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  • Basic Trope: Childbirth is presented as clean and tidy, with no bodily fluids or other Squick involved.
  • Straight: Alice gives birth to a baby. The baby is clean and dry, and barely looks like a newborn at all.
  • Exaggerated: Alice gives birth as casually as a trip to the bathroom.
  • Downplayed: The baby comes out vaguely damp, and only needs a brief wipe down with a cloth.
  • Justified:
    • Alice is a Robot Girl, and thus efficiently deals with everything so her daughter is clean on arrival.
    • Alice is a literal Goddess, and thus willfully chooses clean childbirth.
  • Inverted: The Screaming Birth is shown in graphic detail, even more than in real life. Alice is all red in the face and sweaty from exertion, vomits several times, loses blood, and yes, defecates and urinates as she pushes. Plus her water breaking and delivering the placenta.
  • Subverted: The baby seems clean, only for the camera to pan over a trash can full of various hospital towels soaked in bodily fluids.
  • Double Subverted: Said towels were from a unrelated surgery.
  • Parodied: Babies arrive already diapered and swaddled, complete with bassinet, in a shower of daisies, to a round of applause from everyone in the house.
  • Zig Zagged: Some births are shown in graphic detail, others are not.
  • Averted: Alice's childbirth is portrayed realistically.
  • Enforced:
  • Lampshaded: "Wait, you just gave birth? Do they prioritize washing newborns or something?"
  • Invoked: Carol, wanting to show up Alice, uses magic so her daughter is born squeaky clean.
  • Exploited: The doctors play on Alice's insecurities about "being disgusting" in front of Bob and anyone else she's going to have with her. They give her an enema before she starts pushing (so that the only thing she'll be pushing out is the baby). And they keep the view hidden from Bob and everyone else.
  • Defied: Designing Alice as an infiltrator unit, Emperor Evulz considers tidy childbirth to be too suspicious.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: "Childbirth isn't pretty like on TV. As an L&D nurse, let's just say I've seen some shit."

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