The Slumdog Effect

That which seemed so insignificant suddenly starts to matter once you learn you that you are about to become a mother.

While I was pregnant, it seemed like every book and movie that I encountered contained the worst-case-scenarios of childbirth and motherhood. I have decided that there should be a list of books and movies: "Don't Watch Or Read These If You Are Expecting a Baby". Please, readers, help me in this prospect and add to this list.

1) Pan's Labyrinth

2) Hancock

3) Breaking Dawn (Twilight Series)

4) Slumdog Millionaire

I had originally written a brief synopsis about why each movie and book is on this list, but it was just too macabre. Let me just say that when I watched Slumdog Millionaire, I was 7 months pregnant and would cry if I saw a commercial for a school lunch program. Can you imagine my reaction when, in the movie, a tiny helpless baby is crying in the arms of an impoverished 10-year-old girl? It was at that very moment that being a mother meant something different for the first time in my life.

I am looking forward to more of these revelations as my parental experience broadens. Stay tuned for the blog entry once I've realized that my own mother WAS right all of those times. Shudder.