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** In [[Literature/BooksOfKings 2nd Kings]], a Shunnamite woman who offers hospitality to Elisha the prophet tells him that she can't get pregnant, and her husband is old. Elisha tells the woman that in a year she will have a child to bear. She tells him, “No, my lord, man of God, do not lie to your servant.” But true to his word, God gives the woman a child to bear within that year.
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* In the ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'' Clare gets pregnant [[spoiler:after Henry has a vasectomy, by having sex with an early version of Henry who traveled from before his surgery]].
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* In the ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'' Clare gets pregnant [[spoiler:after Henry has a vasectomy, by having sex with an early version of Henry who traveled from before his surgery]].
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** In ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', the character Nicole was shot and told that she would never be able to have children due to internal scarring. Lo and behold, a few years later Nicole is impregnated by EJ. [[spoiler: Which then turned into a ConvenientMiscarriage]]
*** A few years later, Nicole would go on to again become pregnant by EJ, which she considered a "miracle" due to the established unlikelihood that she could get pregnant. [[spoiler: But this baby, a boy, was stillborn.]]
*** Chloe was also told that it was very unlikely she could ever have children, due to the combined effects of surviving leukemia and a severe poisoning. Then, after surviving a plunge in an elevator, she was found to not only be basically unharmed, but also pregnant.
*** A few years later, Nicole would go on to again become pregnant by EJ, which she considered a "miracle" due to the established unlikelihood that she could get pregnant. [[spoiler: But this baby, a boy, was stillborn.]]
*** Chloe was also told that it was very unlikely she could ever have children, due to the combined effects of surviving leukemia and a severe poisoning. Then, after surviving a plunge in an elevator, she was found to not only be basically unharmed, but also pregnant.
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* In ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', the character Nicole was shot and told that she would never be able to have children due to internal scarring. Lo and behold, a few years later Nicole is impregnated by EJ. [[spoiler: Which then turned into a ConvenientMiscarriage]]
** A few years later, Nicole would go on to again become pregnant by EJ, which she considered a "miracle" due to the established unlikelihood that she could get pregnant. [[spoiler: But this baby, a boy, was stillborn.]]
** Chloe was also told that it was very unlikely she could ever have children, due to the combined effects of surviving leukemia and a severe poisoning. Then, after surviving a plunge in an elevator, she was found to not only be basically unharmed, but also pregnant.
** A few years later, Nicole would go on to again become pregnant by EJ, which she considered a "miracle" due to the established unlikelihood that she could get pregnant. [[spoiler: But this baby, a boy, was stillborn.]]
** Chloe was also told that it was very unlikely she could ever have children, due to the combined effects of surviving leukemia and a severe poisoning. Then, after surviving a plunge in an elevator, she was found to not only be basically unharmed, but also pregnant.
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* ''Film/{{Starman}}'': After he and Jenny made love on the train Starman proclaims "I gave you a baby tonight." Jenny says that this is impossible because she is incapable of having a child. Starman explains that he used his powers to alleviate this.
* In ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', [[spoiler: Abe finds out that Liz is pregnant with Hellboy's children. Later, Liz is seen going through about four or five pregnancy tests, on account of the pregnancy]] being physically impossible for several reasons.
* ''Film/{{Starman}}'': After he and Jenny made love on the train Starman proclaims "I gave you a baby tonight." Jenny says that this is impossible because she is incapable of having a child. Starman explains that he used his powers to alleviate this.
* In ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', [[spoiler: Abe finds out that Liz is pregnant with Hellboy's children. Later, Liz is seen going through about four or five pregnancy tests, on account of the pregnancy]] being physically impossible for several reasons.
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* ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned1960'' (from the sci-fi novel ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos'' by Creator/JohnWyndham). Aliens impregnate every woman of child-bearing age in a small English town. Initial reactions range from joy (from a previously childless couple) to suspicion (from a husband who's been away at sea) to the incredulous reaction from a teenage virgin.
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* The Czech films ''Film/DividedWeFall'' and ''Film/LittleOtik'' both in a sense follow this trope and subvert it. Both couples in both films are infertile (in both cases [[spoiler: it seems it is HIS fault, not hers]]), and both couples get around nature to create a child, either a real one - [[spoiler: by using someone else to impregnate the wife]] (''Divided We Fall'') or a monstrous one, [[spoiler: by using a piece of wood carved into the rough shape of a child as a doll, which then comes to life and starts to devour the household]] (''Little Otik''). In each case, it is the neighbours who are forced to suspend their disbelief at the "fact" the wife is pregnant, rather than the couple themselves, who collude in trying to bring a child into the world.
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* A really interesting example in the French-Canadian film ''Familia'': teenage Marguerite learns she is pregnant,
* In ''Film/HannahAndHerSisters'', Mickey is diagnosed as infertile years before the
* In ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', [[spoiler: Abe finds out that Liz is pregnant with Hellboy's children. Later, Liz is seen going through about four or five pregnancy tests, on account of the pregnancy]] being physically impossible for several reasons.
* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' uses this in the most horrifying way imaginable: [[spoiler: Even though she is unable to bear children, Elizabeth finds out that she is indeed pregnant, but with an alien abomination. And so she performs an emergency surgery on herself while conscious in order to remove the creature from her womb]].
* ''Film/{{Starman}}'': After he and Jenny made love on the train Starman proclaims "I gave you a baby tonight." Jenny says that this is impossible because she is incapable of having a child. Starman explains that he used his powers to alleviate this.
* ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned1960'' (from the sci-fi novel ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos'' by Creator/JohnWyndham). Aliens impregnate every woman of child-bearing age in a small English town. Initial reactions range from joy (from a previously childless couple) to suspicion (from a husband who's been away at sea) to the incredulous reaction from a teenage virgin.
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-->'''Elektra Luxx''': I can't be pregnant.
-->'''Doctor''': Are you a virgin?
-->'''Elektra Luxx''': No.
-->'''Doctor''': Then you can be pregnant.
* A really interesting example in the French-Canadian film ''Familia'': teenage Marguerite learns she is pregnant, ''but she's never had sex.'' Though not really religious, she begins to wonder if this is a second virgin birth. [[spoiler: She eventually learns that someone slipped her a date-rape drug at a party; she thought she had just been really drunk.]]
* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' uses this in the most horrifying way imaginable: [[spoiler: Even though she is unable to bear children, Elizabeth finds out that she is indeed pregnant, but with an alien abomination. And so she performs an emergency surgery on herself while conscious in order to remove the creature from her womb]].
