History Main / ThreeMonthOldNewborn

* Quite neatly averted in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "A Good Man Goes To War". Although it's the first time we see the baby, the previous episode ended just before the birth, and the opening scene [[YourMileageMayVary appears at first to be just-post-birth]], a throwaway line of dialogue near the beginning of the episode establishes that it's been a month since the baby was actually born, accounting for this trope.

* Parodied on ''GeorgeLopez''. Anytime a flashback occurs where George is an infant, it's an infant's body with George's head computer generated on.

* ''{{Junior}}'' has [[ItMakesSenseInContext Arnold Schwarzenegger give birth]] and like GeorgeLopez they CGI his adult face onto a CGI baby... It's NightmareFuel for everyone, including Arnold, which is fair, as it is a nightmare in the film.

* ''Romance'' has what appears to be an actual birth. Close-up of vagina and everything.

* Little baby Jake in the ''SesameStreet'' spin off, ''SesameEnglish'' (which teaches English to foreigners, starting with Taiwanese and Chinese), is portrayed by RogerBart (who was 37 at the time of first airing) of all people.

* Spike Lee's ''She Hate Me'' averted this in a rather traumatizing fashion. Not one, but two births were actually filmed and used in the movie. Pretty squicky stuff, especially since you expect the standard "mother screaming/cut to clean, swaddled child." Nope. You get two real kids popping out of real mothers right before your very eyes.
* Likewise, the crew of ''Caligula'' kept a number of expectant mothers on set in order to capture a real birth for Caligula's child. When one of the women went into labor, she was immediately rushed onto the set and filmed.

* ''Junior'' has [[ItMakesSenseInContext Arnold Schwarzenegger give birth]] and like GeorgeLopez they CGI his adult face onto a CGI baby... It's NightmareFuel for everyone, including Arnold, which is fair, as it is a nightmare in the film.

* ''Junior'' has [[ItMakesSenseInContext Arnold Schwarzenegger give birth]] and like GeorgeLopez they CGI his adult face onto a CGI baby...it's Nightmare Fuel for everyone, including Arnold, which is fair it is a Nightmare in the film.

* Oddly in Disney's ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', not only is Rapunzel months-old size on her day of birth, she also has a full head of hair!

* Spike Lee's "She Hate Me" averted this in a rather traumatizing fashion. Not one, but two births were actually filmed and used in the movie. Pretty squicky stuff, especially since you expect the standard "mother screaming/cut to clean, swaddled child." Nope. You get two real kids popping out of real mothers right before your very eyes.

* ''Junior'' has [[ItMakesSenseInContext Arnold Schwarzenegger give birth]] and like GeorgeLopez they CGI his adult face onto a CGI baby...it's Nightmare fuel for everyone, including Arnold, which is fair it is a Nightmare in the film.

* Similarly parodied in the ''Chappelle's Show'' parody of Antwone Fisher, where close-up shots of newborn Dave show his adult head. (Wider shots show an obviously fake baby - with an enormous penis.)

* One SaturdayNightLive skit has the newborn baby played by WillFerrell.
* The first-season episode "Brief Candle" of StargateSG1 appears to play this straight, with a newborn obviously larger than this troper's two-month-old child. May be justified, however, due to the RapidAging central to the plot.
* In the fifth season premiere of StargateAtlantis, the baby used to portray Teyla's newborn is about two weeks old. The commentary notes that they were counting down when the actual expectant mother would have her baby since it had to be at least 14 days old before they could use it in the scene.
* Little baby Jake in the SesameStreet spin off, SesameEnglish (which teaches English to foreigners, starting with Taiwanese and Chinese), is portrayed by RogerBart (who was 37 at the time of first airing) of all people.

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* In ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', a pregnant woman traveling with Team Avatar goes into labor and gives birth to a clean, pale, smooth little girl that looks like she's at least a month and a half. Katara even calls the baby "beautiful". Most likely a JustifiedTrope, as this ''is'' a children's cartoon and they were pushing the envelope just by featuring a birth to begin with.
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This can have an unfortunate side effect, due to the fact that RealityIsUnrealistic, making a person's first encounter with a real newborn possibly {{squick}}y. Real newborns aren't clean looking gurgling bundles of cuteness. Real newborns are covered in things like blood, amniotic fluid, and other bodily substances, up to and including fecal matter. There is a chance they could be covered in a peach fuzz like substance called lanugo (a possible evolutionary remnant of when our ancestors were a lot hairier than we are now; most fetuses lose it before birth but obviously, a few don't). Their skin will usually have a red hue to it as well, and look somewhat "wrinkly", especially if they are considerably premature. On top of all this most newborns have noticeably deformed heads from the birth process since their skulls aren't yet closed and their bones are very flexible. To say nothing of the placenta that should be popping out with the babe. Even newborns that have been cleaned up and are a couple days old are generally UglyCute at best. It's been said that all babies look like WinstonChurchill.

