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* ''Film/{{Clock}}'': The very pregnant Shauna is tired of hearing her friend Ella go on about how a desire for babies is not natural for her. She points out that all Ella Ella has to do is spread her legs to get pregnant from her husband, while Shauna and her wife Fi had to struggle to make her pregnancy happen.

** There is also her ex-girlfriend Harriet who becomes pregnant through sperm donation while single, and later Ginger (and later Lois, who had earlier said that she has the maternal instincts of a doorknob) dates Jasmine who has a transgender son. Lois' quote is straight from the author herself in The Indelible Alison Bechdel, and she's gone on record as saying this is exactly why Toni is the hardest to write for.

* In the ''ComicBook/XMen'' books, Mystique and Destiny were lovers for more than half a century, but during periods when they were for various reasons separated, both had children fathered by transient male partners. Mystique abandons her sons Kurt Wagner (aka Nightcrawler) and Graydon Creed with a degree of callousness, the former to save her own life from a lynch mob, the latter because [[FantasticRacism at puberty he disappointingly turns out to be not a mutant]]. Mystique and Destiny eventually become a happy nuclear family with their adopted daughter Rogue (who however subverts the trope because she is no longer a baby when Raven and Irene adopt her).

* Played with in a back-up strip in the ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' comic, where a horrific monster that wipes out the main cast turns out to be three kids, who turn out to be AllJustADream of lesbian police officer Stephanopoulos. Upon waking, she dumps the adoption book she fell asleep reading in the bin.

* In another similarly CastFullOfGay comic strip ''ComicStrip/ChelseaBoys'' a lesbian couple asks Nathan to donate sperm but despite him being gay they for some reason want to conceive "naturally" with actual sex, which is achieved with viagra, a gay porn playing, a Brad Pitt mask and the other partner pegging him.

* The whole plot of ''Fanfic/WithYou'' is centered on a happily married Elsa and Anna having a baby.

* ''Fanfic/BeautifulMonster'': Averted in Betty and Harriet's case, especially since Betty has enough issues as is stemming from her terrible childhood and she decides to get an abortion after she's raped during her evening jog.

* Series/AquiNoHayQuienViva: Bea has a kid after being inseminated with Mauri's (a gay man) sperm.
* Played with in ''Series/OneBigHappy''. Lizzy plays it straight. Her ex Erica is surprised at first but warms up to it in an attempt to get Lizzy to come back to her. Kate doesn't mind the kid part, but still can't date Lizzy because she's her nurse and that'd violate protocol.
* [[ButchLesbian Fiona "Tosh" Mackintosh]] in ''Series/{{EastEnders}}'' was desperate for a baby. Her partner Tina wasn't quite so eager, leading Tosh to [[DomesticAbuse violently take it out on her.]]


* In ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'', Margot and her bi girlfriend Alana steal sperm from Margot's brother so Alana can become pregnant and they can raise the child together as the (male) heir to Margot's family business. Earlier in the show, lesbian Margot has sex with a man for the same purpose (it doesn't work out).

** Pretty much every other lesbian who appears on ''Rick & Steve'' has or is trying to conceive a baby. In one early episode, Kirstin pretends to be a gay man so she can hook up with a gay guy through the internet and steal his sperm. Her hookup turns out to be... another lesbian also seeking sperm. And on the gay cruise episode, all the lesbians onboard are there for the lamaze classes, while all the guys are there to party and hook up. This shouldn't be too surprising, though, since ''Rick and Steve'' is built around exaggerating ridiculous gay stereotypes.

