as one of the characters on "The L Word" -- can you think of any others? I know there must be more than that.

Thanks for the help --

Kristen
post #2 of 35
4/5/08 at 9:08pm
I don't know if this is what you're looking for but there's the documentary by Ricki Lake - The Business of Being Born.
post #3 of 35
4/5/08 at 9:24pm
There was a definite homebirth on one of discovery channel's (or maybe national geographic?) shows on the human life cycle, but it wasn't mentioned as such. Took me by surprise, though
post #4 of 35
4/5/08 at 9:50pm
I know TLC has homebirths every once and a while on their Baby Stories show... not great depictions of homebirth every time, but sometimes quite nice.
post #5 of 35
4/5/08 at 9:52pm
this is embarressing, but i remember when there was a home birth on 'chasing amy' (i think that's what it is called??? the woman lawyer show and her mom worked for dcfs??)

amy's law clerk had a home birth at amy's house.
post #6 of 35
4/5/08 at 9:55pm
Wasn't there one on Dhrama and Greg or was that portrayed badly?
post #7 of 35
4/5/08 at 9:57pm
I think Shelly on the old Northern Exposure had her baby at home on the show... I think she had one in real life as well
post #8 of 35
4/5/08 at 10:11pm
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Originally Posted by gezellig_girl View Post

I remember Sookie on "Gilmore Girls" had at least one, as well as one of the characters on "The L Word" -- can you think of any others? I know there must be more than that.
I think that in both those cases though they didn't go well. I think I remember hearing that on Gilmore Girls Luke's kooky sister had a homebirth and named her baby Doula
post #9 of 35
4/6/08 at 12:40am
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Originally Posted by robynlyn80 View Post
this is embarressing, but i remember when there was a home birth on 'chasing amy' (i think that's what it is called??? the woman lawyer show and her mom worked for dcfs??)

amy's law clerk had a home birth at amy's house.
Yup, it was Judging Amy. The clerk had a water birth in her boss's living room! LOL.
post #10 of 35
4/6/08 at 1:30am
There was one on Charmed, but I don't think that show is meant to be realistic at all... and besides, they're witches! Who knows, maybe they gave her a magical "witch epidural" lol!
post #11 of 35
4/6/08 at 3:45am
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Originally Posted by robynlyn80 View Post
this is embarressing, but i remember when there was a home birth on 'chasing amy' (i think that's what it is called??? the woman lawyer show and her mom worked for dcfs??)

amy's law clerk had a home birth at amy's house.
Why is it embarrassing? Should I be embarrassed because you beat me to it?
post #12 of 35
4/6/08 at 3:47am
"Are We Done Yet", Nia Long has a homebirth. Twins, no less! With a male midwife (played by John C. McGinley, who's wife IRL is a doula and had a homebirth).
post #13 of 35
4/6/08 at 10:30am
Thread Starter 
These are all great -- keep 'em coming.

Have any of you actually seen 'The Business of Being Born'? I haven't yet, but I was under the impression that's it's about birth in general and not specifically about home birth (although it is featured as an alternative, and, I think, has Ricki Lake talking about it).

Thanks!
post #14 of 35
4/6/08 at 11:47am
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Originally Posted by robynlyn80 View Post
this is embarressing, but i remember when there was a home birth on 'chasing amy' (i think that's what it is called??? the woman lawyer show and her mom worked for dcfs??)

amy's law clerk had a home birth at amy's house.
That was the first one I thought of as well
I think it was called Judge Amy but not positive. Chasing Amy is a movie with the Clerks guys and Ben Aflick.

ETA: It was called Judging Amy
post #15 of 35
4/6/08 at 11:53am
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Originally Posted by gezellig_girl View Post
These are all great -- keep 'em coming.

Have any of you actually seen 'The Business of Being Born'? I haven't yet, but I was under the impression that's it's about birth in general and not specifically about home birth (although it is featured as an alternative, and, I think, has Ricki Lake talking about it).

Thanks!
I saw it. HB is the main method of birthing that is featured in the film.
post #16 of 35
4/6/08 at 12:02pm
Does it need to be real people? The comic strip "For Better for Worse" had an unplanned homebirth, and "Stone Soup" had a planned homebirth.
post #17 of 35
4/6/08 at 3:22pm
In Gilmore Girls, Sookie's first birth was a HB. It didn't go into any details about the birth. Sookie and her husband, Jackson, were really excited about it but Lorelai was all "That's what a hospital is FOR!" However, I think the portrayal of the midwife was very poor--she was very police-like about it all, "What are YOU doing to help the baby?" and "She is not pro-hb, I can tell."

Sookie's second birth was a hospital birth.

I haven't seen season 7 yet, so I can't comment on Liz's birth.

Can you tell DH and I are in the midst of a Gilmore Girls marathon? LOL.

In the newer "Little Women" though, Meg has her twins at home. I don't know if that's relevant though, since homebirths were the absolute norm during the Civil War era, LOL.
post #18 of 35
4/6/08 at 5:56pm
Do you mean like celebs birthing at home?

Dr. Cox from Scrubs - his wife is a doula and had a home birth (planned) a few months back. Tia Carerra is one. Cindy Crawford had hers at home. Noah Wiley and his wife had a natural childbirth using HypnoBirthing but I don't know for sure that they were at home... Somewhere there is a thread on this...
post #19 of 35
4/6/08 at 7:11pm
did Scully have a homebirth accidentally on X-files?

and Malcolm in the Middle?
post #20 of 35
4/6/08 at 8:25pm
Bree's daughter on desperate housewives, she had an unplanned homebirth with a doctor.
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