History Main / ImperiledInPregnancy

* In an accidental case, [[https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2553378&page=1 Rose Bard]], a fishing boat technician, was horribly injured in a freak accident (a piece of machinery activated while she was cleaning it) just hours after learning she was pregnant. Bard ended up losing both of her legs, but she survived, and her baby, a boy she named Aries, was born healthy seven months later.

* In an accidental case, [[https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2553378&page=1 Rose Bard]], a fishing boat technician, was horribly injured in a freak accident (a piece of machinery activated while she was cleaning it) just hours after learning she was pregnant. Bard ended up losing both of her legs, but she and her unborn child survived, with the latter miraculously having no ill effects from his mother's ordeal.

** Claire Littleton was eight months pregnant during the plane crash that kicks off the series. She briefly experiences contractions during the initial chaos but they appear to have been triggered by shock as they go away once things calm down. She's then briefly kidnapped by The Others who hold her captive for a few days. She escapes and makes it back to her fellow survivors in time to give birth to her son.

* In an accidental case, [[Rose Bard https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2553378&page=1]], a fishing boat technician, was horribly injured in a freak accident (a piece of machinery activated while she was cleaning it) just hours after learning she was pregnant. Bard ended up losing both of her legs, but she and her unborn child survived, with the latter miraculously having no ill effects from his mother's ordeal.

* In an accidental case, [[Rose Bard https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2553378&page=1]], a fishing boat technician, was horribly injured in a freak work accident just hours after learning she was pregnant. Bard ended up losing both of her legs, but she and her unborn child survived, with the latter miraculously having no ill effects from his mother's ordeal.

* In ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' X-Mas Special, a gangster's pregnant wife is the target of hitmen sent by a rival gangster out to wipe out her husband's entire family. The Punisher saves the pregnant target from the killers and helps her deliver the baby...at which point he [[WouldHitAGirl executes her himself]] for her own crimes, now that the innocent child is out of danger.

* The 2004 Creator/WarrenEllis one-shot ''Angel Stomp Future'' begins with a pregnant woman stepping in front of an oncoming train, just to emphasize what a BadFuture this CrapsackWorld is; her suicide does not figure into the rest of the story and is not even noticed by any other characters.

* ''Film/{{Contagion}}'': Lorraine is pregnant when she contracts the virus. [[spoiler:She does not survive.]]

* ''Literature/FireAndBlood'': While heavily pregnant with her first child, Queen Alysanne Targaryen makes a stop on her royal progress at a bathhouse in Maidenpool, hoping the supposed healing properties of the water will help with her pregnancy. There, three Septas tried to assassinate the queen, fearing the holy waters would be polluted by Alysanne's unborn child of [[BrotherSisterIncest incest]]. Alysanne's maids threw themselves at the attackers, buying time for the Kingsguard to come to the rescue, but as a result, Alysanne's son was born prematurely and died three days later, and she would forever blame his death on the septas who had tried to murder her.

* In the first ''Film/{{Warlock}}'' movie, the Warlock threatens to kill a priest's pregnant wife along with the child she's carrying to get the information he wants. Presumably subverted because the priest ultimately caves in to the Warlock's demands, although we don't get to see if he did leave them unharmed.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/TheWizardofOz I'll get you, my pretty, and your little spawn, too!]]]]

* In ''Film/GreatWhite'', Kaz tells Charlie that she is pregnant on the beach at Hell's Reef. It is immediately after this that the seaplane is sunk and the group finds itself trapped in a life raft being circled by a ThreateningShark. Needless to say, all of Charlie's protective instincts kick into overdrive.
* ''Film/TheTheatreBizarre'': In "Vision Stains", The Writer attacks a pregnant woman and draws fluid from her womb [[PlayingwithSyringes with a syringe]] in an attempt to find out what an unborn child sees.
* In ''Film/FightingMad1976'', Carolee is pregnant when goons beat her and her husband up, kidnap them, and murder them.

* There's also the psychos who have attacked pregnant women in order to steal their babies and pass them off as their own.

* Happens to Aeryn in ''Series/Farscape'' as she is tortured and threatened with both her death and the child's. Contrary to the usual trope her pregnancy is not visible at the time.

[[caption-width-right:350:I'll get you, my pretty, and your little spawn, too!]]

A SuperTrope to PregnantHostage. Compare TraumaticCSection and WombHorror. May involve a MaternityCrisis if the child chooses that exact moment to come into the world, or alternatively a ConvenientMiscarriage, ForcedMiscarriage, or TragicStillbirth if child is lost as a result. Can also result in BornFromADeadWoman or DeathByChildbirth if the ''mother'' dies as a result, but the child survives. Often the intersection of WouldHurtAChild and WouldHitAGirl. Overlaps with PregnantBadass if the pregnant woman is an ActionGirl who extracts herself from the peril.

* ''Literature/TheCrocodileGod'' has one of the rare times that the peril ''actually'' happens. When the Tagalog sea-god Haik meets his mortal wife Mirasol's Spanish employer in the colonial Philippines, their attempt to pass Haik off as another mortal goes wrong due to [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome his extremely NON-Catholic tattoos,]] and the Spaniard shoots Mirasol in the stomach--so the enraged Haik [[HulkOut hulks out]] into a [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile massive crocodile]] and ''[[PrimalFear eats him]].'' While Haik heals Mirasol, [[TragicStillbirth their daughter is stillborn.]] Mirasol eventually reincarnates into a modern-day woman, but Haik remains traumatized for centuries--not only was this a personal loss of a child, the Spaniard committed ''{{Deicide}}'' and so clinched the DeathOfTheOldGods.