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* An ''Series/UnsolvedMysteries'' segment about the search for the still-unknown SerialKiller the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_River_Valley_Killer Connecticut River Valley Killer]] featured the story of his final victim, a 7-months pregnant woman assaulted by him at a rest stop. Despite her multiple stab wounds, she and her baby survived.
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* On the evening of August 6, 1988, then-22 year old, then-7 months pregnant Jane Boroski pulled into a rest stop where she was then assaulted by the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_River_Valley_Killer Connecticut River Valley Killer]], who stabbed her multiple times and left her for dead. Miraculously, she and her baby survived.
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* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'':
** In ''The Plains of Passage'', the tyrannical Attaroa only lets Cavoa live after her escape attempt because she's pregnant (a rarity in the Three Sisters Camp since Attaroa took over[[note]]Attaroa has separated the men and women and forbids them from interacting; like many people in the setting, she doesn't understand how exactly conception works and she believes that the women will just have baby girls because they won't attract male spirits[[/note]]) and threatens that she will kill her if the baby is a boy. The father of Cavoa's baby and their friends were all poisoned by Attaroa, so everyone knows she's ''not'' bluffing. [[spoiler:Attaroa is killed and shortly after Cavoa gives birth to twins, [[UntoASonAndDaughterAreBorn a son and daughter]]]].
** Also in ''The Plains of Passage'', Yorga is pregnant when she's attacked by Charoli and his gang, who intend to rape her and also attack her mate when he defends her. Unfortunately for them, she's [[PregnantBadass not as soft a target as she appears]], holding them off long enough for help to arrive.
** In ''The Land of Painted Caves'', one of Balderan and his gang's ''many'' crimes is gang-raping a pregnant woman named Amelina and killing her mate when he tried to protect her. The gang then stole her supplies and left her to die in the woods. Amelina managed to make it back to her cave, but the physical and mental trauma resulted in a miscarriage.
** Late in ''The Land of Painted Caves'', [[spoiler:Ayla]] has a powerful drug-induced vision and unknowingly runs into a series of sacred caves, not long after realising she's pregnant. When she comes back to her senses, she's lost and alone in the caves with no food, water, light or adequate clothing. She's terrified she'll die down in the caves; luckily Wolf finds her and guides her out, but she subsequently realises she's had a miscarriage, much to her sorrow.
* ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'': In the climax of the third book, ''Fifty Shades Freed'', [[spoiler:Ana]] attempts to rescue Mia from Jack whilst pregnant and is beaten and knocked unconscious. [[spoiler:Both she and the baby survive]].
** In ''The Plains of Passage'', the tyrannical Attaroa only lets Cavoa live after her escape attempt because she's pregnant (a rarity in the Three Sisters Camp since Attaroa took over[[note]]Attaroa has separated the men and women and forbids them from interacting; like many people in the setting, she doesn't understand how exactly conception works and she believes that the women will just have baby girls because they won't attract male spirits[[/note]]) and threatens that she will kill her if the baby is a boy. The father of Cavoa's baby and their friends were all poisoned by Attaroa, so everyone knows she's ''not'' bluffing. [[spoiler:Attaroa is killed and shortly after Cavoa gives birth to twins, [[UntoASonAndDaughterAreBorn a son and daughter]]]].
** Also in ''The Plains of Passage'', Yorga is pregnant when she's attacked by Charoli and his gang, who intend to rape her and also attack her mate when he defends her. Unfortunately for them, she's [[PregnantBadass not as soft a target as she appears]], holding them off long enough for help to arrive.
** In ''The Land of Painted Caves'', one of Balderan and his gang's ''many'' crimes is gang-raping a pregnant woman named Amelina and killing her mate when he tried to protect her. The gang then stole her supplies and left her to die in the woods. Amelina managed to make it back to her cave, but the physical and mental trauma resulted in a miscarriage.
** Late in ''The Land of Painted Caves'', [[spoiler:Ayla]] has a powerful drug-induced vision and unknowingly runs into a series of sacred caves, not long after realising she's pregnant. When she comes back to her senses, she's lost and alone in the caves with no food, water, light or adequate clothing. She's terrified she'll die down in the caves; luckily Wolf finds her and guides her out, but she subsequently realises she's had a miscarriage, much to her sorrow.
* ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'': In the climax of the third book, ''Fifty Shades Freed'', [[spoiler:Ana]] attempts to rescue Mia from Jack whilst pregnant and is beaten and knocked unconscious. [[spoiler:Both she and the baby survive]].
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* In both the novel and film versions of ''Literature/BreakingDawn'', Bella suffers some very ''traumatic'' life-threatening complications while pregnant/giving birth to her daughter, Renesmee, due to the child being half-vampire and Edward has to quickly turn Bella in order for her to survive her injuries.
* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfDorsa'': Tasia goes on the campaign with her troops while pregnant, getting stabbed in the belly by one of her own guards who an enemy mind controls into attacking her, with her baby being killed.
* ''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 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 ''[[KillTheGod Deicide]]'' and so clinched the DeathOfTheOldGods.
* In ''Literature/ADayOfFallenNight'', Glorian "Shieldheart" Berethnet, the young queen of Inys, has no choice but to get pregnant at the very moment her country is locked in a brutal war with fire-breathing dragons and their spawn. Because Berethnet queens are believed to keep the biggest dragon of them dormant, and her mother is dead, Glorian needs a baby pronto to ensure the seal is maintained. She spends her whole pregnancy moving from one stronghold to another to direct her forces and keep ahead of the dragons and gives birth while under siege in a cavern.
* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfDorsa'': Tasia goes on the campaign with her troops while pregnant, getting stabbed in the belly by one of her own guards who an enemy mind controls into attacking her, with her baby being killed.
* ''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 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 ''[[KillTheGod Deicide]]'' and so clinched the DeathOfTheOldGods.
* In ''Literature/ADayOfFallenNight'', Glorian "Shieldheart" Berethnet, the young queen of Inys, has no choice but to get pregnant at the very moment her country is locked in a brutal war with fire-breathing dragons and their spawn. Because Berethnet queens are believed to keep the biggest dragon of them dormant, and her mother is dead, Glorian needs a baby pronto to ensure the seal is maintained. She spends her whole pregnancy moving from one stronghold to another to direct her forces and keep ahead of the dragons and gives birth while under siege in a cavern.
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* In ''Literature/{{The Hike|2023}}, [[spoiler:Helena]] finds out she's a few weeks pregnant shortly before beginning the titular hike. Consequently, she has to deal with morning sickness and feeling faint on top of the hike going horribly wrong, including facing natural dangers like storms and landslides, and being stalked by [[spoiler:drug traffickers]]. The others are concerned for [[spoiler:Helena]] when they find out she's pregnant, especially when she briefly passes out halfway up the mountain; Liz says she would never have made [[spoiler:Helena]] do the hike if she'd known about the pregnancy, but [[spoiler:Helena]] insists she'll be fine and that she chose to go on the hike even knowing she might be pregnant. [[spoiler:Helena]] realises she wants to keep the pregnancy despite her fear of parenthood when she feels protective over her unborn baby.
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* ''Literature/GoodOmens'': Mentioned in passing as part of Aziraphale's rationale for secretly giving Adam and Eve his flaming sword when they're cast out of Eden. Not only are there wild animals and brutal weather conditions on the outside, but Eve's already expecting, and he couldn't bear to let them leave with no way to defend themselves or their future child.
* In ''Literature/{{TheHike|2023}}, Hike|2023}}'', [[spoiler:Helena]] finds out she's a few weeks pregnant shortly before beginning the titular hike. Consequently, she has to deal with morning sickness and feeling faint on top of the hike going horribly wrong, including facing natural dangers like storms and landslides, and being stalked by [[spoiler:drug traffickers]]. The others are concerned for [[spoiler:Helena]] when they find out she's pregnant, especially when she briefly passes out halfway up the mountain; Liz says she would never have made [[spoiler:Helena]] do the hike if she'd known about the pregnancy, but [[spoiler:Helena]] insists she'll be fine and that she chose to go on the hike even knowing she might be pregnant. [[spoiler:Helena]] realises she wants to keep the pregnancy despite her fear of parenthood when she feels protective over her unborn baby.
* In ''Literature/{{The
* In ''Literature/LeftBehind'', Hattie Durham discovers that she has been poisoned while she was carrying [[TheAntichrist Nicolae Carpathia's]] child and fears that the child would be in danger. When her Christian friends get her into a medical facility, she delivers an undeveloped stillborn that was absorbed all the poison meant for Hattie and the medical team dispose of it to prevent further contamination, though the doctor responsible for the delivery ends up contracting the poison that kills him.
* ''Literature/MaledictionTrilogy'': Throughout ''Warrior Witch'', Cecile is pregnant with Tristan's child (although she is unaware of that fact for most of the time) and she has to face many dangers, including standing up to the faerie queen and defending a city surrounded by evil trolls.
* ''Literature/MaledictionTrilogy'': Throughout ''Warrior Witch'', Cecile is pregnant with Tristan's child (although she is unaware of that fact for most of the time) and she has to face many dangers, including standing up to the faerie queen and defending a city surrounded by evil trolls.
* The beginning of the diary of Creator/MurasakiShikibu chronicles the preparations for the Empress's imminent delivery of her first child. Everyone is very on edge, believing the dangers of pregnancy are caused by evil spirits, and have set up all sorts of defenses against them. There are hordes of priests constantly praying, various rituals being enacted night and day, as well as other women pretending to be in labor as decoys. When the Empress births a son with no issues there are several days of celebrations.
* In the Creator/SidneySheldon novel ''Nothing Lasts Forever'', Dr. Ken Mallory decides to kill his fiancée Dr. Kat Hunter when she refuses to have an abortion, because this will interfere with his plans to marry an heiress.
* An accidental version occurs in ''Literature/OutOfTheDust''; a freak accident causes the protagonist's heavily pregnant mother to be splashed with burning kerosene and she's immediately engulfed in flames, suffering third-degree burns over most of her body. She manages to survive, horribly disfigured and in agony, long enough to have the baby, but [[DeathByChildbirth dies during the birth]]. The child, a boy, dies shortly thereafter.
