First Born

First Born is a 2007 American drama film directed by Isaac Webb. Plot Laura is an artistic dancer married to a wealthy businessman in New York City. She suspects she is pregnant after she gets sick after a dancing performance. She takes the subway home, and while she is on the subway she sees a young woman sitting across from her holding a baby. After a moment, she looks back and the young woman is gone but has left the baby behind. Alarmed, Laura jumps up and runs over to the baby but it is just a doll wrapped in a blanket and she hears an echo of a baby crying in the background. Laura gets a pregnancy test from the drug store, having taken the doll from the subway home with her. Later that night, she and her husband Steven share their good news: he has made a partnership at his firm and she is pregnant. After moving and settling down in the countryside, Laura becomes haunted by the cry of a baby continuously and it often affects her emotional health. One day while talking to her mother on the phone, she puts her dog in the basement but later it dies when it ingested rat poison that she had laid out for mice she had seen earlier. Upon hearing the baby's cries, she trips and her water breaks, forcing her to drive herself to the hospital. With complications to labor, Laura goes into an emergency C-section and gives birth to a girl. She visits the nursery area, but cannot help bring herself to be as happy as the new mothers inside. At home, Laura is having insomnia and struggles with pumping breast milk for her baby. Her mother assures her that postpartum depression is very common and tells her to make sure that Steve is helping her with their baby. However, she refuses to bother him as he has continued to work long hours. She goes to check the basement one day but the door is broken and she is locked down there all day until Steven arrives home to open the door for her. When Laura insists that their baby hates her, Steven hires an au pair named Mrs. Kasperian who has been a kind company to Laura.