Two films open this weekend about women who are trying to conceive. The first, “Baby Mama,” is probably the one you’ve heard most about. The ads are everywhere and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are all over the place promoting it. The other is “And Then She Found Me” starring and directed by Helen Hunt -- a much smaller project. Both Fey and Hunt play women who are in their late thirties, struggling to get pregnant.

We are supposed to believe Fey’s character is a woman who has put her career first and is now being punished by having a defective uterus. She contemplates adoption but as she is single, she finds this is not a viable option. So she hires a surrogate to carry her inseminated eggs for her. That’s Amy Poehler’s character, a slobby, unsophisticated slacker. The two women are thrust together and the comedy ensues.

Hunt is a teacher who has just been left by her husband. She is loath to adopt, as she herself was adopted and has mixed feelings about it.

While neither film is hilarious -- “Baby Mama” is the more overtly funny. It’s also much more like an extended sitcom. Both films have exactly the same plot twist, but one plays out to a tragic conclusion. I didn’t love “And Then She Found Me,” it was a weird blend of over-the-top comedy and depressing drama, but it did feel much more real. “Baby Mama” reminded me of 1970’s “The Babymaker” starring a very young and beautiful Barbara Hershey. She plays a Dylan-loving, free spirit who is hired by an uptight couple to bear their child. It may be a bit dated, but that’s the film about baby-making I would recommend this week!