* In the Creator/SidneySheldon novel ''Nothing Lasts Forever'', Dr. Ken Mallory decides to kill his fiancée Dr. Kat Hunter when she refuses to have an abortion, because this will interfere with his plans to marry an heiress.
* An accidental version occurs in ''Literature/OutOfTheDust''; a freak accident causes the protagonist's heavily pregnant mother to be splashed with burning kerosene and she's immediately engulfed in flames, suffering third-degree burns over most of her body. She manages to survive, horribly disfigured and in agony, long enough to have the baby, but [[DeathByChildbirth dies during the birth]]. The child, a boy, dies shortly thereafter.
* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'':
** A novel has an escaped convict taking a maternity ward hostage. Among the patients is Jane Rizzoli. She's never harmed.
** Another book has a pregnant woman being abducted by someone who wants to steal her baby. She manages to kill the guy--''while in labor''-- and delivers safely. By the time the cops arrive, she's sitting on the side of the road, nursing her newborn daughter.
* In ''The Rose of Asturia'' by Iny Lorentz, this is what happens to [[spoiler:Ermengarde]]. She is pregnant while in the middle of nowhere, in early Medieval Europe, [[spoiler:on the run from the baby's father]], with only two (although admittedly badass) people to protect her. She makes it to safety, eventually.
** A novel has an escaped convict taking a maternity ward hostage. Among the patients is Jane Rizzoli. She's never harmed.
** Another book has a pregnant woman being abducted by someone who wants to steal her baby. She manages to kill the guy--''while in labor''-- and delivers safely. By the time the cops arrive, she's sitting on the side of the road, nursing her newborn daughter.
* In ''The Rose of Asturia'' by Iny Lorentz, this is what happens to [[spoiler:Ermengarde]]. She is pregnant while in the middle of nowhere, in early Medieval Europe, [[spoiler:on the run from the baby's father]], with only two (although admittedly badass) people to protect her. She makes it to safety, eventually.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** Mirri Maz Duur tricks the pregnant Daenerys Targaryen to make a deal to save her husband, Drogo, in exchange for a sacrifice. Daenerys thinks the sacrifice is Drogo's stallion, but it's actually their unborn son, Rhaego. She experiences a forced labor during the ritual, passes out, and wakes up several days later to learn that Rhaego is stillborn.
** 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, Aegon, was born prematurely and died three days later, and she would forever blame his death on the septas who had tried to murder her.
* The first two books of ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' has a pregnant Leia in the sights of an insane Dark Jedi named Joruus C’Boath, who intends to use the combined force strength of her, her unborn twins, and her brother Luke to MindRape and subjugate the galaxy. Of course, Leia is a Jedi herself and throughout most of the series she’s under the protection of Chewbacca, with the [[spoiler: Noghri]] also joining in once they learn who Leia’s biological father was. She gives birth by the third book.
* ''Literature/TwoLittleGirlsInBlue'': Norman Bond's ex-wife Theresa was a few months pregnant with twins when she went missing; she actually vanished on her way to her baby shower. Given the circumstances and that it happened seventeen years ago, many people naturally assume something terrible befell her. [[spoiler:It's revealed Norman murdered her; he recalls that she pleaded with him to spare her for the sake of her unborn children, which didn't work; given that their own twins died at birth, it's implied this only made Norman want Theresa dead even more]].
** Mirri Maz Duur tricks the pregnant Daenerys Targaryen to make a deal to save her husband, Drogo, in exchange for a sacrifice. Daenerys thinks the sacrifice is Drogo's stallion, but it's actually their unborn son, Rhaego. She experiences a forced labor during the ritual, passes out, and wakes up several days later to learn that Rhaego is stillborn.
** 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, Aegon, was born prematurely and died three days later, and she would forever blame his death on the septas who had tried to murder her.
* The first two books of ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' has a pregnant Leia in the sights of an insane Dark Jedi named Joruus C’Boath, who intends to use the combined force strength of her, her unborn twins, and her brother Luke to MindRape and subjugate the galaxy. Of course, Leia is a Jedi herself and throughout most of the series she’s under the protection of Chewbacca, with the [[spoiler: Noghri]] also joining in once they learn who Leia’s biological father was. She gives birth by the third book.
* ''Literature/TwoLittleGirlsInBlue'': Norman Bond's ex-wife Theresa was a few months pregnant with twins when she went missing; she actually vanished on her way to her baby shower. Given the circumstances and that it happened seventeen years ago, many people naturally assume something terrible befell her. [[spoiler:It's revealed Norman murdered her; he recalls that she pleaded with him to spare her for the sake of her unborn children, which didn't work; given that their own twins died at birth, it's implied this only made Norman want Theresa dead even more]].
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* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'':
** A novel has an escaped convict taking a maternity ward hostage. Among the patients is Jane Rizzoli. She's never harmed.
** Another book has a pregnant woman being abducted by someone who wants to steal her baby. She manages to kill the guy--''while in labor''-- and delivers safely. By the time the cops arrive, she's sitting on the side of the road, nursing her newborn daughter.
* ''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 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 ''[[KillTheGod Deicide]]'' and so clinched the DeathOfTheOldGods.
* In the Creator/SidneySheldon novel ''Nothing Lasts Forever'', Dr. Ken Mallory decides to kill his fiancée Dr. Kat Hunter when she refuses to have an abortion, because this will interfere with his plans to marry an heiress.
* In ''The Rose of Asturia'' by Iny Lorentz, this is what happens to [[spoiler:Ermengarde]]. She is pregnant while in the middle of nowhere, in early Medieval Europe, [[spoiler:on the run from the baby's father]], with only two (although admittedly badass) people to protect her. She makes it to safety, eventually.
* In ''Literature/LeftBehind'', Hattie Durham discovers that she has been poisoned while she was carrying [[TheAntichrist Nicolae Carpathia's]] child and fears that the child would be in danger. When her Christian friends get her into a medical facility, she delivers an undeveloped stillborn that was absorbed all the poison meant for Hattie and the medical team dispose of it to prevent further contamination, though the doctor responsible for the delivery ends up contracting the poison that kills him.
* ''Literature/MaledictionTrilogy'': Throughout ''Warrior Witch'', Cecile is pregnant with Tristan's child (although she is unaware of that fact for most of the time) and she has to face many dangers, including standing up to the faerie queen and defending a city surrounded by evil trolls.
* The first two books of ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' has a pregnant Leia in the sights of an insane Dark Jedi named Joruus C’Boath, who intends to use the combined force strength of her, her unborn twins, and her brother Luke to MindRape and subjugate the galaxy. Of course, Leia is a Jedi herself and throughout most of the series she’s under the protection of Chewbacca, with the [[spoiler: Noghri]] also joining in once they learn who Leia’s biological father was. She gives birth by the third book.
* In both the novel and film versions of ''Literature/BreakingDawn'', Bella suffers some very ''traumatic'' life-threatening complications while pregnant/giving birth to her daughter, Renesmee, due to the child being half-vampire and Edward has to quickly turn Bella in order for her to survive her injuries.
* An accidental version occurs in ''Literature/OutOfTheDust'', when, in a freak accident,the protagonist's heavily pregnant mother is splashed with burning kerosene and is immediately engulfed in flames, suffering third-degree burns over most of her body. She manages to survive, horribly disfigured and in agony, long enough to have the baby, but [[DeathByChildbirth dies during the birth]]. The child, a boy, dies shortly thereafter.
* ''Literature/GoodOmens'': Mentioned in passing as part of Aziraphale's rationale for secretly giving Adam and Eve his flaming sword when they're cast out of Eden. Not only are there wild animals and brutal weather conditions on the outside, but Eve's already expecting, and he couldn't bear to let them leave with no way to defend themselves or their future child.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** Mirri Maz Duur tricks the pregnant Daenerys Targaryen to make a deal to save her husband, Drogo, in exchange for a sacrifice. Daenerys thinks the sacrifice is Drogo's stallion, but it's actually their unborn son, Rhaego. She experiences a forced labor during the ritual, passes out, and wakes up several days later to learn that Rhaego is stillborn.
** 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, Aegon, was born prematurely and died three days later, and she would forever blame his death on the septas who had tried to murder her.
* The beginning of the diary of Creator/MurasakiShikibu chronicles the preparations for the Empress's imminent delivery of her first child. Everyone is very on edge, believing the dangers of pregnancy are caused by evil spirits, and have set up all sorts of defenses against them. There are hordes of priests constantly praying, various rituals being enacted night and day, as well as other women pretending to be in labor as decoys. When the Empress births a son with no issues there are several days of celebrations.
* ''Literature/TwoLittleGirlsInBlue'': Norman Bond's ex-wife Theresa was a few months pregnant with twins when she went missing; she actually vanished on her way to her baby shower. Given the circumstances and that it happened seventeen years ago, many people naturally assume something terrible befell her. [[spoiler:It's revealed Norman murdered her; he recalls that she pleaded with him to spare her for the sake of her unborn children, which didn't work; given that their own twins died at birth, it's implied this only made Norman want Theresa dead even more]].
* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfDorsa'': Tasia goes on the campaign with her troops while pregnant, getting stabbed in the belly by one of her own guards who an enemy mind controls into attacking her, with her baby being killed.
* In ''Literature/ADayOfFallenNight'', Glorian "Shieldheart" Berethnet, the young queen of Inys, has no choice but to get pregnant at the very moment her country is locked in a brutal war with fire-breathing dragons and their spawn. Because Berethnet queens are believed to keep the biggest dragon of them dormant, and her mother is dead, Glorian needs a baby pronto to ensure the seal is maintained. She spends her whole pregnancy moving from one stronghold to another to direct her forces and keep ahead of the dragons and gives birth while under siege in a cavern.
** A novel has an escaped convict taking a maternity ward hostage. Among the patients is Jane Rizzoli. She's never harmed.
** Another book has a pregnant woman being abducted by someone who wants to steal her baby. She manages to kill the guy--''while in labor''-- and delivers safely. By the time the cops arrive, she's sitting on the side of the road, nursing her newborn daughter.
