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* French film ''Film/{{Romance}}'' has what appears to be an actual birth. Close-up of the vagina and everything.

* Animal variant: In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', all the baby rats that are seen evacuating the colony's old home are fully furred and open-eyed, with not a pinkie to be seen. However, this might be played with, as we don't know exactly how long ago the babies were born.

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* ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'' borders on parody, as Baby Pubert is even able to baby-talk and crawl as soon as he gets home from the hospital. And, of course, he has Gomez's mustache. This can probably all be {{justified|trope}} by noting that Addamses aren't ''supposed'' to be normal.

* Averted in the Creator/TomClancy novel ''Literature/TheBearAndTheDragon'', where President Ryan allowed the press to briefly film his newborn fourth child shortly after his birth.

* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': Inverted in the novel ''Literature/{{Barrayar}}'': Bothari tries to pass the newborn Ivan Vorpatril as being a few months old, but the person he's trying to fool quickly figures out that the boy's stated age would be correct if he changed 'weeks' to 'hours'.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats,'' newborn kittens start walking and talking a day or two after they're born. Real kittens don't start walking until they're around three weeks old.

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* Averted in "Fanfic/BrotherOnBrotherDaughterOnMother". The DistantFinale shows Kanril Eleya giving birth to her fourth child, which she describes when she's handed to her as "wrinkled and red in the face and perfect."

* Animal variant: In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', all the baby rats that are seen evacuating the colony's old home are fully furred and open-eyed, with not a pinkie to be seen. However, this might be played with, as we don't know exactly how long ago the babies were born.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': Newborn Simba is quite large and he already has his eyes opened. In real life, newborn cubs are smaller and their eyes open after a few days.

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* An extreme example in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', where the newborn Luke and Leia, and the droid midwife, were all CGI, but still look like four-month-olds.

* Taken to its most insane in Rudy Ray Moore's ''Petey Wheatstraw, the Devils' Son-in-Law'', where the titular character emerges from the womb looking about twelve years old and ''wearing a diaper''! He then attacks his doctor.

* Total [[AvertedTrope aversion]] in the film ''Window Water Baby Moving'' by Stan Brakhage, in which Brakhage actually films his own wife in the few days before giving birth, as well as the filming during the birthing process... from up close. The fact that the film that there is no music or dialogue only highlights the intense (and {{squick}}y nature) of birth. The camera only being a foot away from his wife's... "area" also lends to this feeling.

* In the TV movie ''Film/MillionDollarBabies'', about the Dionne quintuplets, the producers used animatronic dolls for the newborn quints. Using older babies to represent the newborn Dionne girls, who were two months premature, and small for that, would have been ridiculous, and defeatist as well, since it's a major portion of the first half-hour of the film that the girls are tiny, premature, and not expected to live. In addition to that, finding five babies who looked like would be difficult. Obviously, using real, underweight newborns or preemies was out of the question. The film was made before CGI was an option.
* ''Film/{{Junior}}'' has [[ItMakesSenseInContext Arnold Schwarzenegger give birth]], and like George Lopez, 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.
* French film ''Romance'' has what appears to be an actual birth. Close-up of the vagina and everything.
* Averted as much as possible in ''Film/ManOfSteel'', where newborn Kal-El is all CGI for the birth scene.
* 1929 Soviet experimental documentary ''Film/ManWithAMovieCamera'', basically a DayInTheLife of the Soviet Union, includes among other things real footage of a woman really popping a baby out.
* ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'' borders on parody, as Baby Pubert is even able to baby-talk and crawl as soon as he gets home from the hospital. And, of course, he has Gomez's mustache. This can probably all be {{justified|trope}} by noting that Addamses aren't ''supposed'' to be normal.
* Initially averted in the Creator/RhysDarby/Creator/SashaAlexander romcom ''Film/ComingAndGoing'': during the birth scene the baby is heard but never shown, even though [[spoiler:its skin color is a plot point]]. The baby is shown a few hours later, however, and it's not as large as some of the newborns falling under this trope.
* Played straight in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'', in which Fanny, John Little's wife, gives birth to a very large newborn [[spoiler:via Caesarian section performed by Azeem]]--though it is true that if any of Robin's men were to sire a giant infant, it would be Little John.

* When Blake hands Michelle her newborn son in ''Film/LeftForDead'', the baby is very large. CleanPrettyChildbirth is averted, however, as the baby is covered in blood.

* In ''Literature/TheBestChristmasPageantEver,'' one of the "babies" offered to play baby Jesus in the Christmas pageant is a four-year-old. His mother says he can scrunch up.