* In ''Film/HannahAndHerSisters'', Mickey is diagnosed as infertile years before the events in the film but by the end [[spoiler: his new wife Holly is pregnant.]]
* In ''FacingTheGiants'', a man finds he is incapable of getting his wife pregnant. After this whole plot line where he is extremely religious, his wife gets another
-->'''Doctor''': Are you a virgin?
-->'''Elektra Luxx''': No.
-->'''Doctor''': Then you can be pregnant.
* A really interesting example in the French-Canadian film ''Familia'': teenage Marguerite learns she is pregnant, ''but she's never had sex.'' Though not really religious, she begins to wonder if this is a second virgin birth. [[spoiler: She eventually learns that someone slipped her a date-rape drug at a party; she thought she had just been really drunk.]]
* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' uses this in the most horrifying way imaginable: [[spoiler: Even though she is unable to bear children, Elizabeth finds out that she is indeed pregnant, but with an alien abomination. And so she performs an emergency surgery on herself while conscious in order to remove the creature from her womb]].
* In ''Film/HannahAndHerSisters'', Mickey is diagnosed as infertile years before the events in the film but by the end [[spoiler: his new wife Holly is pregnant.]]
* In ''FacingTheGiants'', a man finds he is incapable of getting his wife pregnant. After this whole plot line where he is extremely religious, his wife gets another
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-->'''Elektra Luxx''': I can't be pregnant.
-->'''Doctor''':pregnant.\\
'''Doctor''': Are you avirgin?
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'''Elektra Luxx''':No.
-->'''Doctor''':No.\\
'''Doctor''': Then you can bepregnant.
* A really interesting example in the French-Canadian film ''Familia'': teenage Marguerite learns she is pregnant, ''but she's never had sex.'' Though not really religious, she begins to wonder if this is a second virgin birth. [[spoiler: She eventually learns that someone slipped her a date-rape drug at a party; she thought she had just been really drunk.]]
* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' uses this in the most horrifying way imaginable: [[spoiler: Even though she is unable to bear children, Elizabeth finds out that she is indeed pregnant, but with an alien abomination. And so she performs an emergency surgery on herself while conscious in order to remove the creature from her womb]].
* In ''Film/HannahAndHerSisters'', Mickey is diagnosed as infertile years before the events in the film but by the end [[spoiler: his new wife Holly ispregnant.]]
* In ''FacingTheGiants'', a man finds he is incapable of getting his wife pregnant. After this whole plot line where he is extremely religious, his wife gets another
-->'''Doctor''':
'''Doctor''': Are you a
-->'''Elektra
'''Elektra Luxx''':
-->'''Doctor''':
'''Doctor''': Then you can be
* A really interesting example in the French-Canadian film ''Familia'': teenage Marguerite learns she is pregnant, ''but she's never had sex.'' Though not really religious, she begins to wonder if this is a second virgin birth. [[spoiler: She eventually learns that someone slipped her a date-rape drug at a party; she thought she had just been really drunk.]]
* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' uses this in the most horrifying way imaginable: [[spoiler: Even though she is unable to bear children, Elizabeth finds out that she is indeed pregnant, but with an alien abomination. And so she performs an emergency surgery on herself while conscious in order to remove the creature from her womb]].
* In ''Film/HannahAndHerSisters'', Mickey is diagnosed as infertile years before the events in the film but by the end [[spoiler: his new wife Holly is
* In ''FacingTheGiants'', a man finds he is incapable of getting his wife pregnant. After this whole plot line where he is extremely religious, his wife gets another
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* Janette Oke's ''Prairie Romance'' series, starting with ''Love Comes Softly'', develops a huge clan of children under the care and guidance of main character Marty and her husband (Davis?). Several books down the line, after Oke had "officially" finished the series, the series starts back up with Marty realizing that she is again pregnant... and thinking it beyond embarrassing that her daughter will be younger than several of her grandchildren.
* In the ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'' Clare gets pregnant [[spoiler:after Henry has a vasectomy, by having sex with an early version of Henry who traveled from before his surgery]].
* In ''Monsieur Malaussène'' by Daniel Pennac, a nun whose chastity is beyond doubt becomes pregnant. There are a number of pregnancies in this novel; this being Pennac, they're not straightforward.
* In Heinrich von Kleist's 1808 novella, ''The Marquise of O'', the titular Marquise finds herself mysteriously pregnant and places an announcement in the newspaper demanding the unknown father of her child identify himself so she can marry him. It turns out [[spoiler:the father is a Russian count who ravished her while she was unconscious. They do indeed marry and eventually come to have a happy marriage.]]
* In the ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'' Clare gets pregnant [[spoiler:after Henry has a vasectomy, by having sex with an early version of Henry who traveled from before his surgery]].
* In ''Monsieur Malaussène'' by Daniel Pennac, a nun whose chastity is beyond doubt becomes pregnant. There are a number of pregnancies in this novel; this being Pennac, they're not straightforward.
* In Heinrich von Kleist's 1808 novella, ''The Marquise of O'', the titular Marquise finds herself mysteriously pregnant and places an announcement in the newspaper demanding the unknown father of her child identify himself so she can marry him. It turns out [[spoiler:the father is a Russian count who ravished her while she was unconscious. They do indeed marry and eventually come to have a happy marriage.]]
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* Janette Oke's ''Prairie Romance'' series, starting with ''Love Comes Softly'', develops a huge clan In one of children under the care and guidance of main character Marty and Creator/EdwardRutherfurd's multi-generation historical novels, a young woman is told by her husband (Davis?). Several books down the line, after Oke had "officially" finished the series, the series starts back up with Marty realizing doctor that she is again pregnant... can't have children, and thinking it beyond embarrassing reluctantly backs off on a budding relationship with a young man, believing he'll want kids more than he does, her. A third party informs the young man of this, so he tells her that her daughter will be younger than several ''he's'' sterile himself. Within a year of her grandchildren.
* In the ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'' Clare gets pregnant [[spoiler:after Henry has a vasectomy, by having sex with an early version of Henry who traveled from before his surgery]].
* In ''Monsieur Malaussène'' by Daniel Pennac, a nun whose chastity is beyond doubt becomes pregnant. There are a number of pregnancies in this novel; this being Pennac,their marriage, they're not straightforward.
expecting, because ''he'' was lying to sidestep her fear that he'd reject an infertile woman, and her ''doctor'' had bungled her diagnosis.
