It's raining baby shows.

House of Babies

A Baby Story

Bringing Home a Baby

Birth in America

Who knew there were so many TV shows about babies? Not only that, but some of them are on twice a day. Twice a day! When we get home now and turn on Tivo, everybody’s in labor all the time. No plot lines, no characters, no beautiful story arcs with heroes and villains and a grande denouement, just water breaking and stirrups and screaming and hairless little wet babies popping out every 27 minutes right between diaper commercials. Man I hope the writer’s strike ends soon. Who decided on this programming anyway? I guarantee you it wasn't a man. No man was sitting around thinking, "You know what we don't have enough of? Giving birth on TV. There's not nearly enough video of women actually passing a human on cable. I feel like lots of intimate medical footage of random people is exactly what we need to round out the winter lineup." The worst thing in the world would be if this actually caught on. And don't think it's not possible. Before ESPN, the idea of a 24 hour channel dedicated to sports was ridiculous. Now, there's a dedicated fishing channel. Don't kid yourself, an hour long show reality show about some regional midwifery competition is just around the corner. I've lost control of my Tivo. Save yourselves. :(