After having a baby, this movie frustrates me
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Jack2979 — 11 years ago(May 03, 2014 02:34 AM)
I know it's just a movie, but it's still hard to overlook the inaccuracies after you experience the same things. I never claimed to know everything, but I have had a baby and know how it works. Have you??? I'm guessing not.
I have 3 kids and I say who cares it is just a movie.
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blaque108 — 15 years ago(October 14, 2010 06:17 AM)
All together I always wanted to know how they do baby scenes. I mean do they use real life babies on set or dolls. On some TV shows I can tell if its fake by how they are holding the babies like when Molly was trying to catch a taxi and she hall all that stuff in her hands that was obviously a doll. Yeah when Mikey was growing up and all those babies and toddlers looked real.
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PopTartsKill — 15 years ago(January 26, 2011 10:29 AM)
As a nerd who paid too much attention in her science classes, I have to have a laugh at how inaccurate the conception scene is. Then I remember it is just a movie and it's main purpose is to entertain. Not so much educate. A 3 month old baby is more entertaining then a newborn. A full bottle of milk standing conspicuously on the table later to be revealed as breast milkmore interesting than those tiny lil avent bottles. Not too mention the on set hand who filled the bottle up was more than likely male who didn't know anyway. Plus that scene probably took many takes. I'm sure they just filled the bottle up and left it there for John to grab and a squirt a bit in about 20 times in a row LOL. Fill it all the way up to save time.
I've had experience with babies I know it's not accurate. I also know movies though. This is still a cute movie to me. -
JQScout — 14 years ago(August 10, 2011 04:04 PM)
As a matter of fact, it is possible, and normal for a mother to be able to express several ounces of breastmilk at one sitting. Some mothers are unable to pump, but many can. With the uprising of the mother-to-mother milk-sharing networks, such as Eats on Feets, and Human Milk 4 Human Babies, pumping and storing milk is widespread.
I personally was able to express 6-7 ounces at one sitting. Several milk donors that I know of have hundreds and hundreds of ounces in their freezer. One of our donors had a baby three weeks ago, and already has 70 ounces stored up.
NOT impossible at all.
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spewey07 — 14 years ago(August 24, 2011 06:21 PM)
Yeah, alot of the baby stuff was unrealistic, but unfortunately it was kinda necessary or else the film wouldn't have worked as well.
As for the breast milk scene, do we know that it was actually breast milk, or was Mollie just trying to get a rise out of James?
After all, we never do see her breastfeed in the movie (although this doesn't necessarily mean anything).
They used four different baby boys, at different ages, to play little Mikey. My personal favourite was toddler Mikey. What a hoot. -
randydidit — 13 years ago(August 05, 2012 02:13 PM)
yeah gotta say, the milk you produce is based on you and differs for every woman. maybe you have itty bitty boobies but that doesnt go for all women.
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MrsJove — 11 years ago(August 18, 2014 02:28 AM)
Lol. I grew up around all of my cousins kids and noticed this long ago. Now having my own baby, who is now almost 1 1/2, its pretty weird. But just a movie. Their movie kid is always in a good mood. Mine, he's cool, except when he's cutting a tooth, I think its called. And as far as the milk, I had to go back to the hospital after I had my baby, due to losing too much blood, and all my levels in my body were super low, and the nurse told me I could go ahead and pump, this was 3 days after I ha him, and I pumped 4oz from one breast and 3 1/2 from the other, almost 8oz. The 1st day i had him i was producing colostrum (not sure of the spelling) game him that, he latched on like a leach, but I think its different for people. Props to those of you who breastfeed. They had this nurse come run tests on me to see if my heart and everything was good and it was so embarrassing because my boob milk was leaking on his hands!
I think he liked it though! LOL! Kidding!
Also you're right about if he would've been sleeping and waking up every 3 hours for a feeding as a newborn it woulda been boring.
All though my kid at almost 3 to 7 mos. Would love The Mickey Mouse hot dog song, he would move his arms and legs really fast and get pissed when it was over, so replay over and over a good 15 minutes until he fell asleep or got distracted! shudders ugh! He also did that with the Bonanza opening! He's a toddler monster now, loves music and all still.
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deem_bastille — 9 years ago(May 28, 2016 11:02 AM)
I don't know why they didn't fast forward 'life' to make the movie more in tune with mikey. the baby playing mikey was about 5 months old when james shows up with the purse.
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