I was just watching Call the Midwife, and seeing so many pregnant women on screen- not just the Couples of the Week but even random background characters- pregnant has made me realize how rarely I see pregnant women depicted in media and art- certainly in modern media (it's almost unheard of to see someone onscreen who is pregnant and is not a main character with a plot relevant pregnancy) but even in older works of art. I can think of a bunch of random reasons that this could be- pregnancies being more hidden with garments and shapewear at various points, pregnant women's "confinements," and of course in the modern era fewer people getting pregnant in general- but I was wondering whether there were points when pregnant women were more commonly represented in various forms of visual media? Or, I guess with the exception of fertility idols and such, have pregnant women always been underrepresented in media images?