* Either TV Land or Nick-at-Nite once ran a commercial that lampshaded the entire TV-birth process, including this trope. It went something like this:
-->'''Kid:''' Where do babies come from?\\
'''Mother:''' Well, when two TV characters love each other very much, generally in the third season, the woman wears a very special pillow on her tummy. For three to five episodes. The [[PanickyExpectantFather man panics]], and the woman is rushed off to hair and makeup, so she can look fresh as a daisy. And voila – four-month-old newborns!

* Parodied on ''[[Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow George Lopez]]''. Any time a flashback occurs where George is an infant, it's an infant's body with George's head computer generated on.

* Swedish comedian Jan Bylund about when his daughter was born:
-->So I called him right away and said "You're a grandfather!", and my dad asked [[StrongFamilyResemblance "Who does she look like?!"]] Twenty minutes after a child has been born, you should not answer that question honestly, I tell you. "Who does she look like?!" Yeah, well... [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]], except blue.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'', the characters go to a farm. Off-screen they see a newborn calf and are grossed out by the afterbirth.
* Literally every baby in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', with Dil to a lesser extent. Dil's a newborn, yet he can say a few words and hold his own bottle. Meanwhile, Chuckie is two years old and can only say the word "no" around the adults. In real life, 2-year-olds are typically more verbal than that.
* On the day Pebbles was born on ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', she had enough hair for a ponytail. What's more, it's bright red. Adult redheads tend to have thin hair. Baby gingers should look nearly bald.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{TOTS}}'', it is explicitly stated that the delivery storks deliver babies on the day they are born. However, all of the babies look and behave more like toddlers.

A subtrope of DawsonCasting, one specifically about newborns, or at least TV so-called newborns. Whenever a supposedly just-born child appears on TV, the baby you will see will actually be several months old. Put this down to a mixture of simple ethics, employment laws, casting laws, and logistics that make it unacceptable to cast a real newborn in such a role. This is because sound stages are hot, loud, bright, stuffy, and dusty places--not a great environment for a newborn infant prone to infection and unable to control body temperature.

This can have [[TheCoconutEffect an unfortunate side effect]], because RealityIsUnrealistic, making a person's first encounter with a real newborn possibly {{squick}}y. Real newborns aren't clean-looking gurgling bundles of cuteness. They're covered in mucus, 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 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). They may also be covered in a waxy white substance called vernix caseosum, which is basically just congealed skin oils, dead cells, and lanugo and serves as a sort of moisturizer for the baby before birth, when they were still submerged in amniotic fluid. Their skin will usually have a red hue to it as well and look somewhat "wrinkly", especially if they are considered premature. On top of all this, most newborns have noticeably misshapen heads from the birth process, since their skulls aren't yet closed and their bones are very flexible.[[note]]Babies delivered by cesarean section either do not have this, or it is far less pronounced.[[/note]] 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 of days old are generally UglyCute at best. [[Literature/GoodOmens It's been said that all newborn babies look like]] UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill.

In fiction, birth is [[CleanPrettyChildbirth a much cleaner, nicer]] ([[ScreamingBirth but still painful for the mother]]) process, and in American films and TV shows, usually happens in a tent. The four-month-old tot pops out of his/her mommy as clean as whistle, gets bundled up, and is handed to Mommy (or possibly Daddy), looking around serenely. Don't expect this in real life, where a healthy newborn ''should'' actually be screaming and wailing loudly (as this indicates that they are breathing normally).[[note]] Although C-section and waterbirth babies do ''usually'' tend to start screaming a bit later, instead of right away like babies born the "normal" way, because they tend to take a little more time to process that their environment has changed.[[/note]]

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

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This can have [[TheCoconutEffect an unfortunate side effect]], because RealityIsUnrealistic, making a person's first encounter with a real newborn possibly {{squick}}y. Real newborns aren't clean-looking gurgling bundles of cuteness. They're covered in mucus, 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 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). They may also be covered in a waxy white substance called vernix caseosum, which is basically just congealed skin oils, dead cells, and lanugo and serves as a sort of moisturizer for the baby before birth, when they were still submerged in amniotic fluid. Their skin will usually have a red hue to it as well and look somewhat "wrinkly", especially if they are considered premature. On top of all this, most newborns have noticeably misshapen heads from the birth process, since their skulls aren't yet closed and their bones are very flexible.[[note]]Babies delivered by cesarean section either do not have this, or it is far less pronounced.[[/note]] 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 of days old are generally UglyCute at best. It's been said that all newborn babies look like UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill.