* ''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 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 ''[[KillTheGod Deicide]]'' and so clinched the DeathOfTheOldGods.
* In the Creator/SidneySheldon novel ''Nothing Lasts Forever'', Dr. Ken Mallory decides to kill his fiancée Dr. Kat Hunter when she refuses to have an abortion, because this will interfere with his plans to marry an heiress.
* In ''The Rose of Asturia'' by Iny Lorentz, this is what happens to [[spoiler:Ermengarde]]. She is pregnant while in the middle of nowhere, in early Medieval Europe, [[spoiler:on the run from the baby's father]], with only two (although admittedly badass) people to protect her. She makes it to safety, eventually.
* In ''Literature/LeftBehind'', Hattie Durham discovers that she has been poisoned while she was carrying [[TheAntichrist Nicolae Carpathia's]] child and fears that the child would be in danger. When her Christian friends get her into a medical facility, she delivers an undeveloped stillborn that was absorbed all the poison meant for Hattie and the medical team dispose of it to prevent further contamination, though the doctor responsible for the delivery ends up contracting the poison that kills him.
* ''Literature/MaledictionTrilogy'': Throughout ''Warrior Witch'', Cecile is pregnant with Tristan's child (although she is unaware of that fact for most of the time) and she has to face many dangers, including standing up to the faerie queen and defending a city surrounded by evil trolls.
* The first two books of ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' has a pregnant Leia in the sights of an insane Dark Jedi named Joruus C’Boath, who intends to use the combined force strength of her, her unborn twins, and her brother Luke to MindRape and subjugate the galaxy. Of course, Leia is a Jedi herself and throughout most of the series she’s under the protection of Chewbacca, with the [[spoiler: Noghri]] also joining in once they learn who Leia’s biological father was. She gives birth by the third book.
* In both the novel and film versions of ''Literature/BreakingDawn'', Bella suffers some very ''traumatic'' life-threatening complications while pregnant/giving birth to her daughter, Renesmee, due to the child being half-vampire and Edward has to quickly turn Bella in order for her to survive her injuries.
* An accidental version occurs in ''Literature/OutOfTheDust'', when, in a freak accident,the protagonist's heavily pregnant mother is splashed with burning kerosene and is immediately engulfed in flames, suffering third-degree burns over most of her body. She manages to survive, horribly disfigured and in agony, long enough to have the baby, but [[DeathByChildbirth dies during the birth]]. The child, a boy, dies shortly thereafter.
* ''Literature/GoodOmens'': Mentioned in passing as part of Aziraphale's rationale for secretly giving Adam and Eve his flaming sword when they're cast out of Eden. Not only are there wild animals and brutal weather conditions on the outside, but Eve's already expecting, and he couldn't bear to let them leave with no way to defend themselves or their future child.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** Mirri Maz Duur tricks the pregnant Daenerys Targaryen to make a deal to save her husband, Drogo, in exchange for a sacrifice. Daenerys thinks the sacrifice is Drogo's stallion, but it's actually their unborn son, Rhaego. She experiences a forced labor during the ritual, passes out, and wakes up several days later to learn that Rhaego is stillborn.
** 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, Aegon, was born prematurely and died three days later, and she would forever blame his death on the septas who had tried to murder her.
* The beginning of the diary of Creator/MurasakiShikibu chronicles the preparations for the Empress's imminent delivery of her first child. Everyone is very on edge, believing the dangers of pregnancy are caused by evil spirits, and have set up all sorts of defenses against them. There are hordes of priests constantly praying, various rituals being enacted night and day, as well as other women pretending to be in labor as decoys. When the Empress births a son with no issues there are several days of celebrations.
* ''Literature/TwoLittleGirlsInBlue'': Norman Bond's ex-wife Theresa was a few months pregnant with twins when she went missing; she actually vanished on her way to her baby shower. Given the circumstances and that it happened seventeen years ago, many people naturally assume something terrible befell her. [[spoiler:It's revealed Norman murdered her; he recalls that she pleaded with him to spare her for the sake of her unborn children, which didn't work; given that their own twins died at birth, it's implied this only made Norman want Theresa dead even more]].
* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfDorsa'': Tasia goes on the campaign with her troops while pregnant, getting stabbed in the belly by one of her own guards who an enemy mind controls into attacking her, with her baby being killed.
* In ''Literature/ADayOfFallenNight'', Glorian "Shieldheart" Berethnet, the young queen of Inys, has no choice but to get pregnant at the very moment her country is locked in a brutal war with fire-breathing dragons and their spawn. Because Berethnet queens are believed to keep the biggest dragon of them dormant, and her mother is dead, Glorian needs a baby pronto to ensure the seal is maintained. She spends her whole pregnancy moving from one stronghold to another to direct her forces and keep ahead of the dragons and gives birth while under siege in a cavern.
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* ''Series/TheLegendOfXiaoChuo'': Yan Yan is pregnant when Xi Yin tries to murder her.
* ''Series/TheGlamorousImperialConcubine'': Du Wan is executed while pregnant.
* ''Series/TheGlamorousImperialConcubine'': Du Wan is executed while pregnant.
to:
* ''Series/TheLegendOfXiaoChuo'': Yan Yan The average SoapOpera is bound to put at least a third of their heroines through varying versions of this. ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'''s Emily was even kidnapped and was off-screen for several months to make allowances for the actress's maternity leave, being found just in time for the delivery.
* ''Series/TheBarrier'':
** [[spoiler:The pregnantwhen Xi Yin tries to murder her.
* ''Series/TheGlamorousImperialConcubine'': Du Wan is executedmistress of a minister who died in a suspicious accident]] has a pregnancy complication while pregnant.preparing to go on the run from the authorities. This results in the protagonists moving her from her apartment to theirs rather than taking her to the hospital. While in her new temporary hiding place, she spots the photo of a little girl who lives in the appartement. This, combined with the scare of losing her own child, results in her spilling out the secret because of which she's at risk for a SheKnowsTooMuch death.
** [[spoiler:Manuela, who is in a relationship with her employer's son,]] catches the deadly virus that going around after being established to be in an early stage of pregnancy.
* In the pilot episode of ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', a pregnant Margaret is beaten so severely by her {{Domestic Abuse}}r husband that she miscarries.
* ''Series/TheBarrier'':
** [[spoiler:The pregnant
* ''Series/TheGlamorousImperialConcubine'': Du Wan is executed
** [[spoiler:Manuela, who is in a relationship with her employer's son,]] catches the deadly virus that going around after being established to be in an early stage of pregnancy.
* In the pilot episode of ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', a pregnant Margaret is beaten so severely by her {{Domestic Abuse}}r husband that she miscarries.
* ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'' has a housewife of a firefighter exposed to her radioactive husband when she visits him in the hospital. Unaware of the true circumstances of her husband's condition, she chooses to stay with him despite repeated warnings from hospital staff not to physically interact with the patients. She is later revealed to be pregnant through the whole ordeal. [[spoiler:As with [[TruthInTelevision real life]], Lyudmilla Ignatenko eventually gave birth to a baby girl... who lived for a total of 4 hours due to absorbing most of her mother's radiation.]]
* In ''Series/ChicagoPD'', Officer Kim Burgess, who's pregnant with her partner's child, goes into a crime scene alone to rescue a teenage sex trafficking victim from being murdered by a violent pimp. [[spoiler: She gets assaulted for her effort and, while she's able to shoot the pimp dead in self-defense, miscarries the baby as a result]].
* ''Containment'' features a nine-months-pregnant teenager who is trapped in the cordoned off section of the city with the virus that kills people within 48 hours.
* An episode of ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'' had the team investigating a mass shooting at a diner. One of the victims is an employee who's discovered to be pregnant in her autopsy. The shooting is initially thought to be a mob hit [[spoiler:until they discover the employee hadn't told her parents about her pregnancy and find out the diner's owner, also the baby's father, shot everyone starting with her.]]
* In ''Series/ChicagoPD'', Officer Kim Burgess, who's pregnant with her partner's child, goes into a crime scene alone to rescue a teenage sex trafficking victim from being murdered by a violent pimp. [[spoiler: She gets assaulted for her effort and, while she's able to shoot the pimp dead in self-defense, miscarries the baby as a result]].
* ''Containment'' features a nine-months-pregnant teenager who is trapped in the cordoned off section of the city with the virus that kills people within 48 hours.
* An episode of ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'' had the team investigating a mass shooting at a diner. One of the victims is an employee who's discovered to be pregnant in her autopsy. The shooting is initially thought to be a mob hit [[spoiler:until they discover the employee hadn't told her parents about her pregnancy and find out the diner's owner, also the baby's father, shot everyone starting with her.]]
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* ''Series/Mouse2021'': Ji-eun is attacked and almost killed while pregnant. Unusually she deliberately put herself in danger and [[DeathSeeker was trying to get killed.]]
* ''Series/PrincessAgents'': Taken to horrific extremes when Yan Hong Xiao is murdered during her pregnancy.
* ''Series/TheKingsWoman'':
** Ying Zheng puts Gongsun Li through hell when he discovers she's pregnant with Jing Ke's child. Forcing her to fight a duel, almost choking her, threatening to kill her and her unborn baby...
** Lady Han is murdered while pregnant, because of Min Dai.
* In the second episode of the short-lived 2000 Creator/{{ABC}} series ''Series/{{Wonderland}}'', a pregnant doctor gets stabbed in the stomach with a syringe by a mental patient.
* ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'' has a housewife of a firefighter exposed to her radioactive husband when she visits him in the hospital. Unaware of the true circumstances of her husband's condition, she chooses to stay with him despite repeated warnings from hospital staff not to physically interact with the patients. She is later revealed to be pregnant through the whole ordeal. [[spoiler:As with [[TruthInTelevision real life]], Lyudmilla Ignatenko eventually gave birth to a baby girl... who lived for a total of 4 hours due to absorbing most of her mother's radiation.]]
* ''Series/PrincessAgents'': Taken to horrific extremes when Yan Hong Xiao is murdered during her pregnancy.
