Depiction of childbirth that doesn’t go from first contraction to delivery in less than an hour.
All in the Family – When Gloria has Joey, it’s the first realistic birth on US TV. She is in labor for hour after boring hour, and the delivery itself takes a long time.
House of the Dragon - Rhaenyra steadfastly refuses the Septas’, midwives’, and Maesters’ help while she delivers a stillbon. Less than 20 minutes as depicted, probably an afternoon and evening in “real” (as it were) time.
Call the Midwife - The production team strives for realism in the births and use a combination of real babies, gel dolls, and CGI in the depictions.
The Big Bang Theory - Early in the episode "The Birthday Synchronicity*, Bernadette goes into labor with her and Howard’s first child. Over the course of the episode, she goes to the hospital, is sent home because her contractions are too far apart, eventually returns to the hospital, and goes through various scenes (walking around, chewing ice, etc.) before finally giving birth to Halley near the end of the episode.
Superstore - In the 4th season episode “Delivery Day,” Amy and Dina check into the hospital at the same time (Dina to induce labor, Amy having gone into labor prematurely). They take •very* different paths to delivery, but both babies take pretty much the whole day to make their appearances.
[quote=“Wheelz, post:1061, topic:1026759, full:true”] Depiction of childbirth that doesn’t go from first contraction to delivery in less than an hour.
All in the Family – When Gloria has Joey, it’s the first realistic birth on US TV. She is in labor for hour after boring hour, and the delivery itself takes a long time.
House of the Dragon - Rhaenyra steadfastly refuses the Septas’, midwives’, and Maesters’ help while she delivers a stillbon. Less than 20 minutes as depicted, probably an afternoon and evening in “real” (as it were) time.
Call the Midwife - The production team strives for realism in the births and use a combination of real babies, gel dolls, and CGI in the depictions.
The Big Bang Theory - Early in the episode "The Birthday Synchronicity*, Bernadette goes into labor with her and Howard’s first child. Over the course of the episode, she goes to the hospital, is sent home because her contractions are too far apart, eventually returns to the hospital, and goes through various scenes (walking around, chewing ice, etc.) before finally giving birth to Halley near the end of the episode.
Superstore - In the 4th season episode “Delivery Day,” Amy and Dina check into the hospital at the same time (Dina to induce labor, Amy having gone into labor prematurely). They take •very* different paths to delivery, but both babies take pretty much the whole day to make their appearances.
Young Sheldon - Many has a baby, that takes long enough that Sheldon misses the launch of his database search engine.
IIRC, this takes place in the 1990s, when it could still takes several minutes just to get a video buffered, and that was IF you had the newfangled broadband.
Depiction of childbirth that doesn’t go from first contraction to delivery in less than an hour.
All in the Family – When Gloria has Joey, it’s the first realistic birth on US TV. She is in labor for hour after boring hour, and the delivery itself takes a long time.
House of the Dragon - Rhaenyra steadfastly refuses the Septas’, midwives’, and Maesters’ help while she delivers a stillbon. Less than 20 minutes as depicted, probably an afternoon and evening in “real” (as it were) time.
Call the Midwife - The production team strives for realism in the births and use a combination of real babies, gel dolls, and CGI in the depictions.
The Big Bang Theory - Early in the episode "The Birthday Synchronicity*, Bernadette goes into labor with her and Howard’s first child. Over the course of the episode, she goes to the hospital, is sent home because her contractions are too far apart, eventually returns to the hospital, and goes through various scenes (walking around, chewing ice, etc.) before finally giving birth to Halley near the end of the episode.
Superstore - In the 4th season episode “Delivery Day,” Amy and Dina check into the hospital at the same time (Dina to induce labor, Amy having gone into labor prematurely). They take •very* different paths to delivery, but both babies take pretty much the whole day to make their appearances.
Young Sheldon - Many has a baby, that takes long enough that Sheldon misses the launch of his database search engine.
Friends - Rachel is in labor for hour after agonizing hour, and despairs as women come and go (with newborns in hand). One of those women was Chandler’s ex, Janice.
