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While I was pregnant and now that I have a baby, it's been really hard for me to watch (or read) any bad news about babiesâin fact, I just don't tune in. For example I know that there's a girl named Caylee Anthony and that something bad happened to her, but I don't know what it was and I don't want to know. I just can't bear it.
It's even hard for me to read books or watch movies that are fiction, like Gone Baby Gone, which is about a little girl that goes missing. But for some reason, I forced myself to watch that one. I won't spoil it for you, but the reason you think your heart is going to break at the beginning of the movie is not at all the reason your heart breaks at the end.
I don't know if I could have made it through tearjerkers like Terms of Endearment or Stepmom if I had had kids when I watched them. So I could totally relate to lilsugar's post Do Movies Affect You Differently Now That You're a Mom? She had a really hard time watching the Changeling, the film for which Angelina Jolie was nominated for a best actress Oscar. I had a mini anxiety attack just hearing what the movie was about.
How about you? Do you have a hard time watching or reading the news now that you're a mom? What about watching movies? If you have watched anything particularly upsetting, please tell me what to avoid.
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i would say a little bit, but not too much. i still love scary movies. but there is a scene in a somewhat recent movie [i cant remember the name, it has Denzel Washington and he is a drug lord] where there is a baby crying in a dirty apartment while he lays next to his mom who is dead from an overdose [that what it looks like anyways if i remember correctly]. that was a really hard scene for me to watch, not just b/c of the baby crying but the explicit dryg use shown in the movie.
I would say absolutely... On movies that i have watched before I had my daughter i never cried, now that I have a little girl.. I bawl my eyes out! lol
The day that I was induced, we ended up watching a csi where an infant was killed by her parents. I lost it. I don' t handle any movies with kids in it very well anymore.
It depends on what's going on in the movie....but if it has anything to do with a baby being really neglected or dying....it literally hurts my heart. I don't want to think about that stuff...even though it's always possible for it to happen to anyone...These days, even commercials are getting to me. lol.
I guess it depends really.. I watched Changeling, and I had a hard time with that one..Knowing it was a true story. However movies that arent based on facts, just some writers imagination, dont bother me like true stories do. Does that make since? I do have a hard time with some made up movies though
I'm there with you. Anything about children dying, getting lost etc I stay away from. I already have my own anxieties to deal with, I don't need any more horrible thoughts and fears in my head!
What really gets me now more than movies are some of the child-related story lines on "Private Practice" lately. They have been heartbreakers!!
Some things that didn't bother me as much before I had kids bother the hell outta me now. The main one that comes to mind is from Cold Mountian, when the soliders take the little baby and lay him outside in the cold to get the mother to cooperate, that really bothered me after I had my son.
Yes! I can't even watch TV shows with babies hurt in them. I love ER and I always watch the reruns everyday and I think last week there was one where Abbys son fell off of the monkey bars and he was screaming .. I lost it. And theres a House episode where a mom has a seizure and her baby goes under water.. AHH I freak out and get all nauseas and upset. It never bothered me before, now its awful. I also hate hearing babies cry when I am at the grocery store.
Totally. While I was pregnant I couldn't watch any horror. The gore made me feel sick. (I've always loved horror) Now I can watch that again, but anything with a baby or child in trouble rips my heart out. I found Look Who's Talking in the $5 bin and grabbed it (fun old movie with Kirstie Alley and John Travolta) and when the little boy was lost and standing in the road, I actually started bawling! Gah!