* The film ''Film/ICantThinkStraight'' ends with Leyla informing Tala that they must have children. She seems to want this primarily as a means of compromising with her family, who are not 100% happy with her being gay. The real women this is based on had two sons.
* The mockumentary ''Film/TheBabyFormula'' about two lesbians who actually get pregnant through stem cell research. Fun fact: The movie was filmed during both actresses' actual pregnancies.
* The villains of ''Film/PinkFlamingos'' kidnap women, impregnate them, and sell the babies to lesbians.
* ''Film/Summerland2020'': Vera left Alice over her desire to have children, marrying a man so she could become a mother. Alice was left alone and unhappy after that. [[spoiler:However, they get back together. Alice then becomes a second mother for Vera's son Frank.]]
* ''Film/EntreNous2021'': Elodie is resistant to the idea of having a baby at first when her stepfather Roity encourages her to, though she comes around on the idea. She and her fiancée Laetitia agree they'd like one, but Elodie has a heart condition which makes it very dangerous. Laetitia says she can have the baby, rejecting the idea of adoption as she really wants to experience being pregnant. She later gets pregnant due to a tryst with Simon (she's bisexual), and while they're getting over Laetitia's cheating they decide on keeping it. [[spoiler:Tragically, she later loses the baby due to being beaten by Simon after he's coerced Laetitia into being with him.]]

* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'':
** Somewhere offscreen in the ''Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy'', Herald Vanyel fathered a child on one of a lesbian couple who were friends of his, though as an exceedingly busy person without particular interest in fatherhood he didn't keep much contact with little Arven. Notably, despite being gay Vanyel [[ChosenConceptionPartner performs this service]] for three sets of friends: two women, two men (with the help of a willing female surrogate), and for the mistress of a king who couldn't afford to be seen as infertile.
** In ''Vows and Honor'' (set hundreds of years later) Tarma and Kethry are good friends with another lesbian couple who both went and got pregnant at the same time and gave birth at just about the same time too.
* ''Literature/ChangeRoom'': Shar's ex-girlfriend Giselle really wanted kids, while Shar had no desire for them. Giselle thought she'd simply come around and be happy having them together even so. Since this wasn't the case, Shar ended their relationship.

* ''If These Walls Could Talk 2''. In the segment ''2000'', Fran (Sharon Stone) and Kal (Ellen [=DeGeneres=]) decide to have a baby together. A turkey baster is involved.
* Two examples that exist on opposite ends of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism when it comes to the custody aspect are ''What Makes a Family'' and ''Two Mothers for Zachary'' respectively, the latter being based on a real-life case.

