History Main / CleanPrettyChildbirth

A variation is when creatures hatch from eggs looking mostly dry and clean. Modern day reptiles and birds hatch very wet and with some egg residue on them.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and Disney's ''Disney/{{Dinosaur}}'' both have the baby dinosaurs hatching totally clean. Nobody knows for sure about dinosaurs, but modern reptiles and birds are usually wet and have some residue from being inside the egg, until they're able to dry off.

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* Averted in ''Film/AQuietPlace'', as the act is shown to be as bloody and messy as would be realistically expected. It's also justified, as the wife can't travel to a hospital, and there are no medical personnel to help out. In fact, the childbirth is so messy, [[spoiler: Lee assumes his wife was killed by one of the monsters when he reaches the bathtub in which Evelyn gave birth]].

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* Lampshaded in ''Series/{{Community}}'' S2, E22: Shirley gives birth in the middle of class. While the trope appears to be averted via Britta's vomiting at the sight of the birth, in the end it's played straight as the birth turns out looking clean and tidy.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Martin}}'' lampshaded this while LeaningOnTheFourthWall. A woman gave birth to what was obviously a baby doll that Martin caught in a catcher's mitt. When Coal asked about the umbilical cord, Martin said "TV babies don't have umbilical cords!".

* Played straight in the TV-movie adaptation of ''Literature/TheMistsOfAvalon'', in which we learn that the time between "baby's first cry as it emerges" and "baby clean and pink and swaddled in a blanket, cradled in the arms of smiling fully-dressed mother, ready to receive visitors" is approximately 2.2 seconds. This in the sixth century C.E.

* Actively averted in ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', as the show is about midwives doing their jobs for the working class of London's East End in the mid 1900s. Most births in the show actively show babies covered in vaginal fluid and sometimes blood, umbilical cords in almost every birth in the show, and the mothers showing pain and sweating with the hard work of giving birth WITHOUT ANY PAINKILLERS! The second episode shows a baby needing to be born vaginally in the breech position (rear end coming first rather than the typical head first.) Since the birth was at home and C-Section was unavailable, the camera shows the baby's body hanging as the head is still within the mother's vaginal canal, albeit with her thigh covering her private area. Even nurse Chummy is a bit shocked as afterwards she needs Sister Evangelina to steady her hand in cutting the cord.

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* The High Priestess of Aku from ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' Season 5 manages to deliver septuplets in a cave with no medical aid or assistance, and still has enough energy left over to give a sermon to her fellow cultists. Most real mothers would have died from such an experience, but for the High Priestess it is just one more step in her plan to kill Jack.
* An old Christmas cartoon has Mary and Joseph settling into the stable after being turned away from the inn. Joseph wanders toward a window and remarks what an unusual star has just appeared in the sky. "Come look at it, Mary.... Mary?" He turns to see why she didn't answer right away. Offscreen, Mary joyfully announces, "The baby!" Yep, that's all there was to the entire labor and delivery.

* Lampshading in ''Manga/BitterVirgin'': Daisuke's older sister gives birth over the course of several hours, and while they don't show anything, she scolds him for assuming that just getting her to the hospital was enough, forces him to give her a back rub, etc.

* Played straight in ''Series/{{Glee}}'', where Quinn gets a ScreamingBirth scene set to "Bohemian Rhapsody."

* Grotesquely {{averted|trope}} in the ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' DLC "The Old Hunters": The FinalBoss, the Orphan of Kos, is in a cutscene prior to the fight shown to be born out of its EldritchAbomination mother's corpse. The sounds of this birth are nauseating, the Orphan seems to drag out most of its mother's spiny innards with it as it pulls itself out from her, and is there a placenta? You bet there is. It's [[EyesDoNotBelongThere covered with eyes]] and happens to be [[ImprobableWeaponUser the Orphan's weapon of choice.]]