* ''Series/TheKingsWoman'':
** Ying Zheng puts Gongsun Li through hell when he discovers she's pregnant with Jing Ke's child. Forcing her to fight a duel, almost choking her, threatening to kill her and her unborn baby...
** Lady Han is murdered while pregnant, because of Min Dai.
* In the second episode of the short-lived 2000 Creator/{{ABC}} series ''Series/{{Wonderland}}'', a pregnant doctor gets stabbed in the stomach with a syringe by a mental patient.
* ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'' has a housewife of a firefighter exposed to her radioactive husband when she visits him in the hospital. Unaware of the true circumstances of her husband's condition, she chooses to stay with him despite repeated warnings from hospital staff not to physically interact with the patients. She is later revealed to be pregnant through the whole ordeal. [[spoiler:As with [[TruthInTelevision real life]], Lyudmilla Ignatenko eventually gave birth to a baby girl... who lived for a total of 4 hours due to absorbing most of her mother's radiation.]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Amy is once kidnapped while pregnant because [[spoiler:the Silence's boss thinks that her unborn child could be a Time Lord]]. Not to mention all of the situations she ends up getting into with the Doctor, including her husband dying. Something like ten times.
** In the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]", [[spoiler:one fake version of Amy is pregnant and trapped in a small town with aliens disguised as the elderly (again) ready to disintegrate everyone, but mostly her family.]] To get away, she drives a van into a cottage. And [[ButtMonkey her husband]] dies. [[RunningGag Three times]]. ''In one episode.''
** Amy is once kidnapped while pregnant because [[spoiler:the Silence's boss thinks that her unborn child could be a Time Lord]]. Not to mention all of the situations she ends up getting into with the Doctor, including her husband dying. Something like ten times.
** In the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]", [[spoiler:one fake version of Amy is pregnant and trapped in a small town with aliens disguised as the elderly (again) ready to disintegrate everyone, but mostly her family.]] To get away, she drives a van into a cottage. And [[ButtMonkey her husband]] dies. [[RunningGag Three times]]. ''In one episode.''
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* ''Series/Numb3rs'': In "Backscatter", one of the bank workers being held hostage is pregnant.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E11FridaysChild Friday's Child]]", a usurper named Ma'ab kills Aka'ar, the Teer (tribal king), in an attempted coup. He then demands Aka'ar's pregnant wife Eleen and her unborn son killed, as the unborn son is the true heir of succession, and Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] have to go on the run with Eleen to keep her safe.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E25BodyParts Body Parts]]" Keiko O'Brien is badly injured in a shuttle accident, and Dr. Bashir is forced to transplant the unborn Kirayoshi O'Brien into Kira Nerys, the only other female present. In this case it was an EnforcedTrope: In real life, Creator/NanaVisitor (Kira) was married to Creator/AlexanderSiddig (Bashir) and had gotten pregnant with his baby, and rather than find some way to HideYourPregnancy they [[WrittenInInfirmity wrote it into the script]].
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E11TheDarknessAndTheLight The Darkness and the Light]]" a SerialKiller targets the surviving members of Kira's old [[LaResistance Bajoran resistance]] cell, eventually luring the very pregnant Kira to his hideout, stunning her, and then attempting to cut Kirayoshi out of her (the intent was to save the innocent baby and take revenge on Kira). She manages to [[PregnantBadass turn the tables and shoot him.]]
* The ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' ChristmasEpisode "Newborn King" had the team defending a very pregnant Marine from mercenaries trying to get the baby, due to it being, if male, the only surviving heir to an Afghan tribe. (She'd fallen in love with the previous heir, who was later killed by the Taliban.) A MaternityCrisis ensues and Gibbs ends up [[DeliveryGuy delivering the baby]] in a gas station while Ziva fights off the mercs in the next room.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E11FridaysChild Friday's Child]]", a usurper named Ma'ab kills Aka'ar, the Teer (tribal king), in an attempted coup. He then demands Aka'ar's pregnant wife Eleen and her unborn son killed, as the unborn son is the true heir of succession, and Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] have to go on the run with Eleen to keep her safe.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E25BodyParts Body Parts]]" Keiko O'Brien is badly injured in a shuttle accident, and Dr. Bashir is forced to transplant the unborn Kirayoshi O'Brien into Kira Nerys, the only other female present. In this case it was an EnforcedTrope: In real life, Creator/NanaVisitor (Kira) was married to Creator/AlexanderSiddig (Bashir) and had gotten pregnant with his baby, and rather than find some way to HideYourPregnancy they [[WrittenInInfirmity wrote it into the script]].
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E11TheDarknessAndTheLight The Darkness and the Light]]" a SerialKiller targets the surviving members of Kira's old [[LaResistance Bajoran resistance]] cell, eventually luring the very pregnant Kira to his hideout, stunning her, and then attempting to cut Kirayoshi out of her (the intent was to save the innocent baby and take revenge on Kira). She manages to [[PregnantBadass turn the tables and shoot him.]]
* The ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' ChristmasEpisode "Newborn King" had the team defending a very pregnant Marine from mercenaries trying to get the baby, due to it being, if male, the only surviving heir to an Afghan tribe. (She'd fallen in love with the previous heir, who was later killed by the Taliban.) A MaternityCrisis ensues and Gibbs ends up [[DeliveryGuy delivering the baby]] in a gas station while Ziva fights off the mercs in the next room.
* In the fourth season finale of ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'', the BigBad of the season attacks Cecile (Who temporarily gained psychic powers and was using them to help defeat him), while she is close to giving birth. Thankfully, he is stopped before he can cause any significant damage.
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** A pregnant character is stabbed multiple times in the belly at one point, leading to the death of both her and her child. For bonus points, the character is a CanonForeigner[[note]]whose [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire book counterpart]] may or may not be pregnant but is in any case [[DeathByAdaptation still alive]][[/note]] so the producers only added the pregnancy storyline for drama and gore points.
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** A pregnant character [[spoiler:Robb Stark's queen Talisa]] is stabbed multiple times in the belly at one point, during the Red Wedding, leading to the death of both her and her child. For bonus points, the character is a CanonForeigner[[note]]whose [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire book counterpart]] may or may not be pregnant but is in any case [[DeathByAdaptation still alive]][[/note]] so the producers only added the pregnancy storyline for drama and gore points.
* ''Series/TheGlamorousImperialConcubine'': Du Wan is executed while pregnant.
* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', one of Sgt. Wu's Filipino friends gets attacked by an aswang, which nearly kills her fetus while she was sleeping. Nick and Hank were able to resolve the situation and save her again from the monster.
* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', one of Sgt. Wu's Filipino friends gets attacked by an aswang, which nearly kills her fetus while she was sleeping. Nick and Hank were able to resolve the situation and save her again from the monster.
* ''Series/KeepBreathing'': Liv is stranded in the Canadian wilderness with no one to help and facing the perils which this brings when in the early months of pregnancy. The most dire situation is when Liv falls into a crevice where she gets trapped, then falls down a mountain and goes in the river on a log where she nearly drowns.
* ''Series/TheKingsWoman'':
** Ying Zheng puts Gongsun Li through hell when he discovers she's pregnant with Jing Ke's child. Forcing her to fight a duel, almost choking her, threatening to kill her and her unborn baby...
** Lady Han is murdered while pregnant, because of Min Dai.
* In a ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode based on the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Levy Chandra Levy]] case, it's revealed that the Levy {{Expy}} was pregnant and both refusing to have an abortion as well as threatening to go public, which would have destroyed the politician's marriage and reputation. [[spoiler: It turned out his WIFE hired a hitman to kill the girl in order to kill two birds with one stone -- get rid of her and frame her husband]].
* In one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit,'' where Creator/MartinShort plays the villain of the week, it's revealed that one character is not her child's mother at all. [[spoiler:She assaulted a woman very close to giving birth, and cut the unborn fetus out of her body to steal it, killing her in the process. The child is returned to his grieving father by the end of the episode.]]
* ''Series/TheLegendOfXiaoChuo'': Yan Yan is pregnant when Xi Yin tries to murder her.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'':
** 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 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.
** Ana Lucia was a cop who got shot in the line of duty which caused her to miscarry her unborn child. Once she recovers and is back on patrol she hunts down the man responsible and kills him, her last words to him being "I was pregnant".
* In the ''Marple'' episode "The Blue Geranium", an adaptation of the short story from ''Literature/TheThirteenProblems'', a six-months-pregnant woman is strangled...and that isn't even the primary mystery!
* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': After it turns out Rowan's pregnant by Ciprien, Lasher tries to use her baby as a "doorway" into the world so he won't remain as a spirit anymore.
* ''Series/MiamiVice'': Crockett's second wife Caitlin is six weeks pregnant at the time of [[CartwrightCurse her murder]]. Crockett doesn't find out about the pregnancy until her autopsy.
* ''Series/MidnightSun2016'': Jenny-Ann, who's nearly full term, is put in harm's way multiple times. First she's knocked against a table on her belly when a fight breaks out near her (but thankfully the baby's fine). Later she's targeted for death with her child by the killer, but is rescued by the Sami.
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': In "The Dead Hand", Det. Mazur (who has just learned that she is pregnant) is one of the detectives in the squad room when a woman with a bomb walks in and threatens to blow the place up. Angie, knowing that Mazur is pregnant, arranges for her and Lucas to be released to investigate the woman's case. Mazur is later ashamed that she accepted so readily and left Angie to face the danger alone.
* ''Series/Mouse2021'': Ji-eun is attacked and almost killed while pregnant. Unusually she deliberately put herself in danger and [[DeathSeeker was trying to get killed.]]
* The ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' ChristmasEpisode "Newborn King" had the team defending a very pregnant Marine from mercenaries trying to get the baby, due to it being, if male, the only surviving heir to an Afghan tribe. (She'd fallen in love with the previous heir, who was later killed by the Taliban.) A MaternityCrisis ensues and Gibbs ends up [[DeliveryGuy delivering the baby]] in a gas station while Ziva fights off the mercs in the next room.
* ''Series/Numb3rs'': In "Backscatter", one of the bank workers being held hostage is pregnant.
* ''Series/PrincessAgents'': Taken to horrific extremes when Yan Hong Xiao is murdered during her pregnancy.
* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' has [[spoiler: Jane]] helping a teenage witness survive while trapped in a warehouse with a hitman. She is far from delicate and survives many perilous situations while pregnant, but [[spoiler: Jane later loses the baby after the hitman hits her in the stomach with a pipe.]]
* ''Series/TheRookie2018'': Angela's kidnapped to Guatemala in the Season 4 opener while six months pregnant. This is somewhat subverted as her kidnapper doesn't want to harm her (or more specifically her unborn baby) and provides her with great medical care and her own personal home as her captivity placement (to have her avoid stress in her pregnancy). However, the entire point of her plan is to exact revenge on Angela by taking her baby and raising the child as her own, disposing of Angela as soon as the baby is born.
* Riley in ''Series/Sense8'' has several flashbacks throughout the first season where she relives the tragic car accident that took her husband's life while she was in labor. She had to have her baby in a turned upside down car, during a snow storm, with her husband's corpse lay next to her. [[spoiler:The baby then died of exposure to the Icelandic winter while Riley was trying to hike them to safety.]]
* In ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', [[spoiler: Tara]] is kidnapped in the second season. When one of the kidnappers tries to kick her in the stomach, she begs him not to because she is pregnant. He stops and hits her in the face instead.
* ''Series/TheKingsWoman'':
** Ying Zheng puts Gongsun Li through hell when he discovers she's pregnant with Jing Ke's child. Forcing her to fight a duel, almost choking her, threatening to kill her and her unborn baby...
** Lady Han is murdered while pregnant, because of Min Dai.
* In a ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode based on the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Levy Chandra Levy]] case, it's revealed that the Levy {{Expy}} was pregnant and both refusing to have an abortion as well as threatening to go public, which would have destroyed the politician's marriage and reputation. [[spoiler: It turned out his WIFE hired a hitman to kill the girl in order to kill two birds with one stone -- get rid of her and frame her husband]].
* In one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit,'' where Creator/MartinShort plays the villain of the week, it's revealed that one character is not her child's mother at all. [[spoiler:She assaulted a woman very close to giving birth, and cut the unborn fetus out of her body to steal it, killing her in the process. The child is returned to his grieving father by the end of the episode.]]
* ''Series/TheLegendOfXiaoChuo'': Yan Yan is pregnant when Xi Yin tries to murder her.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'':
** 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 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.
** Ana Lucia was a cop who got shot in the line of duty which caused her to miscarry her unborn child. Once she recovers and is back on patrol she hunts down the man responsible and kills him, her last words to him being "I was pregnant".
* In the ''Marple'' episode "The Blue Geranium", an adaptation of the short story from ''Literature/TheThirteenProblems'', a six-months-pregnant woman is strangled...and that isn't even the primary mystery!
* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': After it turns out Rowan's pregnant by Ciprien, Lasher tries to use her baby as a "doorway" into the world so he won't remain as a spirit anymore.
* ''Series/MiamiVice'': Crockett's second wife Caitlin is six weeks pregnant at the time of [[CartwrightCurse her murder]]. Crockett doesn't find out about the pregnancy until her autopsy.
* ''Series/MidnightSun2016'': Jenny-Ann, who's nearly full term, is put in harm's way multiple times. First she's knocked against a table on her belly when a fight breaks out near her (but thankfully the baby's fine). Later she's targeted for death with her child by the killer, but is rescued by the Sami.
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': In "The Dead Hand", Det. Mazur (who has just learned that she is pregnant) is one of the detectives in the squad room when a woman with a bomb walks in and threatens to blow the place up. Angie, knowing that Mazur is pregnant, arranges for her and Lucas to be released to investigate the woman's case. Mazur is later ashamed that she accepted so readily and left Angie to face the danger alone.
* ''Series/Mouse2021'': Ji-eun is attacked and almost killed while pregnant. Unusually she deliberately put herself in danger and [[DeathSeeker was trying to get killed.]]
* The ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' ChristmasEpisode "Newborn King" had the team defending a very pregnant Marine from mercenaries trying to get the baby, due to it being, if male, the only surviving heir to an Afghan tribe. (She'd fallen in love with the previous heir, who was later killed by the Taliban.) A MaternityCrisis ensues and Gibbs ends up [[DeliveryGuy delivering the baby]] in a gas station while Ziva fights off the mercs in the next room.
* ''Series/Numb3rs'': In "Backscatter", one of the bank workers being held hostage is pregnant.
* ''Series/PrincessAgents'': Taken to horrific extremes when Yan Hong Xiao is murdered during her pregnancy.
* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' has [[spoiler: Jane]] helping a teenage witness survive while trapped in a warehouse with a hitman. She is far from delicate and survives many perilous situations while pregnant, but [[spoiler: Jane later loses the baby after the hitman hits her in the stomach with a pipe.]]
* ''Series/TheRookie2018'': Angela's kidnapped to Guatemala in the Season 4 opener while six months pregnant. This is somewhat subverted as her kidnapper doesn't want to harm her (or more specifically her unborn baby) and provides her with great medical care and her own personal home as her captivity placement (to have her avoid stress in her pregnancy). However, the entire point of her plan is to exact revenge on Angela by taking her baby and raising the child as her own, disposing of Angela as soon as the baby is born.
* Riley in ''Series/Sense8'' has several flashbacks throughout the first season where she relives the tragic car accident that took her husband's life while she was in labor. She had to have her baby in a turned upside down car, during a snow storm, with her husband's corpse lay next to her. [[spoiler:The baby then died of exposure to the Icelandic winter while Riley was trying to hike them to safety.]]
* In ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', [[spoiler: Tara]] is kidnapped in the second season. When one of the kidnappers tries to kick her in the stomach, she begs him not to because she is pregnant. He stops and hits her in the face instead.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Amy is once kidnapped while pregnant because [[spoiler:the Silence's boss thinks that her unborn child could be a Time Lord]]. Not to mention all of the situations she ends up getting into with the Doctor, including her husband dying. Something like ten times.
** In the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]", [[spoiler:one fake version of Amy is pregnant and trapped in a small town with aliens disguised as the elderly (again) ready to disintegrate everyone, but mostly her family.]] To get away, she drives a van into a cottage. And [[ButtMonkey her husband]] dies. [[RunningGag Three times]]. ''In one episode.''
* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', one of Sgt. Wu's Filipino friends gets attacked by an aswang, which nearly kills her fetus while she was sleeping. Nick and Hank were able to resolve the situation and save her again from the monster.
* In ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', [[spoiler: Tara]] is kidnapped in the second season. When one of the kidnappers tries to kick her in the stomach, she begs him not to because she is pregnant. He stops and hits her in the face instead.
* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' has [[spoiler: Jane]] helping a teenage witness survive while trapped in a warehouse with a hitman. She is far from delicate and survives many perilous situations while pregnant, but [[spoiler: Jane later loses the baby after the hitman hits her in the stomach with a pipe.]]
* Similar to above, in ''Series/ChicagoPD'', Officer Kim Burgess, who's pregnant with her partner's child, goes into a crime scene alone to rescue a teenage sex trafficking victim from being murdered by a violent pimp. [[spoiler: She gets assaulted for her effort and, while she's able to shoot the pimp dead in self-defense, miscarries the baby as a result]].
* In the pilot episode of ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', a pregnant Margaret is beaten so severely by her {{Domestic Abuse}}r husband that she miscarries.
** Amy is once kidnapped while pregnant because [[spoiler:the Silence's boss thinks that her unborn child could be a Time Lord]]. Not to mention all of the situations she ends up getting into with the Doctor, including her husband dying. Something like ten times.
** In the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]", [[spoiler:one fake version of Amy is pregnant and trapped in a small town with aliens disguised as the elderly (again) ready to disintegrate everyone, but mostly her family.]] To get away, she drives a van into a cottage. And [[ButtMonkey her husband]] dies. [[RunningGag Three times]]. ''In one episode.''
* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', one of Sgt. Wu's Filipino friends gets attacked by an aswang, which nearly kills her fetus while she was sleeping. Nick and Hank were able to resolve the situation and save her again from the monster.
* In ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', [[spoiler: Tara]] is kidnapped in the second season. When one of the kidnappers tries to kick her in the stomach, she begs him not to because she is pregnant. He stops and hits her in the face instead.
* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' has [[spoiler: Jane]] helping a teenage witness survive while trapped in a warehouse with a hitman. She is far from delicate and survives many perilous situations while pregnant, but [[spoiler: Jane later loses the baby after the hitman hits her in the stomach with a pipe.]]
* Similar to above, in ''Series/ChicagoPD'', Officer Kim Burgess, who's pregnant with her partner's child, goes into a crime scene alone to rescue a teenage sex trafficking victim from being murdered by a violent pimp. [[spoiler: She gets assaulted for her effort and, while she's able to shoot the pimp dead in self-defense, miscarries the baby as a result]].
* In the pilot episode of ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', a pregnant Margaret is beaten so severely by her {{Domestic Abuse}}r husband that she miscarries.
to:
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Amy is once kidnapped whileIn the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E11FridaysChild Friday's Child]]", a usurper named Ma'ab kills Aka'ar, the Teer (tribal king), in an attempted coup. He then demands Aka'ar's pregnant because [[spoiler:the Silence's boss thinks that wife Eleen and her unborn child could be a Time Lord]]. Not to mention all of son killed, as the situations she ends up getting into unborn son is the true heir of succession, and Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] have to go on the run with the Doctor, including Eleen to keep her husband dying. Something like ten times.
safe.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E25BodyParts Body Parts]]" Keiko O'Brien is badly injured in a shuttle accident, and Dr. Bashir is forced to transplant theepisode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]", [[spoiler:one fake version of Amy is unborn Kirayoshi O'Brien into Kira Nerys, the only other female present. In this case it was an EnforcedTrope: In real life, Creator/NanaVisitor (Kira) was married to Creator/AlexanderSiddig (Bashir) and had gotten pregnant and trapped in a small town with aliens disguised as the elderly (again) ready his baby, and rather than find some way to disintegrate everyone, but mostly her family.]] To get away, she drives a van HideYourPregnancy they [[WrittenInInfirmity wrote it into the script]].
