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* AdoptionInducedPregnancy: Finding out you're pregnant after adopting a baby.
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* FunnyConceptionStory: A memorable way a baby was conceived.
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* ObsceneOBGYN: When the OB-GYN takes advantage of their patients.
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* WeddingEnhancedFertility: A couple conceives very soon before or after their wedding.
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* SurpriseMultipleBirth: A woman gives birth to more babies than she and/or her husband were expecting.
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* PregnantReptile: A non-mammal bears live young.
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* IWantGrandkids: One or two people want their adult daughter to get pregnant so they will be grandparents.

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* IWantGrandkids: One or two people want their adult daughter or daughter-in-law to get pregnant so they will be grandparents.
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* BabiesEverAfter: The work ends with the main couple being pregnant or giving birth.

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* BabiesEverAfter: The work ends with the main couple being at least on the road to becoming parents (often by showing the woman becoming pregnant or giving birth.birth).
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Not necessarily for profit.


* BabyFactory: Women are used to make babies for profit.

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* BabyFactory: Women are used to make babies for profit.treated as little more than glorified breeding machines.
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* BackToTheWomb: A character is returned to the womb, usually by some form of regression or time travel, often while retaining their adult mind.
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* LukeIMightBeYourFather: It's not certain who a child's biological father is because the mother had sex with more than one man at the time she was impregnated.

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* TheBabyTrap: Somebody tries to deliberately get pregnant without her partner's permission so that they (according to her at least) will have to stay together.

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* TheBabyTrap: Somebody tries to deliberately get pregnant without her partner's permission so that they (according to her at least) will have to stay together. Alternatively, a man might try to get a woman pregnant without her consent to force her to stay.



* ButICantBePregnant: Someone's pregnant but they thought she or her partner was infertile or they [[InterspeciesRomance were a different species]] or she was too old to have kids or otherwise it seems impossible for her to be pregnant.

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* ButICantBePregnant: Someone's pregnant but they thought she or her partner was infertile or infertile, they [[InterspeciesRomance were a different species]] or species]], she was too old to have kids or otherwise it seems impossible for her to be pregnant.



* DeliverUsFromEvil: A female villain accidentally gets pregnant.

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* DeliverUsFromEvil: A female villain accidentally gets pregnant.pregnant and undergoes a HeelFaceTurn.



** PillowPregnancy: A woman stuffs a pillow up her shirt so that people will think she's pregnant.



* HandOnWomb: A woman rubs her belly and it serves as the way the audience finds out she's pregnant.

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* HandOnWomb: A woman rubs or places her hand on her belly and it serves as the way the audience finds out she's pregnant.



* HonorableMarriageProposal: A woman getting pregnant (for real or [[ParodiedTrope mistakenly]]) results in the father offering to marry her.

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* HonorableMarriageProposal: A woman getting pregnant (for real or [[ParodiedTrope mistakenly]]) results in the father (or another man) offering to marry her.



* LawOfInverseFertility: A character who wants to be pregnant struggles to conceive, while a character who doesn't want to be pregnant conceives easily.
* LawOfInversePaternity: If the audience wants someone to be the father of a baby or fetus, he's likely not, and vice versa.



* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: A man doesn't know that he's the dad of his partner's baby.

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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: A man doesn't know for certain that he's the dad of his partner's baby.



* MysticalPregnancy: A woman gets pregnant by spiritual means, like by magic or from God's essence.

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* MysticalPregnancy: A woman gets pregnant by spiritual means, like by magic or from God's essence.essence, or there is something else supernatural about the pregnancy.



* PillowPregnancy: A woman stuffs a pillow up her shirt so that people will think she's pregnant.



** LawOfInversePaternity: If the audience wants someone to be the father of a baby or fetus, he's likely not, and vice versa.
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* WrittenInInfirmity: The actor is injured or sick, the writers have to compensate. This is Trivia and doesn't necessarily involve pregnancy.

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* WrittenInInfirmity: The actor is injured or sick, the writers have to compensate. This is Trivia and doesn't necessarily involve pregnancy.compensate; this sometimes includes pregnant actresses.
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* MysticalPregnancy: A woman gets pregnant by spiritual means, like by magic or from God's essence.

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* IWantGrandkids: One or two people want their adult daughter to get pregnant so they will be grandparents.



* IWantGrandkids: One or two people want their adult daughter to get pregnant so they will be grandparents.
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: No women are seen or mentioned to menstruate.

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* ExtraParentConception: More than two people are involved in the conception of a baby.



* FantasyContraception: Made-up birth control.



* FetusTerrible: An evil fetus.



* HomosexualReproduction: Somebody is somehow conceived from two people of the same sex.



* ImperiledInPregnancy: A pregnant woman [[DamselInDistress in danger]].



* ImperiledInPregnancy: A pregnant woman [[DamselInDistress in danger]].



* LawOfInverseFertility: If someone doesn't want to become pregnant, she likely will, but if she does, she likely won't.



* MagicalAbortion: A fetus is terminated through magic.



* MisterSeahorse (an exception to AlwaysFemale): A man gets pregnant.



* MysticalPregnancy: Someone is conceived via magic, or something magical happens to a fetus.



* PregnantReptile: A non-mammal bears live young.



* PrenatalPossessions: An unborn baby somehow has material objects in the womb or egg with it.



* UterineReplicator: The baby is grown inside a machine instead of a woman.

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* BabiesEverAfter: The work ends with the main couple being pregnant or giving birth.



* BabiesEverAfter: The work ends with the main couple being pregnant or giving birth.

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* AllLesbiansWantKids: A lesbian couple want kids, and for some reason, they only want biological kids.

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* AllLesbiansWantKids: A lesbian couple want kids, and for some reason, they only want wants biological kids.



* HomosexualReproduction: Somebody is somehow conceived from two people of the same gender.

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* HomosexualReproduction: Somebody is somehow conceived from two people of the same gender.sex.


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* MaternalImpression: Non-genetic traits imparted to a child by circumstances during conception or pregnancy.
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* BornFromADeadWoman: A child is born after the death of the mother.
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* LatePregnancyRealization: A woman isn't aware she's pregnant until just before the baby is due.

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* LatePregnancyRealization: A woman isn't aware doesn't realize that she's pregnant until just before the baby is due.she's either late in her pregnancy or has already gone into labor/given birth.



* SurprisePregnancy: A woman doesn't realize she's pregnant until the baby is actually born.

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* SurprisePregnancy: A woman doesn't realize she's pregnant until the baby is actually born.pregnant.
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* LatePregnancyRealization: A woman isn't aware she's pregnant until just before the baby is due.
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* ContraceptionDeception: woman gets impregnated after she or the person who got her pregnant lied about using birth control.

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* ContraceptionDeception: woman gets impregnated after she Pregnancy is caused or the person who got her pregnant prevented because someone lied to their partner about using birth control.control or their ability to conceive.
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* ContraceptionDeception: woman gets impregnated after she or the person who got her pregnant lied about using birth control.

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