*In Heinrich von Kleist's 1808 novella, ''The Marquise of O'', There is a Swedish short story in which a man who thinks he's sterile is in the titular Marquise finds herself mysteriously habit of killing his girlfriends when they become pregnant and places an announcement in because he can't handle the newspaper demanding the unknown father of her child identify himself so she can marry fact that they have apparently cheated on him. It turns isn't until after several murders that he finds out [[spoiler:the father is a Russian count who ravished her while she was unconscious. They do indeed marry and eventually come to have a happy marriage.]]it's actually his twin brother who's sterile, not him.
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* In the ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'' Clare gets pregnant [[spoiler:after Henry has a vasectomy, by having sex with an early version of Henry who traveled from before his surgery]].
* In ''Monsieur Malaussène'' by Daniel Pennac, a nun whose chastity is beyond doubt becomes pregnant. There are a number of pregnancies in this novel; this being Pennac,
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* In Creator/JohnVarley's ''[[Literature/GaeaTrilogy Titan]]'', the female members of the spaceship crew all turn out to be pregnant after they're released into Gaea's interior. This trope especially applies to April Polo, a lesbian who's never had sex with a man.
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* In ''Literature/BreakingDawn'' Bella has this moment on realizing she had missed her period, considering her husband was a vampire and thus shouldn't have been able to impregnate her. (Let's leave aside the part where there are many other reasons besides his vampness that he shouldn't have been able to impregnate anyone.)
* In the ''{{Literature/Deverry}}'' novels, Rhys' first wife is cast aside for being barren. Her mother-in-law arranges for her to remarry to a widower with several children from a previous marriage (and as such would not need to care as to whether or not his new wife could provide an heir). Shortly afterwards, she surprises everyone by getting pregnant, and later gives birth to a healthy boy. It seems that ''she'' wasn't the sterile one in her previous marriage...
* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/{{Friday}}'', the titular protagonist is sterile by permanent (but reversible) surgery, and is therefore extremely surprised to discover that she's expecting during a long interstellar voyage. It turns out that [[spoiler:her employers pulled a fast one on her, implanting the embryo she was supposed to deliver to a wealthy couple in her rather than keeping it in a stasis capsule. She concludes from this that they plan to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill her]] at the end of her mission, and decides to jump ship early. She ends up raising the child as her own.]]
* Creator/JohnVarley's''[[Literature/GaeaTrilogy Titan]]'', ''Literature/GaeaTrilogy'':
** In ''Titan'', the female members of the spaceship crew all turn out to be pregnant after they're released into Gaea's interior. This trope especially applies to April Polo, a lesbian who's never had sex with a man.
* In the ''{{Literature/Deverry}}'' novels, Rhys' first wife is cast aside for being barren. Her mother-in-law arranges for her to remarry to a widower with several children from a previous marriage (and as such would not need to care as to whether or not his new wife could provide an heir). Shortly afterwards, she surprises everyone by getting pregnant, and later gives birth to a healthy boy. It seems that ''she'' wasn't the sterile one in her previous marriage...
* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/{{Friday}}'', the titular protagonist is sterile by permanent (but reversible) surgery, and is therefore extremely surprised to discover that she's expecting during a long interstellar voyage. It turns out that [[spoiler:her employers pulled a fast one on her, implanting the embryo she was supposed to deliver to a wealthy couple in her rather than keeping it in a stasis capsule. She concludes from this that they plan to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill her]] at the end of her mission, and decides to jump ship early. She ends up raising the child as her own.]]
* Creator/JohnVarley's
** In ''Titan'', the female members of the spaceship crew all turn out to be pregnant after they're released into Gaea's interior. This trope especially applies to April Polo, a lesbian who's never had sex with a man.
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* There is a Swedish short story in which a man who thinks he's sterile is in the habit of killing his girlfriends when they become pregnant because he can't handle the fact that they have apparently cheated on him. It isn't until after several murders that he finds out it's actually his twin brother who's sterile, not him.
* In Jacqueline Carrey's ''Santa Olivia'', a genetically modified man overhears scientists discussing his apparent sterility. After he escapes, he meets a woman and they have sex. Lo and behold...she gets pregnant with his daughter.
* In the {{Literature/Deverry}} novels, Rhys' first wife is cast aside for being barren. Her mother-in-law arranges for her to remarry to a widower with several children from a previous marriage (and as such would not need to care as to whether or not his new wife could provide an heir). Shortly afterwards, she surprises everyone by getting pregnant, and later gives birth to a healthy boy. It seems that ''she'' wasn't the sterile one in her previous marriage...
* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/{{Friday}}'', the titular protagonist is sterile by permanent (but reversible) surgery, and is therefore extremely surprised to discover that she's expecting during a long interstellar voyage. It turns out that [[spoiler:her employers pulled a fast one on her, implanting the embryo she was supposed to deliver to a wealthy couple in her rather than keeping it in a stasis capsule. She concludes from this that they plan to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill her]] at the end of her mission, and decides to jump ship early. She ends up raising the child as her own.]]
* In ''Literature/BreakingDawn'' Bella has this moment on realizing she had missed her period, considering her husband was a vampire and thus shouldn't have been able to impregnate her. (Let's leave aside the part where there are many other reasons besides his vampness that he shouldn't have been able to impregnate anyone.)
* In Jacqueline Carrey's ''Santa Olivia'', a genetically modified man overhears scientists discussing his apparent sterility. After he escapes, he meets a woman and they have sex. Lo and behold...she gets pregnant with his daughter.
* In the {{Literature/Deverry}} novels, Rhys' first wife is cast aside for being barren. Her mother-in-law arranges for her to remarry to a widower with several children from a previous marriage (and as such would not need to care as to whether or not his new wife could provide an heir). Shortly afterwards, she surprises everyone by getting pregnant, and later gives birth to a healthy boy. It seems that ''she'' wasn't the sterile one in her previous marriage...
* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/{{Friday}}'', the titular protagonist is sterile by permanent (but reversible) surgery, and is therefore extremely surprised to discover that she's expecting during a long interstellar voyage. It turns out that [[spoiler:her employers pulled a fast one on her, implanting the embryo she was supposed to deliver to a wealthy couple in her rather than keeping it in a stasis capsule. She concludes from this that they plan to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill her]] at the end of her mission, and decides to jump ship early. She ends up raising the child as her own.]]