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E11TheDarknessAndTheLight The Darkness and the Light]]" acottage. And [[ButtMonkey SerialKiller targets the surviving members of Kira's old [[LaResistance Bajoran resistance]] cell, eventually luring the very pregnant Kira to his hideout, stunning her, and then attempting to cut Kirayoshi out of her husband]] dies. [[RunningGag Three times]]. ''In one episode.''
* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', one of Sgt. Wu's Filipino friends gets attacked by an aswang, which nearly kills her fetus while she(the intent was sleeping. Nick and Hank were able to resolve the situation and save her again from the monster.
* In ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', [[spoiler: Tara]] is kidnapped in the second season. When one of the kidnappers tries to kick her in the stomach, she begs him not to because she is pregnant. He stops and hits her in the face instead.
* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' has [[spoiler: Jane]] helping a teenage witness survive while trapped in a warehouse with a hitman. She is far from delicate and survives many perilous situations while pregnant, but [[spoiler: Jane later loses theinnocent baby after and take revenge on Kira). She manages to [[PregnantBadass turn the hitman hits her in the stomach with a pipe.tables and shoot him.]]
* Similar to above, in ''Series/ChicagoPD'', Officer Kim Burgess, who's pregnant with her partner's child, goes into a crime scene alone to rescue a teenage sex trafficking victim from being murdered by a violent pimp. [[spoiler: She gets assaulted for her effort and, while she's able to shoot the pimp dead in self-defense, miscarries the baby as a result]].
* In the pilot second episode of ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', the short-lived 2000 Creator/{{ABC}} series ''Series/{{Wonderland}}'', a pregnant Margaret is beaten so severely doctor gets stabbed in the stomach with a syringe by a mental patient.
* ''Series/{{Underground}}'': [[spoiler:Rosalee]], due to continuing her{{Domestic Abuse}}r husband that she miscarries.slave-rescuing work while heavily pregnant, is endangered more than once. The father, [[spoiler:Noah]], is furious when he finds this out.
** Amy is once kidnapped while
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E25BodyParts Body Parts]]" Keiko O'Brien is badly injured in a shuttle accident, and Dr. Bashir is forced to transplant the
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E11TheDarknessAndTheLight The Darkness and the Light]]" a
* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', one of Sgt. Wu's Filipino friends gets attacked by an aswang, which nearly kills her fetus while she
* In ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', [[spoiler: Tara]] is kidnapped in the second season. When one of the kidnappers tries to kick her in the stomach, she begs him not to because she is pregnant. He stops and hits her in the face instead.
* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' has [[spoiler: Jane]] helping a teenage witness survive while trapped in a warehouse with a hitman. She is far from delicate and survives many perilous situations while pregnant, but [[spoiler: Jane later loses the
* ''Series/{{Underground}}'': [[spoiler:Rosalee]], due to continuing her
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* ''Containment'' features a nine-months-pregnant teenager who is trapped in the cordoned off section of the city with the virus that kills people within 48 hours.
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* ''Containment'' features a nine-months-pregnant teenager who is trapped in the cordoned off section The second season of the city ''Series/VeronicaMars'' starts with the virus a bus crash that kills people within 48 hours.everyone on board except for [[spoiler: Meg Manning]] who's later discovered to be pregnant. [[spoiler: She later succumbs to her injuries, but they're able to save the baby.]]
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* The second season of ''Series/VeronicaMars'' starts with a bus crash that kills everyone on board except for [[spoiler: Meg Manning]] who's later discovered to be pregnant. [[spoiler: She later succumbs to her injuries, but they're able to save the baby.]]
* In the ''Marple'' episode "The Blue Geranium", an adaptation of the short story from ''Literature/TheThirteenProblems'', a six-months-pregnant woman is strangled...and that isn't even the primary mystery!
* In one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit,'' where Creator/MartinShort plays the villain of the week, it's revealed that one character is not her child's mother at all. [[spoiler:She assaulted a woman very close to giving birth, and cut the unborn fetus out of her body to steal it, killing her in the process. The child is returned to his grieving father by the end of the episode.]]
* In the fourth season finale of ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'', the BigBad of the season attacks Cecile (Who temporarily gained psychic powers and was using them to help defeat him), while she is close to giving birth. Thankfully, he is stopped before he can cause any significant damage.
* The average SoapOpera is bound to put at least a third of their heroines through varying versions of this. ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'''s Emily was even kidnapped and was off-screen for several months to make allowances for the actress's maternity leave, being found just in time for the delivery.
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': In "The Dead Hand", Det. Mazur (who has just learned that she is pregnant) is one of the detectives in the squad room when a woman with a bomb walks in and threatens to blow the place up. Angie, knowing that Mazur is pregnant, arranges for her and Lucas to be released to investigate the woman's case. Mazur is later ashamed that she accepted so readily and left Angie to face the danger alone.
* ''Series/MiamiVice'': Crockett's second wife Caitlin is six weeks pregnant at the time of [[CartwrightCurse her murder]]. Crockett doesn't find out about the pregnancy until her autopsy.
* In the ''Marple'' episode "The Blue Geranium", an adaptation of the short story from ''Literature/TheThirteenProblems'', a six-months-pregnant woman is strangled...and that isn't even the primary mystery!
* In one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit,'' where Creator/MartinShort plays the villain of the week, it's revealed that one character is not her child's mother at all. [[spoiler:She assaulted a woman very close to giving birth, and cut the unborn fetus out of her body to steal it, killing her in the process. The child is returned to his grieving father by the end of the episode.]]
* In the fourth season finale of ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'', the BigBad of the season attacks Cecile (Who temporarily gained psychic powers and was using them to help defeat him), while she is close to giving birth. Thankfully, he is stopped before he can cause any significant damage.
* The average SoapOpera is bound to put at least a third of their heroines through varying versions of this. ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'''s Emily was even kidnapped and was off-screen for several months to make allowances for the actress's maternity leave, being found just in time for the delivery.
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': In "The Dead Hand", Det. Mazur (who has just learned that she is pregnant) is one of the detectives in the squad room when a woman with a bomb walks in and threatens to blow the place up. Angie, knowing that Mazur is pregnant, arranges for her and Lucas to be released to investigate the woman's case. Mazur is later ashamed that she accepted so readily and left Angie to face the danger alone.
* ''Series/MiamiVice'': Crockett's second wife Caitlin is six weeks pregnant at the time of [[CartwrightCurse her murder]]. Crockett doesn't find out about the pregnancy until her autopsy.
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* The second season of ''Series/VeronicaMars'' starts with a bus crash that kills everyone on board except for [[spoiler: Meg Manning]] who's later discovered ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': Aiel woman [[spoiler:Tigraine]], while full term, manages to be pregnant. [[spoiler: fight multiple men before being stabbed in the side. She later succumbs nonetheless gives birth to her injuries, but they're able to save the baby.]]
* In the ''Marple'' episode "The Blue Geranium", an adaptation of the short story from ''Literature/TheThirteenProblems'', a six-months-pregnant womanson [[spoiler:(Rand)]], who is strangled...and that isn't even the primary mystery!
* In one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit,'' where Creator/MartinShort plays the villain of the week, it's revealed that one character is not her child's mother at all. [[spoiler:She assaulted a woman very close to giving birth, and cut the unborn fetus out of her body to steal it, killing her in the process. The child is returned to his grieving father by the end of the episode.]]
* In the fourth season finale of ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'', the BigBad of the season attacks Cecile (Who temporarily gained psychic powers and was using them to help defeat him), while she is close to giving birth. Thankfully, he is stoppedunharmed, before he can cause any significant damage.
* The average SoapOpera is bound to put at least a third of their heroines through varying versions of this. ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'''s Emily was even kidnapped and was off-screen for several months to make allowances for the actress's maternity leave, being found just in time for the delivery.
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': In "The Dead Hand", Det. Mazur (who has just learned that she is pregnant) is one of the detectives in the squad room when a woman with a bomb walks in and threatens to blow the place up. Angie, knowing that Mazur is pregnant, arranges for her and Lucas to be released to investigate the woman's case. Mazur is later ashamed that she accepted so readily and left Angie to face the danger alone.
* ''Series/MiamiVice'': Crockett's second wife Caitlin is six weeks pregnant at the time of [[CartwrightCurse her murder]]. Crockett doesn't find out about the pregnancy until her autopsy.dying.
* In the ''Marple'' episode "The Blue Geranium", an adaptation of the short story from ''Literature/TheThirteenProblems'', a six-months-pregnant woman
* In one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit,'' where Creator/MartinShort plays the villain of the week, it's revealed that one character is not her child's mother at all. [[spoiler:She assaulted a woman very close to giving birth, and cut the unborn fetus out of her body to steal it, killing her in the process. The child is returned to his grieving father by the end of the episode.]]
* In the fourth season finale of ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'', the BigBad of the season attacks Cecile (Who temporarily gained psychic powers and was using them to help defeat him), while she is close to giving birth. Thankfully, he is stopped
* The average SoapOpera is bound to put at least a third of their heroines through varying versions of this. ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'''s Emily was even kidnapped and was off-screen for several months to make allowances for the actress's maternity leave, being found just in time for the delivery.
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': In "The Dead Hand", Det. Mazur (who has just learned that she is pregnant) is one of the detectives in the squad room when a woman with a bomb walks in and threatens to blow the place up. Angie, knowing that Mazur is pregnant, arranges for her and Lucas to be released to investigate the woman's case. Mazur is later ashamed that she accepted so readily and left Angie to face the danger alone.
* ''Series/MiamiVice'': Crockett's second wife Caitlin is six weeks pregnant at the time of [[CartwrightCurse her murder]]. Crockett doesn't find out about the pregnancy until her autopsy.
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* An episode of ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'' had the team investigating a mass shooting at a diner. One of the victims is an employee who's discovered to be pregnant in her autopsy. The shooting is initially thought to be a mob hit [[spoiler:until they discover the employee hadn't told her parents about her pregnancy and find out the diner's owner, also the baby's father, shot everyone starting with her.]]
