“Boil water, fetch clean towels!”: 10 of the most unrealistic on-screen births
If you relied on TV dramas to educate you about birth, you might never realise that a) not every woman’s labour begins with waters breaking, b) placentas exist, and c) babies do not come out the size of a chubby four-month-old tot!
Here’s some of the most unrealistic births we’ve had the pleasure of chomping popcorn to. Expect women lying on their backs and a sudden urge to boil water and rummage for clean towels.
3. Brooke's birth in The Bold And The Beautiful
When Ridge helped deliver baby RJ, Brooke might have thought she was in a different kind of show. Let’s just say that her birth sounds were a little … um … porn-y? Ridge then appeared to origami the baby out of Brooke’s vagina, rummaging for what seemed like two full minutes as Brooke looked on expectantly and waited to hold her freshly-folded tot.