* In ''OnceUponATime'', Snow White gives birth this way, including getting up and running down the hall about five minutes later--all while wearing a white dress that remains unsullied.

* Actively averted in ''Series/{{Call the Midwife}}'', as the show is about midwives doing their jobs for the working class of London's East End in the mid 1900s. Most births in the show actively show babies covered in vaginal fluid and sometimes blood, umbilical cords in almost every birth in the show, and the mothers showing pain and sweating with the hard work of giving birth WITHOUT ANY PAINKILLERS! The second episode shows a baby needing to be born vaginally in the breech position (rear end coming first rather than the typical head first.) Since the birth was at home and C-Section was unavailable, the camera shows the baby's body hanging as the head is still within the mother's vaginal canal, albeit with her thigh covering her private area. Even nurse Chummy is a bit shocked as afterwards she needs Sister Evangelina to steady her hand in cutting the cord.

* Grotesquely {{averted|trope}} in the ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' DLC "The Old Hunters": The FinalBoss, the Orphan of Kos, is in a cutscene prior to the fight shown to be born out of its EldritchAbomination mother's corpse. The sounds of this birth are nauseating, the Orphan seems to drag out most of its mother's spiny innards with it as it pulls itself out from her, and is there a plecenta? You bet there is. It's [[EyesDoNotBelongThere covered with eyes]] and happens to be [[ImprobableWeaponUser the Orphan's weapon of choice.]]

* Lampshaded in ''Series/{{Community}}'' S2, E22: Shirely gives birth in the middle of class. While the trope appears to be averted via Britta's vomiting at the sight of the birth, in the end it's played straight as the birth turns out looking clean and tidy.

Related to InstantBirthJustAddWater. When a live baby is shown, it is never an actual newborn, and is often a ThreeMonthOldNewborn, due to legal reasons. Compare OutGivingBirthBackInTwoMinutes, for births taking place in less time than they should. Compare NobodyPoops.

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* ''Defied'' with Jessica Drew in the ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'' comic. After checking into a galactic hospital's maternity ward (ironically, she did this to ''avoid'' heroic actions for her baby's sake) a gang of Skrulls broke into the place; her water broke about halfway through it, she had to be given a C-section ''while the bad guys were trying to break into the operating room'', specifically told the doctors not to use any anesthesia (she actually ''intended'' to fight them once they breached the door) and was still able to beat them up after giving birth - covered with blood and other residue, while wearing a torn hospital gown. Not exactly clean at all. (Btw, the baby is okay, and it's a boy.)


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* The birth has yet to happen, but this is averted in ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2543735/chapters/5655182 The Lovers Left Broken]]'', where it is made clear pregnancy is an ugly process. Sara nearly passes out when she watches a birthing video, though she seems to have an actual phobia of pregnancy so maybe she reacted more strongly than most.
** Also averted with Sara herself, when her father mentions she was born with Lanugo.

* ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' averts this from the very start; not only does it show how long, agonizing and messy birth can be, but when possible they try to get actually new born babies to show on camera.
* ''Series/LifeInPieces'' averts this as well. A large part of Greg and Jen's plot in the pilot dwells on the physical toll childbirth has on a woman's body. As Jen's doctor says, her "tunnel is under construction".
-->'''Greg''': It's that bad, huh?\\
'''Jen''': Do you remember, uh, when the Film/{{Predator}} took off his mask?

* Viciously [[AvertedTrope averted]] in The Old Hunters DLC for ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''. The final boss, [[spoiler: The Orphan of Kos]] is shown crawling out from its mothers near dead corpse covered in malformed placenta and with various squishing sounds, before it breaks down sobbing and initiates the fight with you.

* In ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', when Luke and Leia are born, their heads appear slightly moist but are otherwise clean and dry. Might be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to advanced medical technology in the Star Wars 'verse.

