What films can you no longer watch since having a baby?

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Or TV programmes?
I hadn't realised how much I'd been affected until I started watching Tangled and had to turn it off when the baby is taken by the witch. Nope, nope, not happening.

What have you realised you can't watch, or you feel differently about since having a child?

A film my parents raved about. It was french, had Kristen Scott Thomas in it as a woman who killed her own disabled son. My Ds has multiple neurological issues (although we did not know it then).

I had to leave the room as I could not cope.

When I was v. pregnant with DS1 in 2001 my partner bought the film 'Midwives' with Sissy Spacek in it, thinking it would relax me. Omg we had to switch it off, mum dies in labour as ambulance can't get through the snowstorm and midwife starts to do a c section to save baby

Also couldn’t watch Titanic for years, the scene where she’s singing to the children in the bunks and the water is coming in .. shudder!

I was just coming on to say Titanic.

MuchTooTired I weep every time I watch CTM! Reminds me of my DP and of living in London at that time as a little girl .Sadly they have both passed but DM would have loved it! DH wonders why I watch it when it upsets me so!

Anything with even a whiff of a child or baby being harmed. Since having DD I feel like I'm missing a layer of skin.

Couldn’t watch game of thrones any more. Too much gratuitous violence.

I'm reading this thread alternating between "nope, no problem" and "wouldn't ever have watched that anyway"

I did resolve never to watch Torchwood: Children of Earth ever again.

I thought it was good and I'm glad I watched it; Ianto's death was sad but completely acceptable as part of the story arc; Peter Capaldi's tragic and ultimately unnecessary act gave me no problem at all. My issue was Jack having to make the decision on how they ultimately "won", and his daughter outside the room. Then when it's over the other woman (can't remember her name) says "okay, let her in".

Trainspotting and Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

It really changes you doesnt it. I hate watching violence now.

Slightly different but I couldn't watch One Born Every Minute after having been through it. I think it's too sad for me to know I'll never experience pregnancy again.

I think it's one of the predator / alien films, the alien gets into a hospital ward full of new born babies, I expect nothing happens but I have never been able to watch past that bit.

Sophie's Choice for me too.

Brave, the Pixar film. I loved it, then DD was born and I can't watch it anymore. We did manage to watch it last year because she wanted to, but I sobbed and sobbed.

I did wonder if I'd feel the same if DS had been born first, because it was the mother/daughter relationship that got me in particular...

DS was a newborn when we started watching Game of Thrones.

We watched the episode where khaleesi is in the tent with the wee baby in bed... I ended up fully under the covers violently sobbing. Dh had to turn it off.

@EishetChayil

Anything with even a whiff of a child or baby being harmed. Since having DD I feel like I'm missing a layer of skin.

I know what you mean!

@CoodleMoodle

Brave, the Pixar film. I loved it, then DD was born and I can't watch it anymore. We did manage to watch it last year because she wanted to, but I sobbed and sobbed.

I did wonder if I'd feel the same if DS had been born first, because it was the mother/daughter relationship that got me in particular...

I almost watched Brave today but went for Moana instead (excellent btw). What happens in Brave?

Any films, tbh, I'm asleep half way through.

Another vote for GOT. Fine with the general violence but the awful bits where they give the baby boys away to the white walkers made me feel really sick, especially after I found out they were actually putting those babies on blocks of ice during filming 🤬

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The missing

Scream. I used to really like the series, but the bit in the first one where Drew Barrymore's character is on the phone to her parents whilst she's being stabbed, and her mother says, in this agonised voice: "I can hear her."

All the nope.

@Toomuchtooyoung01

And The Land Before Time when the baby dinosaur is looking for his mum

And then he curls up in her footprint 😭

Stepmom with Julia Roberts, and not without my daughter with Sally field, I cry too much!!

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Both Mamma Mias - Slipping Through My Fingers in the first, and My Life, My Love in the second. The bit in the sequel where Meryl Streep's character gazes at her daughter while singing, 'you're my one and only...' just destroys me.

@Creamcrackersandricecakes

Both Mamma Mias - Slipping Through My Fingers in the first, and My Life, My Love in the second. The bit in the sequel where Meryl Streep's character gazes at her daughter while singing, 'you're my one and only...' just destroys me.

I saw MM2 whilst pregnant and having lost my mum to cancer. Not my smartest move!

Sophie’s Choice.