* In ''Literature/BreakingDawn'' Bella has this moment on realizing she had missed her period, considering her husband was a vampire and thus shouldn't have been able to impregnate her. (Let's leave aside the part where there are many other reasons besides his vampness that he shouldn't have been able to impregnate anyone.)
* In Heinrich von Kleist's 1808 novella, ''The Marquise of O'', the titular Marquise finds herself mysteriously pregnant and places an announcement in the newspaper demanding the unknown father of her child identify himself so she can marry him. It turns out [[spoiler:the father is a Russian count who ravished her while she was unconscious. They do indeed marry and eventually come to have a happy marriage.]]
* In ''Monsieur Malaussène'' by Daniel Pennac, a nun whose chastity is beyond doubt becomes pregnant. There are a number of pregnancies in this novel; this being Pennac, they're not straightforward.
* In ''Monsieur Malaussène'' by Daniel Pennac, a nun whose chastity is beyond doubt becomes pregnant. There are a number of pregnancies in this novel; this being Pennac, they're not straightforward.
* Janette Oke's ''Prairie Romance'' series, starting with ''Love Comes Softly'', develops a huge clan of children under the care and guidance of main character Marty and her husband (Davis?). Several books down the line, after Oke had "officially" finished the series, the series starts back up with Marty realizing that she is again pregnant... and thinking it beyond embarrassing that her daughter will be younger than several of her grandchildren.
* In Jacqueline Carrey's ''Santa Olivia'', a genetically modified man overhears scientists discussing his apparent sterility. After he escapes, he meets a woman and they have sex. Lo and behold...she gets pregnant with his daughter.
* In Jacqueline Carrey's ''Santa Olivia'', a genetically modified man overhears scientists discussing his apparent sterility. After he escapes, he meets a woman and they have sex. Lo and behold...she gets pregnant with his daughter.
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* In one of Creator/EdwardRutherfurd's multi-generation historical novels, a young woman is told by her doctor that she can't have children, and reluctantly backs off on a budding relationship with a young man, believing he'll want kids more than he does, her. A third party informs the young man of this, so he tells her that ''he's'' sterile himself. Within a year of their marriage, they're expecting, because ''he'' was lying to sidestep her fear that he'd reject an infertile woman, and her ''doctor'' had bungled her diagnosis.
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* In one of Creator/EdwardRutherfurd's multi-generation historical novels, the ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'' Clare gets pregnant [[spoiler:after Henry has a young woman is told vasectomy, by her doctor that she can't have children, and reluctantly backs off on a budding relationship having sex with a young man, believing he'll want kids more than he does, her. A third party informs the young man an early version of this, so he tells her that ''he's'' sterile himself. Within a year of their marriage, they're expecting, because ''he'' was lying to sidestep her fear that he'd reject an infertile woman, and her ''doctor'' had bungled her diagnosis.Henry who traveled from before his surgery]].
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* Charlotte Ross' [[RealitySubtext real life pregnancy]] was written into the 11th season of ''Series/NYPDBlue'', despite her character having been established as infertile due to complications from a teen pregnancy. This was a rather mild retcon, revealed as her doctors telling her it would be ''almost'' impossible for her to get pregnant.
* Delenn's pregnancy in ''Series/BabylonFive'' was thought to be impossible, due to her hybrid biology. WordOfGod states that Sheridan was aware a child ''was'' possible, but wasn't sure if the future had been changed, and, if it had been changed, if the circumstances that led to the child were still possible. Time travel is tricky that way.
* Charlotte Ross' [[RealitySubtext real life pregnancy]] was written into the 11th season of ''Series/NYPDBlue'', despite her character having been established as infertile due to complications from a teen pregnancy. This was a rather mild retcon, revealed as her doctors telling her it would be ''almost'' impossible for her to get pregnant.
* Delenn's pregnancy in ''Series/BabylonFive'' was thought to be impossible, due to her hybrid biology. WordOfGod states that Sheridan was aware a child ''was'' possible, but wasn't sure if the future had been changed, and, if it had been changed, if the circumstances that led to the child were still possible. Time travel is tricky that way.
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* Charlotte Ross' [[RealitySubtext real life pregnancy]] was written into the 11th season of ''Series/NYPDBlue'', despite her character having been established as infertile due to complications from a teen pregnancy. This was a rather mild retcon, revealed as her doctors telling her it would be ''almost'' impossible for her to get pregnant.
* Delenn's pregnancy in ''Series/BabylonFive'' was thought to be impossible, due to her hybrid biology. WordOfGod states that Sheridan was aware a child ''was'' possible, but wasn't sure if the future had been changed, and, if it had been changed, if the circumstances that led to the child were still possible. Time travel is tricky that way.
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* Season two of ''Too Close For Comfort'' focused on Muriel's pregnancy, Henry and Muriel having been established as in their late 40s/early 50s, with two adult children already.
* Soap opera example: ''Series/AllMyChildren'''s Opal Gardner (who'd already had three adult children) found herself pregnant (after, of course, thinking she was starting menopause) by new husband (and resident Scrooge) Palmer Cortlandt. Palmer immediately accused her of infidelity because he'd been rendered sterile years ago "by a polo accident." Medical tests later proved that his plumbing still worked.
* Soap opera example: ''Series/AllMyChildren'''s Opal Gardner (who'd already had three adult children) found herself pregnant (after, of course, thinking she was starting menopause) by new husband (and resident Scrooge) Palmer Cortlandt. Palmer immediately accused her of infidelity because he'd been rendered sterile years ago "by a polo accident." Medical tests later proved that his plumbing still worked.
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** ''Series/AllMyChildren'''s Opal Gardner (who'd already had three adult children) found herself pregnant (after, of course, thinking she was starting menopause) by new husband (and resident Scrooge) Palmer Cortlandt. Palmer immediately accused her of infidelity because he'd been rendered sterile years ago "by a polo accident." Medical tests later proved that his plumbing still worked.
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* In ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'' , the character Nicole was shot and told that she would never be able to have children due to internal scarring. Lo and behold, a few years later Nicole is impregnated by EJ. [[spoiler: Which then turned into a ConvenientMiscarriage]]
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* On ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Connor, the [[{{Dhampyr}} human offspring]] of a fling between the vampires Angel and Darla. Vampires were canonically stated to be infertile. Darla apparently responds by going on a world tour searching for someone who can tell her what's going on and/or kill the mystically protected child, leaving corpses in her disappointed wake.