A subtrope of DawsonCasting, one specifically about newborns, or at least TV so-called newborns. Whenever a supposedly just-born child appears on TV, the baby you will see will actually be several months old. Put this down to a mixture of simple ethics, employment laws, casting laws, and logistics that make it unacceptable to cast a real newborn in such a role. This is because sound stages are hot, bright, stuffy, and dusty places--not a great environment for a newborn infant prone to infection and unable to control body temperature.

This can have [[TheCoconutEffect an unfortunate side effect]], because 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 mucus, 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 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). They may also be covered in a waxy white substance called vernix caseosum, which is basically just congealed skin oils, dead cells, and lanugo and serves as a sort of moisturizer for the baby before birth, when they were still submerged in amniotic fluid. Their skin will usually have a red hue to it as well and look somewhat "wrinkly", especially if they are considered premature. On top of all this, most newborns have noticeably misshapen heads from the birth process, since their skulls aren't yet closed and their bones are very flexible.[[note]]Babies delivered by cesarean section either do not have this, or it is far less pronounced.[[/note]] 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 of days old are generally UglyCute at best. It's been said that all newborn babies look like UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill.

** Taken to extremes by Arctic seals, which give birth on unstable pack ice. Because there's no solid place on which to park a baby seal for longer than a few weeks, tops, female seals bear highly-developed young that only need to nurse for a short period, as little as ''four days'' for hooded seals. For those that spend a bit longer, being precocial also helps keep them safe while their mothers are away, leading to the adorable sights (and sounds) of [[https://youtu.be/RM2f0vOxcFc of 'yelling' harp seals]] on the Arctic pack ice.

** Taken to extremes by Arctic seals, which give birth on unstable pack ice. Because there's no solid place on which to park a baby seal for longer than a few weeks, tops, female seals bear highly-developed young that only need to nurse for a short period, as little as ''four days'' for hooded seals. For those that spend a bit longer, being precocial also helps keep them safe while their mothers are away, leading to the adorable sights (and sounds) of [[https://youtu.be/RM2f0vOxcFc of ‘yelling’ harp seals]] on the Arctic pack ice.

** Taken to extremes by Arctic seals, which give birth on unstable pack ice. Because there's no solid place on which to park a baby seal for longer than a few weeks, tops, female seals bear highly-developed young that only need to nurse for a short period, as little as ''four days'' for hooded seals.

* In ''Literature/WarriorCats,'' newborn kittens start walking and talking a day or two after they're born.

* In the TV movie ''Million Dollar Babies'', about the Dionne quintuplets, the producers used animatronic dolls for the newborn quints. Using older babies to represent the newborn Dionne girls, who were two months premature, and small for that, would have been ridiculous, and defeatist as well, since it's a major portion of the first half-hour of the film that the girls are tiny, premature, and not expected to live. In addition to that, finding five babies who looked like would be difficult. Obviously, using real, underweight newborns or preemies was out of the question. The film was made before CGI was an option.

* Initially averted in the Rhys Darby/Sasha Alexander romcom ''Coming and Going'': during the birth scene the baby is heard but never shown, even though [[spoiler:its skin color is a plot point]]. The baby is shown a few hours later, however, and it's not as large as some of the newborns falling under this trope.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'', Dil can say the words “poopy” and “mine”, and can hold his own bottle, but otherwise behaves like a typical newborn. However, the musical number in the maternity ward features newborns who can sing when they’re only about a few minutes old. Either those babies are geniuses or Dil is literally dumber than a monkey.

* Literally every baby in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', with Dil to a lesser extent. Dil’s a newborn, yet he can say a few words and hold his own bottle. Meanwhile, Chuckie is two years old and can only say the word “no” around the adults. In real life, 2-year-olds are typically more verbal than that.

* A bizarre case overlapping with real life that also showed RealityIsUnrealistic in 2004 when Bobbie Jo Stinnett was murdered by Lisa L. Montgomery and had [[TraumaticCSection her baby crudely cut from her womb]], with Montgomery claiming the baby was hers and taking her home. When investigators arrived at Montgomery's home and saw the infant, they noticed that the day-old baby's head was round and not conical, which was an indication that the child had not been delivered vaginally, as Montgomery claimed. This is because a newborn's skeleton is mainly formed by cartilage (the flexible structure in your nose or ears), rather than bone. An infant’s skull also features flexible points referred to as fontanelles that are designed to move slightly to allow the baby to descend through the birth canal - being pushed out of a vagina puts a fair bit of pressure on the infant's skull, and the fontanelles do their job, resulting in a distinctive shape that usually takes about a week or so to disappear. This, along with other evidence, allowed them to arrest Montgomery and return the baby to her real father.

* Ditto for ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', where both Luke and Leia are CG and so is the droid midwife. Yet they still looked like this.