* Played with in ''Series/TheWire'': while her partner Cheryl avidly wanted a baby, Kima was initially unenthusiastic, and the baby is one of the many things that ends up coming between the two. The idea of being a mother eventually grows on her, and she ends up getting more involved in their son's life in season five.
* In an episode of ''Series/WithoutATrace'', an unknowing pair of women assumed to be a lesbian couple finally receiving a baby to adopt have said baby taken away from them as it was the missing person of that episode - [[spoiler:they didn't kidnap it, they were just caught up in a conspiracy.]]
* Unsurprisingly in a show with a CastFullOfGay, ''Series/TheLWord'' covered this topic, but with only one of the many couples - Tina and Bette. When Helena is introduced, she bonds with Tina over motherhood, but her children are PutOnABus after season two.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** This has been [[AvertedTrope averted]] with Willow, despite having been in two long-term relationships.
** It's brought up again in Season 8 when a run-in with [[spoiler:Willow's ex-boyfriend Oz]] shows that he now has a child. Willow is upset; [[spoiler:Oz]] assumes it's because of this trope and tells her there are ways for her to have a child. She reveals that her anger has nothing to do with him having a child but rather that he's allowed to have a normal future, while she can't when she is one of the top people in the Slayer organization and a sorceress supreme with much [[SuperpoweredEvilSide inner-darkness]].
* Averted in ''Series/{{Friends}}'', as Susan fell in love with Carol independently of her getting pregnant by her then-husband, Ross.
* The HBO series ''Series/BoredToDeath'' features a storyline about a lesbian couple who hit up one of the male main characters for sperm in a coffee shop. [[Creator/SuzyEddieIzzard Like you do.]] When he obliges, they turn around and sell his sperm on the black market to all the other lesbians in the neighborhood, all of whom are also desperate to reproduce.
* This seems to be the catalyst for the breakup between Caitlin and Alicia on the cancelled ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' clone ''Cashmere Mafia''.
* ''Series/FlashForward2009''
** Played with when Janice, a lesbian, quite bluntly says she does ''not'' want kids, but is pregnant in her vision of the future.
** Played straight later, however, when [[spoiler: after getting shot, she becomes obsessed with getting pregnant to the point of sleeping with her male best friend Dimitri to conceive the baby on time (there was a sort of deadline... yeah, it's a bit confusing). Moreover, said best friend is actually in a committed relationship... that he doesn't seem to remember when offering to impregnate Janice.]]
* ''Series/PuppetsWhoKill'' had a woman who seduced Buttons and brought him back to her apartment for what he assumed to be sex. Instead, she and her girlfriend hooked his crotch up to a vacuum-like device they had built to suck out his sperm. Naturally this process was purposely very painful in order to play up the [[DoesNotLikeMen other stereotype]] about lesbians.
* The only recurring lesbian couple in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' are an example of this trope. But on the other hand, ''everyone'' wants kids on this show... except Robin, of course (and [[spoiler:she can't have any anyway]]).
* Referenced in ''Series/{{QI}}'' episode "Holidays", when Rob Brydon jokes that "a family runaround with an excellent safety record" would be a much better slang word for lesbian than "dyke."[[note]]Despite having Britain's two most prominent lesbian comics (Sandi Toksvig -- the female Creator/StephenFry -- and Sue Perkins) as regulars in recent series, this stereotype -- to the series' credit! -- is not referenced when they've shown up.[[/note]]
* In ''Series/NewGirl'', the recurring lesbian couple (and the only lesbians on the show) are the only ones to get pregnant, though their pregnancy does alert the rest of the female cast to their biological clock as well.
* Addressed in a rather unusual way in the otherwise LGBT shot ''Series/{{Metrosexuality}}''. [[LipstickLesbian Cindy]], Max's sister who's a lesbian, is framed as your usual baby-crazed lesbian whereas her girlfriend Doris, while happy with the kids, never really intended to have kids. When Cindy complains that now their life is quite boring, Doris points out that Cindy was the one to want kids, not her, partially because she feared that it would happen.

* A recurring subplot throughout ''Series/ChicagoFire'''s first season is paramedic Leslie Shay's quest for a child of her own. At one point, unable to afford artificial insemination, she's desperate enough to ask her best friend Kelly Severide to impregnate her the natural way.

* Averted in ''Series/Supergirl2015'' with Maggie, who really doesn't see herself as a mother, possibly because her own childhood was crappy (her family kicked her out after finding out about her sexual orientation). [[spoiler:This ends up driving a wedge between her and Alex, as Alex desperately wants kids and knows that Maggie will never change her mind. They do end up parting ways as AmicableExes]].

* ''Series/Liar2017'': Vanessa is a lesbian who's expecting a baby with her wife. The pair are the only lesbians shown.

* ''Series/TheBisexual'': Leila and Sadie had been looking into having children during their relationship (but with some reluctance on Leila's part, before they broke up, while she turns out to also be bisexual). Afterward though it's shown that Sadie is still looking into sperm donors.

* ''Series/AvocadoToast'': Rosie, the main lesbian character, is having a baby and she's heavily pregnant when the series starts. She's had her baby, a boy, in Season 2.

* ''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'': Megan and her wife Kate have been trying for a child for a long time. [[spoiler: She takes the news tha Advance have spiked the water supply with anti-fertility drugs in an attempt at population control ''spectacularly'' poorly.]]

* Alluded to in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''. Nanase mentions to her girlfriend Ellen that she thinks she'd like to have a couple of kids someday. Ellen then points out that they have access to GenderBender technology that was ''specifically designed'' for situations like this (albeit by an alien species with a very different view of gender). Nanase is both comforted and creeped out by the thought, particularly since in order to use said technology, they'd have to go through her ChivalrousPervert cousin, Tedd.
* Most of the women in Part 1 of ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'' are bisexual, but it's the three lesbians that either express a desire for kids (Darcy) or already had one by the time the comic started (Adelie and Bella). [[spoiler:By the time of Part 2, most of the other women are also shown to be pregnant, but it's unclear if they actively wanted kids or if it was just a consequence of the fact that EverybodyHasLotsOfSex.]]

