Motherhood and Media

This afternoon, I watched a bit of television while under the weight of a sleeping baby. I had tried twice to put him down in his crib, but each such attempt ended in waking, increasing fussing, and then full on crying. Today, the place he clearly most wanted to nap was snuggled on my body — and no substitutes were cutting it. Perhaps that's why the shows I watched during that time resonated so much: the first episode of HBO's The Baby and the first episodes of Netflix's imported Japanese reality show import Old Enough .

In the month or so before my due date, my family and I watched a whole slew of mediocre comedies about pregnancy, some of which I still plan on writing about in the next few months. And one of the last movies of this set that I watched was the 2012 comedy What to Expect When You're Expecting.