Infertility Safe Media Database
A safe space for your brain
Added this week, to help guide your festive entertainment:
| Category | Added |
| Movies | Christmas films!
All safe: Avoid – films feature pregnancy/babies prominently in the closing scene(s): |
Please submit! Either here or by email to isfmdatabase@gmail.com. Thanks, friends.
Added in November:
| Category | Added |
| Podcasts | New category! IVFML and Big Fat Negative added under infertility.
I Hate It But I Love It, My Dad Wrote A Porno, The Complete Guide to Everything, and The Dollop added to safe podcasts. |
| TV Shows | New Amsterdam added – DOR/infertility storyline, and a high-risk pregnancy.
A Million Little Things has a sensitive pregnancy storyline in S1. Million Dollar Listing NYC and Shahs of Sunset also added for infertility/surrogacy triggers. |
| Movies | Bird Box added (not yet released, but going by the book plot). Up! added for the miscarriage in the opening sequence. |
| Video Games | Nothing new added. |
| Books | Bird Box added – 2 pregnant characters feature, and there is a disturbing birth scene. |
| Satire | Nothing new added. |
| Good IF Portrayals | Nothing new added. |
| Avoid list | Nothing new added. |
| Stand-up | Nothing new added. |
Please submit! Either here or by email to isfmdatabase@gmail.com. Thanks, friends.
Added in October:
| Category | Added |
| TV Shows | The Romanoffs has a surprise pregnancy in its first episode. There is an IVF storyline in season 3 of This Is Us. |
| Movies | A Star Is Born is safe. |
| Video Games | Nothing new added. |
| Books | The Girl on the Train – movie was on the list, but the book wasn’t (my bad!). |
| Satire | Nothing new added. |
| Good IF Portrayals | Nothing new added. |
| Avoid list | Nothing new added. |
| Stand-up | Nothing new added. |
Please submit! Either here or by email to isfmdatabase@gmail.com. Thanks, friends.
Added in July:
| Category | Added |
| TV Shows | Nothing new added. |
| Movies | Mamma Mia is very obviously about a pregnancy, but also has some quite emotional moments around having a baby, which may make you uncomfortable/cause distress.
Tag has an insensitively-written miscarriage subplot. |
| Video Games | Orwell is compelling fun and completely safe. |
| Books | Nothing new added. |
| Satire | Nothing new added. |
| Good IF Portrayals | Nothing new added. |
| Avoid list | Nothing new added. |
| Stand-up | Nothing new added. |
Please submit! Either here or by email to isfmdatabase@gmail.com. Thanks, friends.
Added in May:
| Category | Added |
| TV Shows | Killing Eve is safe (so far). |
| Movies | Deadpool 2 has a conversation about starting a family, otherwise safe. |
| Video Games | Far Cry 5 has one side mission with a pregnant woman/you getting her to her midwife. Otherwise completely safe. |
| Books | Nothing new added. |
| Satire | Nothing new added. |
| Good IF Portrayals | Nothing new added. |
| Avoid list | Nothing new added. |
| Stand-up | John Mulaney Kid Gorgeous – only one mention of not knowing if they want to have kids.
Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife – a lot of jokes about motherhood and how hard it is (which may be difficult to hear). |
Added in April:
| Category | Added |
| TV Shows | Catastrophe – a great show but lots of babies shown/an accidental pregnancy between two strangers is the entire premise.
Specific episode triggers also added for Chicago Med, The Good Doctor, and The Resident. The Roseanne reboot has a surrogacy storyline. Splitting Up Together, while excellent, has a secondary character pursuing sperm donation/AI. |
| Movies | A Quiet Place – so worth seeing (LOVED it), but the lead actress is pregnant and gives birth/a newborn is shown. |
| Video Games | Oxenfree and Night in the Woods are both excellent and trigger-free. |
| Books | No new additions. |
| Satire | No new additions. |
| Good IF Portrayals | No new additions. |
| Avoid list | No new additions. |
| Stand-up | No new additions. |
Added in March:
| Category | Added |
| TV Shows | Frasier – S11 miracle baby despite MFI.
The new TV show Living Biblically has a pregnant lead. |
| Movies | Game Night – apparently this new film’s main characters are struggling to conceive because of “stress”, and manage it at the end when the film plot has resolved.
iZombie – safe apart from one line regarding the lead character’s infertility (S2) – but hey, she is dead after all. You’ve Got Mail – one throwaway line about “having eggs harvested”. The Secret Life of Pets – safe, as is Moana. By the Sea – the couple are miserable and it is revealed that she is unable to have children and has had miscarriages. The main female lead tries to break up a happy couple due to pregnancy. I rewatched The Crazies recently and it’s still great, but yes, the lead is preggers. |
| Video Games | That Dragon Cancer – video game about the death of a baby [also added to avoid]. |
| Books | Little Women added |
| Satire | Nothing new added |
| Good IF Portrayals | Nothing new added |
| Stand-up | Nothing new added |
As always, submissions can be made here, or by emailing isfmdatabase@gmail.com.
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