* ''Junior'' has [[ItMakesSenseInContext Arnold Schwarzenegger give birth]] and like GeorgeLopez they CGI his adult face onto a CGI baby...it's Nightmare fule for everyone, including Arnold, which is fair it is a Nightmare in the film.

This can have an unfortunate side effect, due to the fact that RealityIsUnrealistic, making a person's first encounter with a real newborn possibly {{squick}}y. Real newborns aren't clean looking gurgling bundles of cuteness. Real newborns are covered in things like blood, amniotic fluid, and other bodily substances, up to and including fecal matter. There is a chance they could be covered in a peach fuzz like substance called lanugo (an evolutionary remnant of when our ancestors were a lot hairier than we are now; most fetuses lose it before birth but obviously, a few don't). Their skin will usually have a red hue to it as well, and look somewhat "wrinkly", especially if they are considerably premature. On top of all this most newborns have noticeably deformed heads from the birth process since their skulls aren't yet closed and their bones are very flexible. To say nothing of the placenta that should be popping out with the babe. Even newborns that have been cleaned up and are a couple days old are generally UglyCute at best. It's been said that all babies look like WinstonChurchill.

* Aaron on ''{{Lost}}'' was actually a newborn at birth, but thereafter was played by a series of significantly older babies. Of course, it's difficult to find blond, blue-eyed babies in Hawaii, especially to play a character who only ages two months in three seasons of episodes.

* Hera on ''BattlestarGalactica'' is born tiny, bloody, and generally looking slightly premature.

* Quite neatly averted in the DoctorWho episode "A Good Man Goes To War". Although it's the first time we see the baby, the previous episode ended just before the birth, and the opening scene [[YourMileageMayVary appears at first to be just-post-birth]], a throwaway line of dialogue near the beginning of the episode establishes that it's been a month since the baby was actually born, accounting for this trope.

* Quite neatly averted in the DoctorWho episode "A Good Man Goes To War". Although it's the first time we see the baby, the previous episode ended just before the birth, and the opening scene [[YMMV appears at first to be just-post-birth]], a throwaway line of dialogue near the beginning of the episode establishes that it's been a month since the baby was actually born, accounting for this trope.

* ''Junior'' has [[ItMakesSenseInContext ArnoldSwarzenager give birth]] and like GeorgeLopez they CGI his adult face onto a CGI baby...it's Nightmare fule for everyone, including Arnold, which is fair it is a Nightmare in the film.

* ''Junior'' has [ItMakesSenseInContext: ArnoldSwarzenager give birth] and like GeorgeLopez they CGI his adult face onto a CGI baby...it's Nightmare fule for everyone, including Arnold, which is fair it is a Nightmare in the film.

* ''Junior'' has [[ItMakessenseInContext: ArnoldSwarzenager give birth]] and like GeorgeLopez they CGI his adult face onto a CGI baby...it's Nightmare fule for everyone, including Arnold, which is fair it is a Nightmare in the film.

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This is a fairly ubiquitous trope so only aversions, subversions, inversions, parodies and the like should be added.

* In the 1999 movie ''{{Cleopatra}}'', when Cleopatra gives birth to her son, the physician hands him over to her just seconds after he comes out. Not only is he (and the blanket he's bundled in) perfectly clean and pristine looking, but he's also ''considerably'' large to be a newborn - making it obvious that the infant that was used had to have been at least 6-8 months.
* Played very straight in Adrienne Shelly's indie film ''Waitress''.

* The NostalgiaChick is quick to note how Nicole's baby is "smegmaless" and "Caucasian" after it's born in ''SpiceWorld''.

* ''{{Angel}}'', Connor came out of Darla relatively clean. However, given that she's a vampire, and she staked herself to deliver him, the fluids would've turned to dust and vaporized. Also it was raining. Still, Connor lacked the wrinkled face common to newborns.
** He also lacked a placenta, which is made up primarily of fetal tissue and probably shouldn't have disintegrated with Darla.

* ''{{Glee}}'': This was done in the season finale. Quinn gave birth to what looked like a 4 month old.

* Played straight in {{Firefly}} in the episode "Heart of Gold", in which a prostitute gives birth to what looks like a 1-year-old.

* On ''{{Roseanne}}'', the child playing Jackie's son Andy appears to be 4-5 months old. However, Roseanne mentions that Jackie is still in the post partnum period where she's not allowed to have sex, which only lasts for six weeks after birth.

* According to the [[AllThereInTheManual companion book]], a half-Bajoran, half-Cardassian newborn was needed for an episode of ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', so they got the guys who built [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]] to do it. Sadly (and hilariously), the baby really ''looked'' like a [[NightmareFuel Cardassian/Bajoran Chucky]], so in the end they used a normal doll wrapped in a blanket and had one cutaway scene, using a [[DawsonBabies four-month-old]] with a small rubber prosthetic forehead applied with K-Y Jelly.

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