* Delenn's pregnancy in ''Series/BabylonFive'' was thought to be impossible, due to her hybrid biology. WordOfGod states that Sheridan was aware a child ''was'' possible, but wasn't sure if the future had been changed, and, if it had been changed, if the circumstances that led to the child were still possible. Time travel is tricky that way.
* Played with in ''Series/{{Becker}}''. After performing a fertility test on a male patient, Becker tells his (female) employee that "Your sperm count is higher than his!" Said patient's wife ends up pregnant anyway.
-->'''Becker:''' You know what this means...\\
'''Patient:''' ...it's a miracle!\\
'''Becker:''' SureLetsGoWithThat.
* ''Series/CodeBlack'': A young woman, the first of her family to got to college, presents with pregnancy symptoms. The mother reacts badly and accuses the doctor of being racist. Then when the test confirm the diagnosis, the mother is angry at the girl, who insists she is a virgin. It turns out that sometimes it is zebras. [[spoiler:The girl has a rare brain tumor that produces the same protein that pregnancy tests look for. The girl wants to go back to being pregnant.]]
* ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' had a pregnancy scare storyline at the end of season 3-Sally is the one who believes she's at risk and asks the other girls to take a test as well as a control group. She then gets the tests mixed up, so when she finds out one of them is positive, she realizes it can be any of them. While they're waiting to go back and buy more tests, [[spoiler:Susan]] reveals that she just found out she's infertile. Towards the end, [[spoiler:Jane]]'s test comes back negative, which results in [[spoiler:Sally]] assuming it's her, and becoming deeply unhappy since it probably wrecks her chances with [[spoiler:Patrick]]. And then [[spoiler:Susan]] walks in with a positive test.
* In''Series/DaysOfOurLives'' , ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', the character Nicole was shot and told that she would never be able to have children due to internal scarring. Lo and behold, a few years later Nicole is impregnated by EJ. [[spoiler: Which then turned into a ConvenientMiscarriage]]
* On ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Connor, the [[{{Dhampyr}} human offspring]] of a fling between the vampires Angel and Darla. Vampires were canonically stated to be infertile. Darla apparently responds by going on a world tour searching for someone who can tell her what's going on and/or kill the mystically protected child, leaving corpses in her disappointed wake.
* Delenn's pregnancy in ''Series/BabylonFive'' was thought to be impossible, due to her hybrid biology. WordOfGod states that Sheridan was aware a child ''was'' possible, but wasn't sure if the future had been changed, and, if it had been changed, if the circumstances that led to the child were still possible. Time travel is tricky that way.
* Played with in ''Series/{{Becker}}''. After performing a fertility test on a male patient, Becker tells his (female) employee that "Your sperm count is higher than his!" Said patient's wife ends up pregnant anyway.
-->'''Becker:''' You know what this means...\\
'''Patient:''' ...it's a miracle!\\
'''Becker:''' SureLetsGoWithThat.
* ''Series/CodeBlack'': A young woman, the first of her family to got to college, presents with pregnancy symptoms. The mother reacts badly and accuses the doctor of being racist. Then when the test confirm the diagnosis, the mother is angry at the girl, who insists she is a virgin. It turns out that sometimes it is zebras. [[spoiler:The girl has a rare brain tumor that produces the same protein that pregnancy tests look for. The girl wants to go back to being pregnant.]]
* ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' had a pregnancy scare storyline at the end of season 3-Sally is the one who believes she's at risk and asks the other girls to take a test as well as a control group. She then gets the tests mixed up, so when she finds out one of them is positive, she realizes it can be any of them. While they're waiting to go back and buy more tests, [[spoiler:Susan]] reveals that she just found out she's infertile. Towards the end, [[spoiler:Jane]]'s test comes back negative, which results in [[spoiler:Sally]] assuming it's her, and becoming deeply unhappy since it probably wrecks her chances with [[spoiler:Patrick]]. And then [[spoiler:Susan]] walks in with a positive test.
* In
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* In the NBC show ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Dr. Cox's ex-wife, Jordan, became pregnant (as she was pregnant in real life). Since Dr. Cox had previously gotten a vasectomy, they addressed this - Dr. Cox asked if Jordan cheated on him shortly after she tested pregnant, and later when they told the rest of the staff about her pregnancy, he does a rant where he mentions his vasectomy didn't take. He and Jordan later get [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment revenge on the doctor who performed it]].
--->'''The Worthless Peons''': I want my baby-back (baby-back) baby-back (baby-back) baby-back (baby-back) baby-back, I want my baby-back (baby-back)...
--->'''Doctor''': Dear God. When do they say "ribs"?
--->'''Dr. Cox''': Never. They ''never'' say "ribs."
** ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' did the same thing with Sookie and Jackson when they wrote in Melissa [=McCarthy's=] pregnancy despite having an episode two seasons earlier where Jackson had a vasectomy that he didn't want. They retconned it by having Jackson say he lied about getting it since he hadn't wanted it in the first place, and that he thought Sookie would stay on her birth control pills to keep her skin looking fresh.
* A different take on it occurred in ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', when Xena was rather shocked to be pregnant - she hadn't had sex in ''ages''.
* The Korean couple (Jin and Sun) in ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Jin was sterile before he came to the island, which causes Sun to believe the baby was conceived during her extramarital affair before the plane crash. However, Juliet explains that male sperm count is five times normal on the island, and a sonogram shows that the baby was indeed conceived on the island.
** A particularly heartbreaking example, as pregnant women tend not to survive their pregnancy on the island-if the baby was conceived before Sun came to the island, she's fine, and if the baby is miraculously her husband's and conceived after their island-inspired reconciliation, she's going to die. [[TearJerker She's very happy with the result]].
* Scully in ''Series/TheXFiles'' got pregnant about four seasons after being diagnosed as infertile. Interestingly, the actress' real-life pregnancy had taken place, and been somewhat clumsily covered with big coats, sitting at desks, etc. about two years before the character was supposedly rendered infertile.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Ross was once described as a "medical marvel," as his parents' doctor had believed his mother was infertile prior to her pregnancy. This is also why Monica is TheUnfavorite to her parents -- Ross was their miracle baby, while Monica was just another kid.
