Motherhood and Media

Okay, this is only tangentially related to the intersection of motherhood and media, but some days you just have to stop everything and do a historical analysis of the social politics in a beloved children's public television show...

 "I wonder if, when a person is pregnant in Star Trek , they use a transporter to beam the baby out of the mother," my husband mused. We'd been watching our way through the 1993 delight that is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .  I laughed, we continued the episode, and then I kept wondering: how does something as futuristic and supposedly utopian as the Star Trek Federation handle birth?

 So... I've always had a bit of a dark sense of humor. When I was in middle school, the day after we learned about what gelatin was made out of, I brought Jello to school and dramatically ate it saying, "Mmmm, cow hooves" while the girl next to me shrieked in horror. In high school, I hummed "Chin Up" from Charlotte's Web while I completed my mandatory fetal pig dissection lab. Perhaps that's why, just weeks after finding out that I was pregnant, I decided to order a copy of Ira Levin's iconic 1967 horror novel Rosemary's Baby .

Welcome to my new blog! My name is Lauren, and I am about to become a first-time mom. I also have a Masters degree in Literature & Cultural Analysis, and I've been noticing a lot that I want to talk about in the world around me as I go on this journey into motherhood. This is a space where I'll be musing about and over-analyzing things I've observed in various forms of media that relate to pregnancy and motherhood! Thanks for coming along on this journey. ~ LS