* In a ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode based on the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Levy Chandra Levy]] case, it's revealed that the Levy {{Expy}} was pregnant and both refusing to have an abortion as well as threatening to go public, which would have destroyed the politician's marriage and reputation. [[spoiler: It turned out his WIFE hired a hitman to kill the girl in order to kill two birds with one stone -- get rid of her and frame her husband]].
* Riley in ''Series/Sense8'' has several flashbacks throughout the first season where she relives the tragic car accident that took her husband's life while she was in labor. She had to have her baby in a turned upside down car, during a snow storm, with her husband's corpse lay next to her. [[spoiler:The baby then died of exposure to the Icelandic winter while Riley was trying to hike them to safety.]]
* ''{{Series/Underground}}'': [[spoiler:Rosalee]], due to continuing her slave-rescuing work while heavily pregnant, is endangered more than once. The father, [[spoiler:Noah]], is furious when he finds this out.
* ''Series/TheBarrier'':
** [[spoiler:The pregnant mistress of a minister who died in a suspicious accident]] has a pregnancy complication while preparing to go on the run from the authorities. This results in the protagonists moving her from her apartment to theirs rather than taking her to the hospital. While in her new temporary hiding place, she spots the photo of a little girl who lives in the appartement. This, combined with the scare of losing her own child, results in her spilling out the secret because of which she's at risk for a SheKnowsTooMuch death.
** [[spoiler:Manuela, who is in a relationship with her employer's son,]] catches the deadly virus that going around after being established to be in an early stage of pregnancy.
* ''Series/TheRookie2018'': Angela's kidnapped to Guatemala in the Season 4 opener while six months pregnant. This is somewhat subverted as her kidnapper doesn't want to harm her (or more specifically her unborn baby) and provides her with great medical care and her own personal home as her captivity placement (to have her avoid stress in her pregnancy). However, the entire point of her plan is to exact revenge on Angela by taking her baby and raising the child as her own, disposing of Angela as soon as the baby is born.
* ''Series/MidnightSun2016'': Jenny-Ann, who's nearly full term, is put in harm's way multiple times. First she's knocked against a table on her belly when a fight breaks out near her (but thankfully the baby's fine). Later she's targeted for death with her child by the killer, but is rescued by the Sami.
* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': Aiel woman [[spoiler:Tigraine]], while full term, manages to fight multiple men before being stabbed in the side. She nonetheless gives birth to her son [[spoiler:(Rand)]], who is unharmed, before dying.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'':
** 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 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.
** Ana Lucia was a cop who got shot in the line of duty which caused her to miscarry her unborn child. Once she recovers and is back on patrol she hunts down the man responsible and kills him, her last words to him being "I was pregnant".
* ''Series/KeepBreathing'': Liv is stranded in the Canadian wilderness with no one to help and facing the perils which this brings when in the early months of pregnancy. The most dire situation is when Liv falls into a crevice where she gets trapped, then falls down a mountain and goes in the river on a log where she nearly drowns.
* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': After it turns out Rowan's pregnant by Ciprien, Lasher tries to use her baby as a "doorway" into the world so he won't remain as a spirit anymore.
* In a ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode based on the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Levy Chandra Levy]] case, it's revealed that the Levy {{Expy}} was pregnant and both refusing to have an abortion as well as threatening to go public, which would have destroyed the politician's marriage and reputation. [[spoiler: It turned out his WIFE hired a hitman to kill the girl in order to kill two birds with one stone -- get rid of her and frame her husband]].
* Riley in ''Series/Sense8'' has several flashbacks throughout the first season where she relives the tragic car accident that took her husband's life while she was in labor. She had to have her baby in a turned upside down car, during a snow storm, with her husband's corpse lay next to her. [[spoiler:The baby then died of exposure to the Icelandic winter while Riley was trying to hike them to safety.]]
* ''{{Series/Underground}}'': [[spoiler:Rosalee]], due to continuing her slave-rescuing work while heavily pregnant, is endangered more than once. The father, [[spoiler:Noah]], is furious when he finds this out.
* ''Series/TheBarrier'':
** [[spoiler:The pregnant mistress of a minister who died in a suspicious accident]] has a pregnancy complication while preparing to go on the run from the authorities. This results in the protagonists moving her from her apartment to theirs rather than taking her to the hospital. While in her new temporary hiding place, she spots the photo of a little girl who lives in the appartement. This, combined with the scare of losing her own child, results in her spilling out the secret because of which she's at risk for a SheKnowsTooMuch death.
** [[spoiler:Manuela, who is in a relationship with her employer's son,]] catches the deadly virus that going around after being established to be in an early stage of pregnancy.
* ''Series/TheRookie2018'': Angela's kidnapped to Guatemala in the Season 4 opener while six months pregnant. This is somewhat subverted as her kidnapper doesn't want to harm her (or more specifically her unborn baby) and provides her with great medical care and her own personal home as her captivity placement (to have her avoid stress in her pregnancy). However, the entire point of her plan is to exact revenge on Angela by taking her baby and raising the child as her own, disposing of Angela as soon as the baby is born.
* ''Series/MidnightSun2016'': Jenny-Ann, who's nearly full term, is put in harm's way multiple times. First she's knocked against a table on her belly when a fight breaks out near her (but thankfully the baby's fine). Later she's targeted for death with her child by the killer, but is rescued by the Sami.
* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': Aiel woman [[spoiler:Tigraine]], while full term, manages to fight multiple men before being stabbed in the side. She nonetheless gives birth to her son [[spoiler:(Rand)]], who is unharmed, before dying.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'':
** 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 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.
** Ana Lucia was a cop who got shot in the line of duty which caused her to miscarry her unborn child. Once she recovers and is back on patrol she hunts down the man responsible and kills him, her last words to him being "I was pregnant".
* ''Series/KeepBreathing'': Liv is stranded in the Canadian wilderness with no one to help and facing the perils which this brings when in the early months of pregnancy. The most dire situation is when Liv falls into a crevice where she gets trapped, then falls down a mountain and goes in the river on a log where she nearly drowns.
* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': After it turns out Rowan's pregnant by Ciprien, Lasher tries to use her baby as a "doorway" into the world so he won't remain as a spirit anymore.
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* Literature/DelicateCondition: Anna has a stalker. After a break-in, she and husband Dex move out of the city and to a friend's house and hire a bodyguard. However, she is terrorized throughout her pregnancy. Right after she goes into labor, she and Dex get into a car crash. [[spoiler:He ends up dying of his injuries, but she manages to crawl out of their overturned car]].
* At the beginning of ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'', protagonist Fawn has left her home to avoid being shamed for her unwed pregnancy. Then an Eldritch Abomination ground-rips (tears the life-force out of) her unborn child. Things do get better for her, but she has one hell of a woobie-fied start.
** Invoked at the climax of ''Horizon'' by Fawn herself when she, once again newly pregnant and aware of how much [[EldritchAbomination Malices]] desire the grounds of developing unborn children, charges out from cover to bait a flying Malice into range of a field-modified Sharing Crossbow Bolt.
* At the beginning of ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'', protagonist Fawn has left her home to avoid being shamed for her unwed pregnancy. Then an Eldritch Abomination ground-rips (tears the life-force out of) her unborn child. Things do get better for her, but she has one hell of a woobie-fied start.
** Invoked at the climax of ''Horizon'' by Fawn herself when she, once again newly pregnant and aware of how much [[EldritchAbomination Malices]] desire the grounds of developing unborn children, charges out from cover to bait a flying Malice into range of a field-modified Sharing Crossbow Bolt.
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* Literature/DelicateCondition: In the bodice-ripper romance novel ''And Gold Was Ours'', the heroine is abducted by her husband's enemies while 7 months pregnant. The stress of the ordeal sends her into premature labor, but she manages to deliver safely just as he rescues her.
* ''Literature/DelicateCondition'': Anna has a stalker. After a break-in, she and husband Dex move out of the city and to a friend's house and hire a bodyguard. However, she is terrorized throughout her pregnancy. Right after she goes into labor, she and Dex get into a car crash. [[spoiler:He ends up dying of his injuries, but she manages to crawl out of their overturnedcar]].
* At the beginning of ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'', protagonist Fawn has left her home to avoid being shamed for her unwed pregnancy. Then an Eldritch Abomination ground-rips (tears the life-force out of) her unborn child. Things do get better for her, but she has one hell of a woobie-fied start.
** Invoked at the climax of ''Horizon'' by Fawn herself when she, once again newly pregnant and aware of how much [[EldritchAbomination Malices]] desire the grounds of developing unborn children, charges out from cover to bait a flying Malice into range of a field-modified Sharing Crossbow Bolt.car]].
* ''Literature/DelicateCondition'': Anna has a stalker. After a break-in, she and husband Dex move out of the city and to a friend's house and hire a bodyguard. However, she is terrorized throughout her pregnancy. Right after she goes into labor, she and Dex get into a car crash. [[spoiler:He ends up dying of his injuries, but she manages to crawl out of their overturned
* At the beginning of ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'', protagonist Fawn has left her home to avoid being shamed for her unwed pregnancy. Then an Eldritch Abomination ground-rips (tears the life-force out of) her unborn child. Things do get better for her, but she has one hell of a woobie-fied start.
** Invoked at the climax of ''Horizon'' by Fawn herself when she, once again newly pregnant and aware of how much [[EldritchAbomination Malices]] desire the grounds of developing unborn children, charges out from cover to bait a flying Malice into range of a field-modified Sharing Crossbow Bolt.
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** And ''Literature/IShallWearMidnight'' has a decidedly dark example as [[spoiler:Amber Petty is beaten by her father, causing a miscarriage/stillbirth.]]
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** And ''Literature/IShallWearMidnight'' has a decidedly dark example as [[spoiler:Amber Petty Petty]] is beaten by her father, causing a miscarriage/stillbirth.miscarriage/stillbirth.
