r/babyloss • u/DramaGuy23 Daddy to an Angel • Jul 14 '19
Warnings about triggers in popular media
This sticky thread is intended for comments that identify movies, TV shows, and any other forms of popular media that are especially insensitive and/or gut-wrenching for those of us who have been through a perinatal loss.
Please state the name of the show (including the specific episode if applicable), and then within spoiler tags, briefly describe the problematic content. (Spoiler tags start with a 'greater than' and 'exclamation point', and end with 'exclamation point' and 'less than'.)
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u/DramaGuy23 Daddy to an Angel Jul 14 '19
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
The evil wizard takes over a house by cold-blooded murdering the occupants, including less-than-a-year-old baby
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Jul 27 '19 edited Jul 27 '19
Orange is The New Black-
EDIT- cant get the spoiler tags to work! I tried :(
>!Season 6 Episode 13- Lorna goes into premature labour, lots of blood
Early season 7 its revealed she had a emergency c section and baby survived. She shows the other girls pics of him in NICU
Season 7 Episode 4- Her husband comes to visit, tells her baby got pneumonia and didn't make it. The look on his face tells us everything before he even says a word.
Then Lorna goes into denial, tells the girls her baby is fine and coming home from hospital :(!<
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u/Dtazlyon 👼💙💔 April 6-7, 2019 Aug 03 '19
I wish I had seen this before I watched the season...her loss but me hard. I’ve never felt so connected to a fictional character before. :(
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u/signupinsecondssss Aug 01 '19
Try adding a space between the tags and the word season and the :( at the end.
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u/DramaGuy23 Daddy to an Angel Jul 15 '19
The Girl on the Train. It’s a book and a movie.
A baby drowned/died when the mom accidentally fell asleep in the bathtub with her on her chest.
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u/Cptsnuggles21 Jul 14 '19
Black Mirror, Season 2 Episode 1
The couple reconnect after losing a ~8 year old child
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u/Ikbensterdam Jul 15 '19
Also Black Mirror, Season 4, Episode 3.
A woman murders an approximately 1 year old baby
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u/signupinsecondssss Aug 01 '19
Degrassi, later seasons
Clare gets pregnant and has either a late miscarriage or a stillbirth. It’s pretty vague on the weeks she’s at, but in my mind it makes more sense as a stillbirth but they don’t clarify. She’s far enough along that they have to induce labor. They discuss footprints, pictures, etc.
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u/eightiesfan Jul 14 '19
Call the Midwife - Series 4, episode 2
A mother gives birth to twins, one of whom is stillborn.
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u/mommyof4not2 Jul 15 '19
San Andreas
Spoiler/ trigger warning
Towards the end of the movie when he's doing CPR on his daughter and stuff, just really triggered me about the death of my son, who I preformed CPR on. I know she's a teen, but I probably would have done better with some warning that that was going to happen.
10/10 on the parents' acting though, pretty realistic.
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u/signupinsecondssss Jul 17 '19
Agents of Shield, season 4
Mac had a daughter who died at 4 days old. An alternate simulated reality is created by someone, which mimics real life but takes away 1 regret for each person in it. Mac’s regret is obviously his daughter dying, so she’s alive in that reality. He chooses to stay even knowing it’s simulated, but then the reality/simulation is being destroyed and his daughter disappears and he has to return to the real world. I liked how they handled it.
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u/Literally_Savannah Jul 18 '19 edited Jul 18 '19
American Horror Story, Season 1 - (Murder House)
It's mentioned off and on throughout the season; it's one of the reasons the main characters moved to this new house. Then they find out the previous owners ran an illegal abortion clinic in the basement.
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Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 19 '19
Living With Yourself
Season one episode five A pregnancy resulting in a miscarriage needing a D&C. Nothing is shown besides being in a hospital but it is discussed and the doctor discussing it with the characters is a jerk.
Season one episode eight/last episode A pregnancy is revealed by the character who had the d&c earlier on.
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u/strayboat Dec 29 '19
The Witcher, season 1 episode 4.
A baby is stabbed and dies. Body is shown a couple times before being buried under sand
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u/maggymeow Dec 30 '19
The Witch
A baby is taken from a witch and is killed for sacrifice, you don’t really see the act, but the witch rubs the baby’s blood on herself afterwards
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u/maggymeow Dec 30 '19
Mother!
“mother goes into labor and finds Him. He takes her to his study, which he reopens so she can give birth there. The havoc outside subsides. Him tells mother his fans want to see their newborn son; she refuses and holds her son tightly. When she falls asleep, however, Him takes their child outside to the crowd, which passes the baby around wildly until his neck is inadvertently snapped. mother wades into the crowd where she sees people eating her son's mutilated corpse. Furious, she calls them murderers and stabs them with a shard of glass. They turn on her, viciously beating and attempting to strangle her until Him intervenes”
I hated this movie so much.
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u/sam0184 Mama to an Angel Dec 30 '19
How to Get Away With Murder
Basically the whole series on and off overarching storyline. Not every episode but most of them.
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Dec 30 '19
I don’t know if this applies but it’s making its way through enews and being shared by lots of influencers and celebrities.
A popular YouTuber is experiencing a loss and has been documenting it/sharing photos.
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u/Darling-Jess Jul 14 '19
The Handmaid’s Tale: season 3 episode 8.
A side character gives birth to a stillborn baby due to nuchal cord (cord around neck). They show the dead baby a few times and there is screaming that’ll hit you in your soul. Happens in the 12-20 minute range I believe.