* On ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Connor, the [[{{Dhampyr}} human offspring]] of a fling between the vampires Angel and Darla. Vampires were canonically stated to be infertile. Darla apparently responds by going on a world tour searching for someone who can tell her what's going on and/or kill the mystically protected child, leaving corpses in her disappointed wake.
* Sharon Watts in ''Series/{{Eastenders}}'' believed herself to be infertile after a botched abortion for years until she conceived a baby with her adoptive brother/husband Dennis, [[DownerEnding who was murdered]] a couple of episodes later.
--->'''The Worthless Peons''': I want my baby-back (baby-back) baby-back (baby-back) baby-back (baby-back) baby-back, I want my baby-back (baby-back)...
--->'''Doctor''': Dear God. When do they say "ribs"?
--->'''Dr. Cox''': Never. They ''never'' say "ribs."
** ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' did the same thing with Sookie and Jackson when they wrote in Melissa [=McCarthy's=] pregnancy despite having an episode two seasons earlier where Jackson had a vasectomy that he didn't want. They retconned it by having Jackson say he lied about getting it since he hadn't wanted it in the first place, and that he thought Sookie would stay on her birth control pills to keep her skin looking fresh.
* A different take on it occurred in ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', when Xena was rather shocked to be pregnant - she hadn't had sex in ''ages''.
* The Korean couple (Jin and Sun) in ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Jin was sterile before he came to the island, which causes Sun to believe the baby was conceived during her extramarital affair before the plane crash. However, Juliet explains that male sperm count is five times normal on the island, and a sonogram shows that the baby was indeed conceived on the island.
** A particularly heartbreaking example, as pregnant women tend not to survive their pregnancy on the island-if the baby was conceived before Sun came to the island, she's fine, and if the baby is miraculously her husband's and conceived after their island-inspired reconciliation, she's going to die. [[TearJerker She's very happy with the result]].
* Scully in ''Series/TheXFiles'' got pregnant about four seasons after being diagnosed as infertile. Interestingly, the actress' real-life pregnancy had taken place, and been somewhat clumsily covered with big coats, sitting at desks, etc. about two years before the character was supposedly rendered infertile.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Ross was once described as a "medical marvel," as his parents' doctor had believed his mother was infertile prior to her pregnancy. This is also why Monica is TheUnfavorite to her parents -- Ross was their miracle baby, while Monica was just another kid.
* On ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Connor, the [[{{Dhampyr}} human offspring]] of a fling between the vampires Angel and Darla. Vampires were canonically stated to be infertile. Darla apparently responds by going on a world tour searching for someone who can tell her what's going on and/or kill the mystically protected child, leaving corpses in her disappointed wake.
* Sharon Watts in ''Series/{{Eastenders}}'' believed herself to be infertile after a botched abortion for years until she conceived a baby with her adoptive brother/husband Dennis, [[DownerEnding who was murdered]] a couple of episodes later.
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* In the NBC show ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Dr. Cox's ex-wife, Jordan, became ''Series/DefyingGravity'' has an astronaut candidate, Zoe, getting pregnant (as even though the father, Donner, had a vasectomy. She gets an abortion because she was pregnant wanted to stay in real life). Since Dr. Cox had previously gotten a vasectomy, they addressed this - Dr. Cox asked if Jordan cheated on him shortly after she tested pregnant, the program and later when they told go to space. It's implied that the rest of the staff about her pregnancy, he does a rant where he mentions his vasectomy didn't take. He and Jordan later get [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment revenge on the doctor who performed it]].
--->'''The Worthless Peons''': I want my baby-back (baby-back) baby-back (baby-back) baby-back (baby-back) baby-back, I want my baby-back (baby-back)...
--->'''Doctor''': Dear God. When do they say "ribs"?
--->'''Dr. Cox''': Never. They ''never'' say "ribs."
** ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' did the same thing with Sookie and Jackson when they wrote in Melissa [=McCarthy's=] pregnancy despite having an episode two seasons earlier where Jackson had a vasectomy that he didn't want. They retconned it by having Jackson say he lied about getting it since he hadn't wanted it in the first place, and that he thought Sookie would stay on her birth control pills to keep her skin looking fresh.
* A differenttake on it occurred in ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', when Xena was rather shocked to be pregnant - she hadn't had sex in ''ages''.
* The Korean couple (Jin and Sun) in ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Jin was sterile before he came to the island, which causes Sun to believe the baby was conceived during her extramarital affair before the plane crash. However, Juliet explains that male sperm count is five times normal on the island, and a sonogram shows that the baby was indeed conceived on the island.
** A particularly heartbreaking example, as pregnant women tend not to survive their pregnancy on the island-if the baby was conceived before Sun came to the island, she's fine, and if the baby is miraculously her husband's and conceived after their island-inspired reconciliation, she's going to die. [[TearJerker She's very happy with the result]].
* Scully in ''Series/TheXFiles'' got pregnant about four seasons after being diagnosed as infertile. Interestingly, the actress' real-life pregnancy had taken place, and been somewhat clumsily covered with big coats, sitting at desks, etc. about two years before the character was supposedly rendered infertile.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Ross was once described as a "medical marvel," as his parents' doctor had believed his mother was infertile prior to her pregnancy. This is also why Monica is TheUnfavorite to her parents -- Ross was their miracle baby, while Monica was just another kid.
* On ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Connor, the [[{{Dhampyr}} human offspring]] of a fling between the vampires Angel and Darla. Vampires were canonically stated to be infertile. Darla apparently responds by going on a world tour searching for someone who can tell her what's going on and/or kill the mystically protected child, leaving corpses in her disappointed wake.
* Sharon Watts in ''Series/{{Eastenders}}'' believed herself to be infertile after a botched abortion for years until she conceived a baby with her adoptive brother/husband Dennis, [[DownerEnding who was murdered]] a couple of episodes later.because [[spoiler:of Alpha]].
--->'''The Worthless Peons''': I want my baby-back (baby-back) baby-back (baby-back) baby-back (baby-back) baby-back, I want my baby-back (baby-back)...
--->'''Doctor''': Dear God. When do they say "ribs"?
--->'''Dr. Cox''': Never. They ''never'' say "ribs."
** ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' did the same thing with Sookie and Jackson when they wrote in Melissa [=McCarthy's=] pregnancy despite having an episode two seasons earlier where Jackson had a vasectomy that he didn't want. They retconned it by having Jackson say he lied about getting it since he hadn't wanted it in the first place, and that he thought Sookie would stay on her birth control pills to keep her skin looking fresh.
