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Premie?

posted 17 years ago by mylifeisthecinema
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Who thought that Shelly's 5 week premature baby looked pretty darned healthy and big?

She obviously states that she still had "6 weeks or so" until the baby came, then a week later she gives birth, when Vada returns home from her 5 day adventure. I mean why not just say 2 or 3 weeks?

Also as another poster has mentioned how DID all the friends know the mom was dead? I mean it is plausible that yeah they did hear about it, but who would have told them? Harry would most likely be the one to tell them and in that case why didn't Harry shorten Vada's adventure by telling her her moms friends names??

Oh because it's a movie....and because of a whirlwind romance (at least 10-12 months) Maggie never felt obligated to tell her new husband any of her friends names or have him meet any.

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[–] baileyfam7 15 years ago

To answer your first question, most movie births show a newborn to be so big because the child labor laws state that babies have to be a certain age before they can "work" in a movie. So while it might not be realistic...that's just how they do it in the movies. And really, the baby isn't considered a premie if it's born at week 36. So if it was the week before Vada's spring break when she first said she still had 6 weeks, and she had the baby two weeks later (at the end of Vada's spring break), the baby would've been considered term even if it was before the due date. So technically the baby could've been at a normal weight at the time of birth. Having two kids myself, I can say that they can be anywhere from 6lbs to 9lbs in the weeks before the due date.

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