This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
SAMAS: I liked this one better as
Her Heart Will Go On, although a rename to this wouldn't be out of the question.
Paul A: It's a subtrope. HHWGO is the general case of "heroine outlasts her love interest", this is the specific case where a baby is involved (which is, at a rough count, fewer than a quarter of the examples listed at
Her Heart Will Go On).
Sackett: What happened to
New Child Left Behind?