* A different
* The Korean couple (Jin and Sun) in ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Jin was sterile before he came to the island, which causes Sun to believe the baby was conceived during her extramarital affair before the plane crash. However, Juliet explains that male sperm count is five times normal on the island, and a sonogram shows that the baby was indeed conceived on the island.
** A particularly heartbreaking example, as pregnant women tend not to survive their pregnancy on the island-if the baby was conceived before Sun came to the island, she's fine, and if the baby is miraculously her husband's and conceived after their island-inspired reconciliation, she's going to die. [[TearJerker She's very happy with the result]].
* Scully in ''Series/TheXFiles'' got pregnant about four seasons after being diagnosed as infertile. Interestingly, the actress' real-life pregnancy had taken place, and been somewhat clumsily covered with big coats, sitting at desks, etc. about two years before the character was supposedly rendered infertile.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Ross was once described as a "medical marvel," as his parents' doctor had believed his mother was infertile prior to her pregnancy. This is also why Monica is TheUnfavorite to her parents -- Ross was their miracle baby, while Monica was just another kid.
* On ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Connor, the [[{{Dhampyr}} human offspring]] of a fling between the vampires Angel and Darla. Vampires were canonically stated to be infertile. Darla apparently responds by going on a world tour searching for someone who can tell her what's going on and/or kill the mystically protected child, leaving corpses in her disappointed wake.
* Sharon Watts in ''Series/{{Eastenders}}'' believed herself to be infertile after a botched abortion for years until she conceived a baby with her adoptive brother/husband Dennis, [[DownerEnding who was murdered]] a couple of episodes later.
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* On ''Series/{{DocMartin}}'' a patient told Martin she couldn't be pregnant and he started staring out the window, when she asked why he said, "The last time this happened there were 3 wise men and a shinning star".
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* On ''Series/{{DocMartin}}'' ''Series/DocMartin'' a patient told Martin she couldn't be pregnant and he started staring out the window, when she asked why he said, "The last time this happened there were 3 wise men and a shinning star".star".
* Cora of ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' gets unexpectedly pregnant despite being far enough into menopause that her periods are irregular: "But I haven't been pregnant in eighteen years!"
* Sharon Watts in ''Series/EastEnders'' believed herself to be infertile after a botched abortion for years until she conceived a baby with her adoptive brother/husband Dennis, [[DownerEnding who was murdered]] a couple of episodes later.
* On ''Series/{{Extant}}'', Molly reacts incredulously to the news of her pregnancy, not only because she'd been deemed completely infertile, but she was alone in space during when conception would have occurred.
* In ''[[Series/FlashForward2009 FlashForward]]'', Janis sees in her flash-forward that she is pregnant. She can't believe this as she is a lesbian. Eventually she does become pregnant by [[spoiler:having sex with Demetri]].
* ''Series/FridayNightLights'': Eric and Tammy Taylor are in their early 40s. Their only child, Julie, is half-way through high school. They're looking forward to having the house to themselves when she goes off to college in a couple of years. Then Tammy realizes she's pregnant. They're both very surprised having assumed Tammy was pre-menopausal.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Ross was once described as a "medical marvel", as his parents' doctor had believed his mother was infertile prior to her pregnancy. This is also why Monica is TheUnfavorite to her parents -- Ross was their miracle baby, while Monica was just another kid.
* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' did the same thing with Sookie and Jackson when they wrote in Melissa [=McCarthy's=] pregnancy despite having an episode two seasons earlier where Jackson had a vasectomy that he didn't want. They retconned it by having Jackson say he lied about getting it since he hadn't wanted it in the first place, and that he thought Sookie would stay on her birth control pills to keep her skin looking fresh.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': After Adalind tricks Nick into sleeping with her in order to strip him of his Grimm powers, she is shocked and appalled to discover that she's pregnant with his baby. This happens almost immediately after she spent most of the previous season pregnant with her first born Diana. However, it is a WrittenInInfirmity as the actress Claire Coffee was now pregnant in real life. The arc then centered around the two archenemies having to put their differences aside to keep their potentially superpowered half-grimm/ half hexenbeist baby safe.
* Cora of ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' gets unexpectedly pregnant despite being far enough into menopause that her periods are irregular: "But I haven't been pregnant in eighteen years!"
* Sharon Watts in ''Series/EastEnders'' believed herself to be infertile after a botched abortion for years until she conceived a baby with her adoptive brother/husband Dennis, [[DownerEnding who was murdered]] a couple of episodes later.
* On ''Series/{{Extant}}'', Molly reacts incredulously to the news of her pregnancy, not only because she'd been deemed completely infertile, but she was alone in space during when conception would have occurred.
* In ''[[Series/FlashForward2009 FlashForward]]'', Janis sees in her flash-forward that she is pregnant. She can't believe this as she is a lesbian. Eventually she does become pregnant by [[spoiler:having sex with Demetri]].
* ''Series/FridayNightLights'': Eric and Tammy Taylor are in their early 40s. Their only child, Julie, is half-way through high school. They're looking forward to having the house to themselves when she goes off to college in a couple of years. Then Tammy realizes she's pregnant. They're both very surprised having assumed Tammy was pre-menopausal.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Ross was once described as a "medical marvel", as his parents' doctor had believed his mother was infertile prior to her pregnancy. This is also why Monica is TheUnfavorite to her parents -- Ross was their miracle baby, while Monica was just another kid.
* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' did the same thing with Sookie and Jackson when they wrote in Melissa [=McCarthy's=] pregnancy despite having an episode two seasons earlier where Jackson had a vasectomy that he didn't want. They retconned it by having Jackson say he lied about getting it since he hadn't wanted it in the first place, and that he thought Sookie would stay on her birth control pills to keep her skin looking fresh.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': After Adalind tricks Nick into sleeping with her in order to strip him of his Grimm powers, she is shocked and appalled to discover that she's pregnant with his baby. This happens almost immediately after she spent most of the previous season pregnant with her first born Diana. However, it is a WrittenInInfirmity as the actress Claire Coffee was now pregnant in real life. The arc then centered around the two archenemies having to put their differences aside to keep their potentially superpowered half-grimm/ half hexenbeist baby safe.
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--->'''House''': You're pregnant.
--->'''Girl''': But I can't --
--->'''House''': Are you a virgin?
--->'''Girl''': No.
