Warnings about triggers in popular media

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This sticky thread is intended for comments that identify movies, TV shows, and any other forms of popular media that are especially insensitive and/or gut-wrenching for those of us who have been through a perinatal loss.

Please state the name of the show (including the specific episode if applicable), and then within spoiler tags, briefly describe the problematic content. (Spoiler tags start with a 'greater than' and 'exclamation point', and end with 'exclamation point' and 'less than'.)

Posted Jul 14, 2019, 3:39 PM UTC · edited

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Darling-Jess•

The Handmaid’s Tale: season 3 episode 8.

!A side character gives birth to a stillborn baby due to nuchal cord (cord around neck). They show the dead baby a few times and there is screaming that’ll hit you in your soul. Happens in the 12-20 minute range I believe.!<

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lolwtfnodude•

I feel like this whole series should be a trigger warning.

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DramaGuy23OPDaddy to an Angel•

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

!The evil wizard takes over a house by cold-blooded murdering the occupants, including less-than-a-year-old baby!<

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DramaGuy23OPDaddy to an Angel•

The Girl on the Train. It’s a book and a movie.

!A baby drowned/died when the mom accidentally fell asleep in the bathtub with her on her chest.!<

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lolwtfnodude•

Orange is The New Black-

EDIT- cant get the spoiler tags to work! I tried :(

!Season 6 Episode 13- Lorna goes into premature labour, lots of blood

Early season 7 its revealed she had a emergency c section and baby survived. She shows the other girls pics of him in NICU

Season 7 Episode 4- Her husband comes to visit, tells her baby got pneumonia and didn't make it. The look on his face tells us everything before he even says a word.

Then Lorna goes into denial, tells the girls her baby is fine and coming home from hospital :(!<

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Dtazlyon•

I wish I had seen this before I watched the season...her loss but me hard. I’ve never felt so connected to a fictional character before. :(

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Freakymookie•

blarrrrgh me toooooo

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signupinsecondssss•

Try adding a space between the tags and the word season and the :( at the end.

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wintergraffiti•

Living With Yourself

Season one episode five

!A pregnancy resulting in a miscarriage needing a D&C. Nothing is shown besides being in a hospital but it is discussed and the doctor discussing it with the characters is a jerk.!<

Season one episode eight/last episode

!A pregnancy is revealed by the character who had the d&c earlier on.!<

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Cptsnuggles21•

Black Mirror, Season 2 Episode 1

!The couple reconnect after losing a ~8 year old child!<

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Ikbensterdam•

Also Black Mirror, Season 4, Episode 3.

! A woman murders an approximately 1 year old baby !<

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lspipit1•

Virgin River (Netflix series) stillborn baby

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eightiesfanWill | Born Sleeping @ 28+4 | 03.27.19•

Call the Midwife - Series 4, episode 2

!A mother gives birth to twins, one of whom is stillborn.!<

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Ikbensterdam•

Roma - movie on Netflix

! Graphic stillbirth !<

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mommyof4not2•

San Andreas

Spoiler/ trigger warning

Towards the end of the movie when he's doing CPR on his daughter and stuff, just really triggered me about the death of my son, who I preformed CPR on. I know she's a teen, but I probably would have done better with some warning that that was going to happen.

10/10 on the parents' acting though, pretty realistic.

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signupinsecondssss•

Agents of Shield, season 4

! Mac had a daughter who died at 4 days old. An alternate simulated reality is created by someone, which mimics real life but takes away 1 regret for each person in it. Mac’s regret is obviously his daughter dying, so she’s alive in that reality. He chooses to stay even knowing it’s simulated, but then the reality/simulation is being destroyed and his daughter disappears and he has to return to the real world. I liked how they handled it. !<

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Literally_Savannah•

American Horror Story, Season 1 - (Murder House)

!It's mentioned off and on throughout the season; it's one of the reasons the main characters moved to this new house. Then they find out the previous owners ran an illegal abortion clinic in the basement.!<

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signupinsecondssss•

Degrassi, later seasons

! Clare gets pregnant and has either a late miscarriage or a stillbirth. It’s pretty vague on the weeks she’s at, but in my mind it makes more sense as a stillbirth but they don’t clarify. She’s far enough along that they have to induce labor. They discuss footprints, pictures, etc. !<

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strayboat•

The Witcher, season 1 episode 4.

!A baby is stabbed and dies. Body is shown a couple times before being buried under sand!<

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maggymeow•

The Witch

! A baby is taken from a witch and is killed for sacrifice, you don’t really see the act, but the witch rubs the baby’s blood on herself afterwards !<

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maggymeow•

Mother!

! “mother goes into labor and finds Him. He takes her to his study, which he reopens so she can give birth there. The havoc outside subsides. Him tells mother his fans want to see their newborn son; she refuses and holds her son tightly. When she falls asleep, however, Him takes their child outside to the crowd, which passes the baby around wildly until his neck is inadvertently snapped. mother wades into the crowd where she sees people eating her son's mutilated corpse. Furious, she calls them murderers and stabs them with a shard of glass. They turn on her, viciously beating and attempting to strangle her until Him intervenes” !<

I hated this movie so much.

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sam0184Mama to an Angel•

How to Get Away With Murder

Basically the whole series on and off overarching storyline. Not every episode but most of them.

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