** The token lesbians decide to have a baby; naturally they select their friend, gay man Brian, to be the biological father, which seems a bit less insane once you think about that part of the plot was based on the [[Series/QueerAsFolk British version]], where Brian's counterpart is more of a nymphomaniac ManChild than {{Jerkass}} Brian.

* The HBO series ''Bored to Death'' features a storyline about a lesbian couple who hit up one of the male main characters for sperm in a coffee shop. [[Creator/SuzyEddieIzzard Like you do.]] When he obliges, they turn around and sell his sperm on the black market to all the other lesbians in the neighborhood, all of whom are also desperate to reproduce.

* Somewhere offscreen in the ''Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy'', Herald Vanyel fathered a child on one of a lesbian couple who were friends of his, though as an exceedingly busy person without particular interest in fatherhood he didn't keep much contact with little Arven. Notably, despite being gay Vanyel [[ChosenConceptionPartner performs this service]] for three sets of friends: two women, two men (with the help of a willing female surrogate), and for the mistress of a king who couldn't afford to be seen as infertile.
** In ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Vows and Honor]]'' (the same setting, hundreds of years later) Tarma and Kethry are good friends with another lesbian couple who both went and got pregnant at the same time and gave birth at just about the same time too.

* Zigzagged in ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13409038/1/ The Why We Fall Apart]]'' Blake and Yang are a bisexual example: Blake wanted to start a family with Yang, but Yang wanted to focus on her huntress career and this ended up being the primary reason they broke up. Years later however, Yang has had a long and distinguished career and feels ready to start a family, but Blake has already moved on and married Sun, so Yang is forced to look elsewhere for a partner.

* Somewhere offscreen in the ''Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy'', Herald Vanyel fathered a child on one of a lesbian couple who were friends of his, though as an exceedingly busy person without particular interest in fatherhood he didn't keep much contact with little Arven. Notably, despite being gay Vanyel [[ChosenConceptionPartner performs this service]] for three sets of friends; two women, two men (with the help of a willing female surrogate), and for the mistress of a king who couldn't afford to be seen as infertile.

* Zigzagged in ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13409038/1/ The Why We Fall Apart]]'' Blake and Yang are a bisexual example: Blake wanted to start a family with Yang, but Yang wanted to focus on her huntress career and this ended up being the primary reason they broke up. Years later however, Yang has had a long and distinguished career and feels ready to start a family, but Blake has already moved on and married Sun, so Yang is forced to look elsewhwre for a partner.

A SisterTrope of HasTwoMommies. May lead to HomosexualReproduction.

* ''Series/TheBisexual'': Leila and Sadie had been looking into having children during their relationship (but with some reluctance on Leila's part, before they broke up). Afterward though it's shown that Sadie is still looking into sperm donors.

* ''Series/SingleDrunkFemale'': Olivia and Stephanie, the show's lesbians (a married couple) are trying to have a baby via IVF.

* The HBO series ''Bored to Death'' features a storyline about a lesbian couple who hit up one of the male main characters for sperm in a coffee shop. [[Creator/EddieIzzard Like you do.]] When he obliges, they turn around and sell his sperm on the black market to all the other lesbians in the neighborhood, all of whom are also desperate to reproduce.

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* In Creator/NeilGaiman's ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' series, there is the lesbian couple of Hazel and Foxglove. Hazel becomes pregnant in ''A Game of You'' after a bicurious one-night-stand with a gay friend, is shown pregnant in the mini-series ''Death: The High Cost of Living'' and strikes a deal with Death in ''Death: The Time of Your Life'' to save the life of her son Alvie.

* In the ''very'' [[BlackHumor black sitcom]] ''Nighty Night'', psycho Julia Davies, while not being lesbian, is so fixated on handsome doctor Angus Deayton that once she gets hold of his sperm sample (a story in itself), she is so dead set on being inseminated with his child that ''even after it has been spilt over some British hospital food'' she is not deterred from having the whole unspeakable mess inserted into her.