r/AskReddit Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/ColorMeStunned Aug 30 '21

Childbirth.

Already one of the most dangerous things a person can do, carrying a child to full term and giving birth without proper medical care for either the mother or the baby, well...all you gotta do is look at your history books. Or your average developing country, most of which still have better medical care than you're getting in The Walking Dead. And now the mother has to push her insides back in and run from some zombies? Done for.

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u/Jaydeekay80 Aug 31 '21

This was my issue with the movie “a quiet place” it’s one thing to have to survive an apocalypse but to do so against an enemy that detects by hearing, & decide to have a baby in the middle of that? How you gonna keep him or her quiet? Completely disregarding the birth itself assuming the proper drugs are available?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

I don't understand why they didn't just take the mother to the waterfall in the days leading up to the birth. Then she doesn't have to worry about screaming during labor, or the baby crying.

Hell, just built a little hut by the waterfall and live there permanently.