Ya know I usually explain this to myself two ways:

1) That she's supposed to be really close to her due date, and they just took a little artistic license with her size (considering that she's carrying twins that belly looks really small to me)

2) That a month is not the same length in the GFFA as it is here.

But there is a third option....which is that these other two are really lame explanations!

You are right, her belly is way too small to be carrying two full sized babies (as you will find out LOL) but it is usually that way in the movies... they never show the mother-to-be as big a real women get... it's ummmmm, usually unflattering....

She is 6 months at the beginning, I read... and trying to hide it... Being 5 weeks premature is not always enough to keep someone in ICU... I think it has more to do with weight and respiration... maybe pademeskywalker77 will answer this one, she would know!

maybe pademeskywalker77 will answer this one, she would know!



I am actually more of an "expert" on children past the first month or so of life. However, what I do know is that degree of prematurity does have a role in admission to a NICU, but weight, breathing, and a few other things do play a part as well. In general, the more babies you carry, the less the gestational period will be...I can't remember how many weeks is taken off per baby, but the general rule is they are early.

I have always been bothered by how big and relatively healthy the twins were at birth...it just is not "right." But, it is cinema, and they really cannot, rather should not, show things the way they really are.

Her belly sure looks small to be so far advanced in her pregancy and for twins forget it. But in real life every woman's pregnancy is different. For my first child I had the biggest belly of the 4 bellies I had, yet he was the smallest when born.

In the movie you must remember that they're only trying to stress the point that she was pregnant and had twins and GL said "nevermind" to real life.

But AS1 #2 reason sounds good to me.

She does have a small belly, but so did my mom when she had me, and I was a large baby. I have doubts that they were really completely in good health, maybe they had some off-screen problems.

[iI have always been bothered by how big and relatively healthy the twins were at birth...it just is not "right." But, it is cinema, and they really cannot, rather should not, show things the way they really are.]

The only way Luke and Leia could be seen as premature babies was for them to be CGI characters. Were any of you ready for that?

In order to convince ME that she was pregnant, Padme needed about 35 more pounds & some serious mood swings...haha!

I have always been bothered by how big and relatively healthy the twins were at birth...it just is not "right." But, it is cinema, and they really cannot, rather should not, show things the way they really are.
I hear ya, PS77. Most movies do it that way.

Nobody wants to see what a real pregnant woman looks like on camera- especially when carrying more than one baby. As for the babies themselves, no one wants to see what a real prmature baby looks like.
Cinema tends to make things 'better' for those of us who are viewing the movie or television show. When it comes to that kind of stuff, they want to show what people want to see, not what is reality.
Nice blog question!!!

vadersgirl33

i also thought about this after seeing ROTS so many times, the only time you actually see a "big" belly on padme, is after she died, in naboo,but this is what i think: since it's a star wars movie and all their knowledge and technology is advanced from our world, i think that the polis massa doctors might have used something to "speed' up luke and leia's development, since padme's belly is relatively small at first, and while she's on the table, they might have done that, since looking back to AOTC, Jango's clones were given some kind of rapid growth stimulant to also speed up their development. that might 've been possible. i mean, it is star wars, so this is just an opnion i thought of. MTFBWY.

Cheers for your cooments.
One of my mates at works is 5 months pregnant with twins and she has a big bump. It was one of the things that bothered me about it.
For the last comment I think padme has quite a big bump when she's in her nightdress (see pic at top), but, other than when she is dead, her bump is unnaturally tiny for reality but i guess for SW it's normal. Lol.

I love what jediprincess77 said. They could send her to kill Sidious if she kept having mood swings, I know nothing can stop us women when we hav our mood swings, though i have not expierienced a pregnancy yet but I'm one of the worst for PMT. She does cry alot maybe that's her hormones. Actually i'd cry alot if i saw hayden with creepy yellow eyes. Sob!

We have been wondering the same thing for a long time now.
We have heard Padme was 5 months pregnant in ROTS and ROTS takesplace in a matter of 9 days, but that makes no sense. Well, maybe Anakin was gone for 5 months and she did not know that she was pregnant for a little while before that, but it is still not long enough for having 2 healthy babies.