Depiction of childbirth that doesn’t go from first contraction to delivery in less than an hour.
All in the Family – When Gloria has Joey, it’s the first realistic birth on US TV. She is in labor for hour after boring hour, and the delivery itself takes a long time.
House of the Dragon - Rhaenyra steadfastly refuses the Septas’, midwives’, and Maesters’ help while she delivers a stillbon. Less than 20 minutes as depicted, probably an afternoon and evening in “real” (as it were) time.
Call the Midwife - The production team strives for realism in the births and use a combination of real babies, gel dolls, and CGI in the depictions.
The Big Bang Theory - Early in the episode "The Birthday Synchronicity*, Bernadette goes into labor with her and Howard’s first child. Over the course of the episode, she goes to the hospital, is sent home because her contractions are too far apart, eventually returns to the hospital, and goes through various scenes (walking around, chewing ice, etc.) before finally giving birth to Halley near the end of the episode.
Superstore - In the 4th season episode “Delivery Day,” Amy and Dina check into the hospital at the same time (Dina to induce labor, Amy having gone into labor prematurely). They take •very* different paths to delivery, but both babies take pretty much the whole day to make their appearances.
Young Sheldon - Many has a baby, that takes long enough that Sheldon misses the launch of his database search engine.
Friends - Rachel is in labor for hour after agonizing hour, and despairs as women come and go (with newborns in hand). One of those women was Chandler’s ex, Janice.
Angel - Season 3 episodes “Offspring”, “Quickening”, “Lullaby” and “Dad” deal with the return of Angel’s ex Darla, revealing herself to be pregnant with his child. There are complications, of course, and others want to get their hands on the baby as well.
All in the Family – When Gloria has Joey, it’s the first realistic birth on US TV. She is in labor for hour after boring hour, and the delivery itself takes a long time.
House of the Dragon - Rhaenyra steadfastly refuses the Septas’, midwives’, and Maesters’ help while she delivers a stillbon. Less than 20 minutes as depicted, probably an afternoon and evening in “real” (as it were) time.
Call the Midwife - The production team strives for realism in the births and use a combination of real babies, gel dolls, and CGI in the depictions.
The Big Bang Theory - Early in the episode "The Birthday Synchronicity*, Bernadette goes into labor with her and Howard’s first child. Over the course of the episode, she goes to the hospital, is sent home because her contractions are too far apart, eventually returns to the hospital, and goes through various scenes (walking around, chewing ice, etc.) before finally giving birth to Halley near the end of the episode.
Superstore - In the 4th season episode “Delivery Day,” Amy and Dina check into the hospital at the same time (Dina to induce labor, Amy having gone into labor prematurely). They take •very* different paths to delivery, but both babies take pretty much the whole day to make their appearances.
Young Sheldon - Many has a baby, that takes long enough that Sheldon misses the launch of his database search engine.
Friends - Rachel is in labor for hour after agonizing hour, and despairs as women come and go (with newborns in hand). One of those women was Chandler’s ex, Janice.
Angel - Season 3 episodes “Offspring”, “Quickening”, “Lullaby” and “Dad” deal with the return of Angel’s ex Darla, revealing herself to be pregnant with his child. There are complications, of course, and others want to get their hands on the baby as well.
Upstairs, Downstairs – former underhouse-parlourmaid Sarah arrives at the Bellamy’s home at 165 Eaton Place after a very long walk (miles) while in labor-- water broken and ready to push, which still goes on hours. The father is the Bellamy’s son, and the evening on the birth, Edward VII is the guest of honor at dinner.
My Three Sons – Believe it or not, this show gets lots wrong, but the timing is right. After the first contraction, the mother still manages to bed and sleep several hours. Meanwhile, the army is searching for her husband who is on FTX with his reserve unit, some place remote, in the days before cell phones. After she arrives at the hospital, there is still a wait of hours, and hours, so the father does actually manage to get there before the baby --actually, babies.
OK-- wrapped up my category that took longer than I thought. Now,
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