* ''Literature/GoneGirl'': It's eventually revealed that Amy was pregnant when she disappeared... [[spoiler:[[FakePregnancy not.]] She was deliberately [[InvokedTrope invoking this trope]] to create media hysteria.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Amy:''' I knew the key to big-time coverage, round-the-clock, frantic, bloodlust never-ending ''Ellen Abbott'' coverage, would be the pregnancy. Amazing Amy is tempting as it is; Amazing Amy knocked up is irresistible. Americans like what is easy, and it's easy to like pregnant women; they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs.]]
* In ''Literature/{{The Hike|2023}}, [[spoiler:Helena]] finds out she's a few weeks pregnant shortly before beginning the titular hike. Consequently, she has to deal with morning sickness and feeling faint on top of the hike going horribly wrong, including facing natural dangers like storms and landslides, and being stalked by [[spoiler:drug traffickers]]. The others are concerned for [[spoiler:Helena]] when they find out she's pregnant, especially when she briefly passes out halfway up the mountain; Liz says she would never have made [[spoiler:Helena]] do the hike if she'd known about the pregnancy, but [[spoiler:Helena]] insists she'll be fine and that she chose to go on the hike even knowing she might be pregnant. [[spoiler:Helena]] realises she wants to keep the pregnancy despite her fear of parenthood when she feels protective over her unborn baby.
* ''Literature/GoneGirl'': It's eventually revealed that Amy was pregnant when she disappeared... [[spoiler:[[FakePregnancy not.]] She was deliberately [[InvokedTrope invoking this trope]] to create media hysteria.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Amy:''' I knew the key to big-time coverage, round-the-clock, frantic, bloodlust never-ending ''Ellen Abbott'' coverage, would be the pregnancy. Amazing Amy is tempting as it is; Amazing Amy knocked up is irresistible. Americans like what is easy, and it's easy to like pregnant women; they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs.]]
* In ''Literature/{{The Hike|2023}}, [[spoiler:Helena]] finds out she's a few weeks pregnant shortly before beginning the titular hike. Consequently, she has to deal with morning sickness and feeling faint on top of the hike going horribly wrong, including facing natural dangers like storms and landslides, and being stalked by [[spoiler:drug traffickers]]. The others are concerned for [[spoiler:Helena]] when they find out she's pregnant, especially when she briefly passes out halfway up the mountain; Liz says she would never have made [[spoiler:Helena]] do the hike if she'd known about the pregnancy, but [[spoiler:Helena]] insists she'll be fine and that she chose to go on the hike even knowing she might be pregnant. [[spoiler:Helena]] realises she wants to keep the pregnancy despite her fear of parenthood when she feels protective over her unborn baby.
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* In the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' novel ''Barrayar'':
** Alys Vorpatril, while pregnant with the baby Ivan Vorpatril, is stranded in a besieged city held by a pretender desperately looking for distinguished hostages like Alys.
** Cordelia is attacked with a poisonous gas while pregnant. The aftereffects of the treatment that saved her life drive most of her son's life: Miles, the protagonist of most of the books, was dwarfed and crippled by the effects.
** Alys Vorpatril, while pregnant with the baby Ivan Vorpatril, is stranded in a besieged city held by a pretender desperately looking for distinguished hostages like Alys.
** Cordelia is attacked with a poisonous gas while pregnant. The aftereffects of the treatment that saved her life drive most of her son's life: Miles, the protagonist of most of the books, was dwarfed and crippled by the effects.
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* ''Literature/IHeardThatSongBefore'':
** Grace Carrington drowned in her swimming pool when she was seven and a half months pregnant; her unborn child died too. [[spoiler:It's later revealed her death was deliberately orchestrated]].
** In the''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' novel ''Barrayar'':
** Alys Vorpatril, while pregnant with the baby Ivan Vorpatril,climax, [[spoiler:Kay]], who is stranded in a besieged city her first trimester, is held at gunpoint by a pretender desperately looking for distinguished hostages like Alys.
** Cordeliathe villain. She is attacked with a poisonous gas fortunately unharmed.
* Celine Herondale from ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', committed suicide while pregnant. Theaftereffects of main villain cut open her belly and found the treatment that saved her life drive most of her son's life: Miles, the protagonist of most of the books, was dwarfed and crippled by the effects.baby alive. [[spoiler:That baby is Jace Herondale.]]
** Grace Carrington drowned in her swimming pool when she was seven and a half months pregnant; her unborn child died too. [[spoiler:It's later revealed her death was deliberately orchestrated]].
** In the
** Alys Vorpatril, while pregnant with the baby Ivan Vorpatril,
** Cordelia
* Celine Herondale from ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', committed suicide while pregnant. The
* ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'':
** At the beginning of the book, protagonist Fawn has left her home to avoid being shamed for her unwed pregnancy. Then an Eldritch Abomination ground-rips (tears the life-force out of) her unborn child. Things do get better for her, but she has one hell of a woobie-fied start.
** Invoked at the climax of ''Horizon'' by Fawn herself when she, once again newly pregnant and aware of how much [[EldritchAbomination Malices]] desire the grounds of developing unborn children, charges out from cover to bait a flying Malice into range of a field-modified Sharing Crossbow Bolt.
* In the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' novel ''Barrayar'':
** Alys Vorpatril, while pregnant with the baby Ivan Vorpatril, is stranded in a besieged city held by a pretender desperately looking for distinguished hostages like Alys.
** Cordelia is attacked with a poisonous gas while pregnant. The aftereffects of the treatment that saved her life drive most of her son's life: Miles, the protagonist of most of the books, was dwarfed and crippled by the effects.
** At the beginning of the book, protagonist Fawn has left her home to avoid being shamed for her unwed pregnancy. Then an Eldritch Abomination ground-rips (tears the life-force out of) her unborn child. Things do get better for her, but she has one hell of a woobie-fied start.
** Invoked at the climax of ''Horizon'' by Fawn herself when she, once again newly pregnant and aware of how much [[EldritchAbomination Malices]] desire the grounds of developing unborn children, charges out from cover to bait a flying Malice into range of a field-modified Sharing Crossbow Bolt.
* In the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' novel ''Barrayar'':
** Alys Vorpatril, while pregnant with the baby Ivan Vorpatril, is stranded in a besieged city held by a pretender desperately looking for distinguished hostages like Alys.
** Cordelia is attacked with a poisonous gas while pregnant. The aftereffects of the treatment that saved her life drive most of her son's life: Miles, the protagonist of most of the books, was dwarfed and crippled by the effects.
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* Celine Herondale from ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', committed suicide while pregnant. The main villain cut open her belly and found the baby alive. [[spoiler:That baby is Jace Herondale.]]
* ''Literature/GoneGirl'': It's eventually revealed that Amy was pregnant when she disappeared... [[spoiler:[[FakePregnancy not.]] She was deliberately [[InvokedTrope invoking this trope]] to create media hysteria.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Amy:''' I knew the key to big-time coverage, round-the-clock, frantic, bloodlust never-ending ''Ellen Abbott'' coverage, would be the pregnancy. Amazing Amy is tempting as it is; Amazing Amy knocked up is irresistible. Americans like what is easy, and it's easy to like pregnant women; they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs.]]
* ''Literature/GoneGirl'': It's eventually revealed that Amy was pregnant when she disappeared... [[spoiler:[[FakePregnancy not.]] She was deliberately [[InvokedTrope invoking this trope]] to create media hysteria.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Amy:''' I knew the key to big-time coverage, round-the-clock, frantic, bloodlust never-ending ''Ellen Abbott'' coverage, would be the pregnancy. Amazing Amy is tempting as it is; Amazing Amy knocked up is irresistible. Americans like what is easy, and it's easy to like pregnant women; they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs.]]
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* In the bodice-ripper romance novel ''And Gold Was Ours'', the heroine is abducted by her husband's enemies while 7 months pregnant. The stress of the ordeal sends her into premature labor, but she manages to deliver safely just as he rescues her.
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* ''Literature/IHeardThatSongBefore'':
** Grace Carrington drowned in her swimming pool when she was seven and a half months pregnant; her unborn child died too. [[spoiler:It's later revealed her death was deliberately orchestrated]].
** In the climax, [[spoiler:Kay]], who is in her first trimester, is held at gunpoint by the villain. She is fortunately unharmed.
** Grace Carrington drowned in her swimming pool when she was seven and a half months pregnant; her unborn child died too. [[spoiler:It's later revealed her death was deliberately orchestrated]].
** In the climax, [[spoiler:Kay]], who is in her first trimester, is held at gunpoint by the villain. She is fortunately unharmed.
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* An accidental version occurs in ''Literature/OutOfTheDust'', when a freak accident leads to the protagonist's heavily pregnant mother suffering third-degree burns over most of her body. She manages to survive, horribly injured and in agony, long enough to have the baby, but [[DeathByChildbirth dies during the birth]]. The child, a boy, dies shortly thereafter.
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* An accidental version occurs in ''Literature/OutOfTheDust'', when when, in a freak accident leads to the accident,the protagonist's heavily pregnant mother is splashed with burning kerosene and is immediately engulfed in flames, suffering third-degree burns over most of her body. She manages to survive, horribly injured disfigured and in agony, long enough to have the baby, but [[DeathByChildbirth dies during the birth]]. The child, a boy, dies shortly thereafter.
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* 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 standing inside it to clean it, causing her legs to be caught in the machinery) just hours after learning she was pregnant. Bard ended up losing both of her legs but survived, and her baby was born healthy seven months later, having miraculously suffered no ill effects from his mother's ordeal.
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* 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 was accidentally activated while she was standing inside it to clean it, causing her legs to be caught in the machinery) just hours after learning she was pregnant. Bard ended up losing both of her legs but survived, and her baby was born healthy seven months later, having miraculously suffered no ill effects from his mother's ordeal.
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* The ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5045990/1/It-All-Came-Tumbling-Down It All Came Tumbling Down]]" features Kara becoming pregnant while she and Lee are being held captive by the Cylons, with the two managing to escape only to become separated, Lee [[spoiler:being discovered by the ''Pegasus'']] while Kara is retrieved by ''Galactica''. She spends most of her pregnancy in a coma but safe, but as she is about to give birth, she is nearly abducted by Cavil and D'Anna, only to be [[BigDamnHeroes saved by a marine private and Colonel Tigh]].
