Lying around watching movies while munching on snack foods that are perched on your bump is the single BEST thing about being pregnant.
(Unless of course you already have a child in which case during pregnancy you will be expected to continue working long hours, functioning at a high level, with continued heavy lifting and operating complex folding pram systems. Soz.)
1. Look Who’s Talking
This is mandatory viewing, mainly to marvel at just how awesome pregnant Kirstie Alley looks in denim dungarees. The water breaking scene alone makes this a classic. It also made me mistakenly believe that I too could carry off dungarees while gestating. I could not.
“AGGHHHH, help, help put me back in!!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOB_MqcaZHw
2. Nine Months
Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore get preggers. Joan Cusack and Tom Arnold are their friends. Jeff Goldblum’s in it. Robin Williams plays the obstetrician. Need we say more?
“I’m pregnant.”
“Right.”
“Right……WHAT?”
3. Away We Go
This in an adorable story of expectant couple John Krasinski and Maya Rudolf going on a sweet road trip with their bump to find a new home. A brilliant soundtrack by Alexi Murdock and appearances by Maggie Gyllenhaal and Alison Janney (playing two mums you NEVER want to be) make this movie a total gem.
“Hey Lowell, I used to have nice jugs right? They sucked me dry. Now I just tuck them into my socks.”
4. Juno
Another brilliant soundtrack and another instance of Alison Janney being absolutely awesome. Juno got the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for good reason, the film practically has its own lexicon.
“That ain’t no etch-a-sketch, this is one doodle that can’t be undid, home skillet.”
5. Knocked Up
Funny flick about an unplanned pregnancy featuring one of the most memorable birth scenes of all times.
“What do you think of him?”
“He’s playing fetch with my kids, he’s treating my kids like dogs.”
6. Junior
Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger play scientists who engineer the first pregnant man. A testament to Arnie’s 90s appeal is that even with child he manages to snare a hottie like Emma Thompson as his love interest.
“Guys do not have babies, we leave that to the women. That’s the beauty of being a guy.”
7. Raising Arizona
A classic from the Coen brothers that will make you feel infinitely more capable of raising your forthcoming baby. Holly Hunter and Nicholas Cage are unlikely lovers who when they find they are unable to conceive naturally or adopt a child set out to steal themselves a baby from local family who have just had quintuplets.
“You go right back up there and get me a toddler, I need a baby, HI, they’ve got more than they can handle.”
8. She’s Having a Baby
80s legend, John Hughes, directs Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern as a newly married couple (both sporting intensely cool 80s hair) as they navigate the choppy waters of newlywed-dom.
“It’s been 48 hours since our last intercourse, my temperature is optimum, I’m ovulating, I have the pillows set up in the position, you can watch TV if you get bored. Here’s to successful fertilisation.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqsBuxC2g1k
9. Father of the Bride Part II
You know the creepier FOTB when Diane Keaton and her daughter get pregnant at the SAME time.
“Mother of the bride and a bubbie??? Get out of town.”
10. What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Based on the pregnancy bible, WTEWYE charts the progress of five very different sets of parents as they embark on the rocky road to parenthood.
“Pregnancy sucks, making a human being is really hard. I have no control over my body or my emotions.”
Sub-list: 3 movies to never EVER watch while pregnant
1. Rosemary’s Baby
Poor Mia Farrow has a more difficult pregnancy than most when everyone around her conspires to impregnate her with the son of Satan. Sh*t buzz.
“This is no dream, this is really happening.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PewtQsgN5uo
2. We Need to Talk about Kevin
Based on the book by Lional Shriver (Also to be avoided during gestation), WNTTAK will make you want to SERIOUSLY back out of parenthood before the sleep deprivation has even begun.
“He’s just a boy, just a sweet little boy.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGjjK5SMbJA
3. Steel Magnolias
Billed as the “funniest movie that will make you cry”. Whether it makes you totes emosh or you find it hilarious the fact is a pregnant woman’s bladder is probably not up to this particular emotional roller coaster.