* Justified in ''DragonBallSuper'' when Bulma gives birth. Since Vegeta refuses to leave her side until the baby is born, when the group needs him Whis uses magic to literally teleport the baby out of Bulma's body and leaves behind all of the gunk newborn babies usually are covered in.

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* Played straight in ''Film/KnockedUp''; while it does show a crowning vagina twice, no blood or other liquids or solids are shown.
* Inverted in ''Film/{{Prometheus}}''. [[spoiler:Not only is Shaw's cesarean section far more gruesome than most real childbirths, but [[BodyHorror it's not even a human child]] being birthed in the scene, but an alien parasite that she removes via TraumaticCSection before it can burst out of her.]]
* In ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', when Luke and Leia are born, their heads appear slightly moist but are otherwise clean and dry. Might be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to advanced medical technology in the Star Wars 'verse.

* In ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'', the baby roc hatches out completely dry and fluffy.

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* ''Defied'' with Jessica Drew in the ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'' comic. After checking into a galactic hospital's maternity ward (ironically, she did this to ''avoid'' heroic actions for her baby's sake) a gang of Skrulls broke into the place; her water broke about halfway through it, she had to be given a C-section ''while the bad guys were trying to break into the operating room'', specifically told the doctors not to use any anesthesia (she actually ''intended'' to fight them once they breached the door) and was still able to beat them up after giving birth - covered with blood and other residue, while wearing a torn hospital gown. Not exactly clean at all. (Btw, the baby is okay, and it's a boy.)


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* Played straight in ''Film/KnockedUp''; while it does show a crowning vagina twice, no blood or other liquids or solids are shown.
* Inverted in ''Film/{{Prometheus}}''. [[spoiler:Not only is Shaw's cesarean section far more gruesome than most real childbirths, but [[BodyHorror it's not even a human child]] being birthed in the scene, but an alien parasite that she removes via TraumaticCSection before it can burst out of her.]]
* In ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', when Luke and Leia are born, their heads appear slightly moist but are otherwise clean and dry. Might be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to advanced medical technology in the Star Wars 'verse.
* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'', the baby mammoth Peaches is born, then shown dry and fluffy approximately 5 minutes after birth.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron'' we see Esperanza having contractions, followed by baby Spirit coming into view clean and neat, though he appears to be wet at first.

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* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' with the use of the Uterine Replicator, which makes childbirth about as clean and straightforward as it's possible to be, although--as mentioned at one point--it does raise the rather embarrassing danger of a ''mother'' being late to her own child's birth.

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* Lampshaded in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sbLHbxq3i0 here]], in which a doctor gives a fairly realistic description of what to expect during a birth.
* Lampshaded in ''Series/{{Community}}'' S2, E22: Shirely gives birth in the middle of class. While the trope appears to be averted via Britta's vomiting at the sight of the birth, in the end it's played straight as the birth turns out looking clean and tidy.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Martin}}'' lampshaded this while LeaningOnTheFourthWall. A woman gave birth to what was obviously a baby doll that Martin caught in a catcher's mitt. When Coal asked about the umbilical cord, Martin said "TV babies don't have umbilical cords!".
* The Christmas episode of ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'' is pretty bad for this: Alice gives birth in the manger while playing Mary, and the kid that results comes out sparkling clean and almost a year old. She gets a little sweaty in the process.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': It was a unique birth, since Darla couldn't give birth naturally and dusted herself, but there's no sign of blood or anything on Connor at all when Angel picks him up. Granted, it was raining, but still...
* Played straight in ''Series/{{Glee}}'', where Quinn gets a ScreamingBirth scene set to "Bohemian Rhapsody."

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* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' posted an article called [[http://www.cracked.com/article_16508_6-terrifying-things-they-dont-tell-you-about-childbirth.html 6 Terrifying Things They Don't Tell You About Childbirth,]] none of which you will see in media (except for maybe the bill).

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* In ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'', Private splashes some gunk on the three older penguins when he hatches, but once that's over with he's perfectly dry and clean.

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