I've just deleted the Only Fools And Horses example because A) the baby was planned, so it wasn't convenient for the characters, and B) it was supposed to be the season finale, so it wouldn't have made much difference to the writers either. I mention this because I don't really know many of the other examples, and if people consider Cassandra to have had a convenient miscarriage, there may be a misconception that this trope applies to any miscarriage.