'''Basic Trope''': A pregnancy that begins and ends very quickly.
* '''Straight''': Alice sleeps with Bob, and three months later, she gives birth.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice's baby is born one week after she sleeps with Bob.
** Alice is pregnant for a total of two minutes.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice's pregnancy lasts five to seven months.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice is not human, and her species (whatever it may be) has a fast pregnancy.
** Alice's baby is born prematurely.
** Alice is carrying multiple babies simultaneously, [[TruthInTelevision a situation that often lends itself to pregnancies that are over in less than nine months.]]
* '''Inverted''': Alice is [[LongestPregnancyEver pregnant for more than a year.]]
* '''Subverted''':
** Alice's pregnancy takes the usual nine months in the series.
** Alice simply [[LatePregnancyRealization didn't notice her pregnancy until her third trimester]], due to [[BrawnHilda her portliness]].
* '''Double Subverted''': Nine months of "storyline time", that is. The episodes were filmed according to filming time, or made use of a flash forward.
* '''Parodied''': Alice is visibly and heavily pregnant as soon as she's done having sex with Bob, and gives birth the morning after.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Some pregnancies go rapidly, others slowly, and others at a realistic speed.
* '''Averted''':
** Alice's pregnancy lasts for a normal amount of time.
** Alice does not become pregnant in-series.
* '''Enforced''':
** "We need to portray a pregnancy without taking forever to film it."
** "The actress that plays Alice is pregnant, and [[HideYourPregnancy we can't hide it]] at this point; let's make it part of the storyline."
* '''Lampshaded''':
** "Didn't you just take a pregnancy test yesterday?"
** [[Series/WandaVision "The baby is approximately nine months early!"]]
* '''Invoked''': Alice, frustrated with the uncomfortable aspects of pregnancy, seeks the help of a witch, who gives her a potion that will speed up her pregnancy.
* '''Exploited''': [[YourDaysAreNumbered Emperor Evulz]], needing a suitable heir before he dies, specifically impregnates Alice so he can influence his child.
* '''Defied''': Alice has second thoughts about taking the potion, fearing that it could hurt the baby (or her), and decides just to suck it up and deal with her discomfort.
* '''Discussed''': "It seems like just yesterday, Alice was just starting to show."
* '''Conversed''': "That was just yesterday!"
* '''Implied''':
** None of the characters ages appreciably during Alice's pregnancy.
** When other mothers ask how Alice handled her pregnancy, she actually seems confused before saying, "I regularly forget I was ever pregnant."
* '''Deconstructed''': It destroys the audience's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief; most people know that a pregnancy does not normally go that quickly. (If it does, chances are it's due to an abortion or miscarriage.)
* '''Reconstructed''': The timeline makes it clear that it's a realistic amount of time.
* '''Played for Laughs''': GilliganCut
* '''Played for Drama''':
** The baby's early arrival causes problems and/or it doesn't survive.
** The baby in question is a FetusTerrible that [[SelfMadeOrphan kills its own mother]] mere instants after being born.
%%* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ???
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[[ExpressDelivery You had the baby already? Didn't you just tell me about two weeks ago?]]
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