"Babies" documentary on Netflix Instant Lineup

Just noticed tonight that the documentary "Babies" is now on the Netflix instant download lineup.  We're just sitting down to watch it now so I don't know if it's any good or not, but I know it has been mentioned on here before and a lot of people were interested in seeing it back then.

I have that in my queue!  The kids want to watch it with me, so I'll be interested to hear if it's kid-appropriate.

hudfamsix wrote: I have that in my queue!  The kids want to watch it with me, so I'll be interested to hear if it's kid-appropriate.

I didn't watch every minute of it.  I was doing dishes and refereeing kids, but what I did see was

nudity of course, nothing sexual in nature though- at least that I saw
in the beginning they showed a birth but I don't think it was graphic
they showed someone cleaning out the innards of an animal at some point, but my ds didn't seem to realize what they were doing, it didn't really show much
the worst thing for me was just the parts where they showed one sibling picking on the other because I think it gave my ds some new ideas of how to pick on his sister.

It wasn't the type of movie I would enjoy just sitting and watching start to finish, but it was nice to watch while doing other things.

We watched it a few months ago right after ds2 was born.  My dh was freaked out by all the naked boobies  .  I laughed at him.  My mil was a little disturbed by it too and kept trying to distract my kids or making embarrassed noises and I was thinking that my kids are still to young to even notice or care besides that it was completely appropriate just because in the culture that was shown that is what they did. 

It was interesting but I agree it was a bit slow. 

Nuttygirl wrote: We watched it a few months ago right after ds2 was born.  My dh was freaked out by all the naked boobies  .  I laughed at him.  My mil was a little disturbed by it too and kept trying to distract my kids or making embarrassed noises and I was thinking that my kids are still to young to even notice or care besides that it was completely appropriate just because in the culture that was shown that is what they did.  It was interesting but I agree it was a bit slow.

That is good to know about the boobies.    I don't think I will let Tyner watch it, because he seems to be in the overly-fascinated with the female body stage right now.  Sierra would probably be embarrassed by it, but it would be a little easier to talk her through it.  Besides, the girl says she wants to be a midwife someday (even though I'm not sure she even really knows what a MW does), so she better get used to seeing it, right?!

fancyoats wrote: we loved that movie.  i thought it was SO interesting to contrast our baby-raising methods across cultures.  the funniest juxtaposition was when the nigerian baby poops on the mom's leg and the mom just wipes it off with a corn cob or something and goes about her business.  the next scene shows the american family vacuuming the baby.    we are very obsessed with cleanliness over here, i guess

I liked the part where the baby in Mongolia was tied to the bed so he couldn't get in trouble, and yet he still managed to get the roll if toilet paper and make a mess.   

Saw this post yesterday and decided to rent it on the iPad last night via iTunes. I totally loved every second of it and laughed like crazy at the cultural differences. Thought it was extremely well done and tasteful despite the boobies DH thought some parts (that I let him watch) were cool too! I especially loved the Japanese baby getting so frustrated with her smart little toys, and the african baby never had those issues. I guess rocks aren't as complicated, lol! Super sweet film though, I'd recommend it to anyone!

zoobabes wrote: fancyoats wrote: we loved that movie.  i thought it was SO interesting to contrast our baby-raising methods across cultures.  the funniest juxtaposition was when the nigerian baby poops on the mom's leg and the mom just wipes it off with a corn cob or something and goes about her business.  the next scene shows the american family vacuuming the baby.    we are very obsessed with cleanliness over here, i guess Totally agree! We loved that part! We watched it a few months ago and I found it beautifully done and quite fascinating! The few parts the kds watched they enjoyed. They will probably watch it again soon!

My bro and sis in law just got back from a mission trip to India. He had to tell me all about how different parenting was right down to breastfeeding. No babies wear diapers. Pee and poop wherever. The children also play with animal poop like it's play doh. Seriously, bro has a pic of it. I bet hey have awesome immune systems!

Yeah this has been in my queue for a while now. I just haven't gotten around to it. My neighbor only made it through 4 minutes before she started crying. She says her hormones must still be wacky lol. It does look really neat though.

Hah! Funny Karen. I'm the last one to take away a rock from my kid. I don't care if they want to suck on some dirt ;) Everyone around me is constantly taking things from my kids that they don't think MY kids should have. I give that stuff right back and say "Mommy doesn't mind, here you go!" lol

moonangel12 wrote: It's funny, I would much rather my kids chew on a rock or eat dirt from our yard than a cart or high chair anywhere. I remember we were somewhere and DD was crawling on the ground outside... I was totally fine with that, but even touching the floor somewhere like WalMart makes my skin crawl. Blech!

Haha, this is totally how I feel too!

stegmanjessica wrote: Hah! Funny Karen. I'm the last one to take away a rock from my kid. I don't care if they want to suck on some dirt ;) Everyone around me is constantly taking things from my kids that they don't think MY kids should have. I give that stuff right back and say "Mommy doesn't mind, here you go!" lol

My inlaws are always telling my kids that things they are playing with are dirty and taking things away too.  I usually say "I don't care if they put that in their mouths.  I did growing up and I am one of the healthiest people I know."  Sometimes they will let it go and sometimes I give it back.  Other times I just tell my kids I don't care if they play with it but keep it away from them while the inlaws are in the room since it bothers them so much.  My kids put sticks and rocks in their mouths, eat food they drop on the ground, even on fast food restaurants floors (now this I think is kind of gross and I try to get them to leave stuff they drop on restaurants or movie theater floors but I don't freak out if they do put it in their mouth before I can stop them) and they are rarely sick and have never gotten sick from something"dirty" they played with outside.

We don't like poop and pee all over though

This sounds super cool! We don't have netflix so I think i will look into renting it a blockbuster or maybe the library.

I watched this last week. The Mongolian baby was cracking me up. The Namibian babies were funny, too. It's funny how the 2 babies with the least amount of "specialized" baby products developed at the same rate or even faster. We think all this special junk we have is better...not that some of us didn't know anyway, but obviously it's a big fat gimmick! It was cool to actually *see* that though.