--->'''House''': You're pregnant.
** Played with in the episode "Joy to the World," where a woman is pregnant even though she and her fiance are waiting till marriage, and she swears she hasn't cheated. A skeptical House runs a DNA test and returns dumbfounded to tell them that there actually is no father, and the woman is the first ever case of human parthogenesis, an incredible phenomenon... except she's not, she just cheated on her fiance, and he's lying so that they'll be bowled over with elation and gratitude and get him a Christmas present, which he bet Wilson he could get a patient to do.
--->'''Girl''': But I can't --
--->'''House''': Are you a virgin?
--->'''Girl''': No.
--->'''House''': You're pregnant.
** Played with in the episode "Joy to the World," where a woman is pregnant even though she and her fiance are waiting till marriage, and she swears she hasn't cheated. A skeptical House runs a DNA test and returns dumbfounded to tell them that there actually is no father, and the woman is the first ever case of human parthogenesis, an incredible phenomenon... except she's not, she just cheated on her fiance, and he's lying so that they'll be bowled over with elation and gratitude and get him a Christmas present, which he bet Wilson he could get a patient to do.
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--->'''House''': You're pregnant.
--->'''Girl''':pregnant.\\
'''Girl''': But I can't--
--->'''House''':--\\
'''House''': Are you avirgin?
--->'''Girl''': No.
--->'''House''':virgin?\\
'''Girl''': No.\\
'''House''': You're pregnant.
** Played with inthe episode "Joy to the World," World", where a woman is pregnant even though she and her fiance fiancé are waiting till marriage, and she swears she hasn't cheated. A skeptical House runs a DNA test and returns dumbfounded to tell them that there actually is no father, and the woman is the first ever case of human parthogenesis, parthenogenesis, an incredible phenomenon... except she's not, she just cheated on her fiance, fiancé, and he's lying so that they'll be bowled over with elation and gratitude and get him a Christmas present, which he bet Wilson he could get a patient to do.
--->'''Girl''':
'''Girl''': But I can't
--->'''House''':
'''House''': Are you a
--->'''Girl''': No.
--->'''House''':
'''Girl''': No.\\
'''House''': You're pregnant.
** Played with in
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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. HalfHumanHybrid B'Elanna Torres is surprised when this happens with her human boyfriend Tom Paris, as the odds against a Klingon woman and a human man having children naturally is so high[[note]] when we see the first such hybrid in ''TNG'' it had a human mother and Klingon father, which was also seen as surprising but not impossible[[/note]] (why she hadn't considered that being half-''human'' might make you more interfertile with a human partner is left unsaid). The actress playing B'Elanna had become pregnant several years earlier, which was hidden by having her WrenchWench character wear a work smock with tools in the top pocket.
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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. HalfHumanHybrid B'Elanna Torres ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'': Jane, a virgin, is rather predictably surprised when this happens with she learns she's pregnant after her human boyfriend Tom Paris, as gynecologist got her and another patient – who wanted to get pregnant – mixed up before performing procedures.
* The Korean couple (Jin and Sun) in ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Jin was sterile before he came to theodds against a Klingon woman island, which causes Sun to believe the baby was conceived during her extramarital affair before the plane crash. However, Juliet explains that male sperm count is five times normal on the island, and a human man having children sonogram shows that the baby was indeed conceived on the island.
** A particularly heartbreaking example, as pregnant women tend not to survive their pregnancy on the island-if the baby was conceived before Sun came to the island, she's fine, and if the baby is miraculously her husband's and conceived after their island-inspired reconciliation, she's going to die. [[TearJerker She's very happy with the result]].
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' subverted this when a deceased relative's will stipulates that any family member that conceives a new child will get a $500,000 inheritance. Al and Peg naturallyis so high[[note]] when we see the first such hybrid in ''TNG'' it had a human mother and Klingon father, which was also seen as surprising go for it, but not impossible[[/note]] (why she hadn't considered Peg doesn't ''want'' to get pregnant. She's just happy that being half-''human'' might make you more interfertile Al ''wants'' to have sex with a human partner is left unsaid). The actress playing B'Elanna had become pregnant several years earlier, which was hidden by having her WrenchWench character wear for once, so she secretly takes birth control so they'll keep trying. Al finds out eventually and gets his revenge by faking Peg's home pregnancy test for a work smock positive result. Peg goes into this mode, but Al twists the knife further by saying another relative beat them to the inheritance and reminds her of everything she went through with tools in the top pocket.Kelly and Bud (morning sickness, weight gain and diaper changes). Peg effectively GoesMadFromTheRevelation, while Al is gleeful.
* The Korean couple (Jin and Sun) in ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Jin was sterile before he came to the
** A particularly heartbreaking example, as pregnant women tend not to survive their pregnancy on the island-if the baby was conceived before Sun came to the island, she's fine, and if the baby is miraculously her husband's and conceived after their island-inspired reconciliation, she's going to die. [[TearJerker She's very happy with the result]].
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' subverted this when a deceased relative's will stipulates that any family member that conceives a new child will get a $500,000 inheritance. Al and Peg naturally
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** A ridiculous example was this teenage girl who brought this guy onto the SallyJesseRaphael show because she was ''convinced'' he was the father, because apparently he was the only guy she'd slept with. He was relieved when it turned out not to be his child, but she was still really confused. Turns out that she'd been regularly sleeping with her step-brother, and she was under the impression that she couldn't get pregnant by him. He was the father, of course.
* Claudia Black, who played Vala Mal Doran on ''Series/StargateSG1'', got pregnant with her first child shortly into fliming for the ninth season. She was reportedly worried about being taken off the show or ruining the plot.. fortunately the creators were already planning a storyline involving her being pregnant. As a result, Vala ended up lost in the Ori's home galaxy for much of Season 9, and when she came back in the last few episodes, was revealed [[spoiler: to be pregnant with a [[DarkMessiah child conceived by the Ori]] so as to [[BatmanGambit get around the rules barring them from interfering with an Ancient-protected galaxy.]] ]] When Vala is finally able to communicate with the SGC, she is completely confused as to how she could be pregnant since, as she put it, "I did none of the necessary bits."
* Claudia Black, who played Vala Mal Doran on ''Series/StargateSG1'', got pregnant with her first child shortly into fliming for the ninth season. She was reportedly worried about being taken off the show or ruining the plot.. fortunately the creators were already planning a storyline involving her being pregnant. As a result, Vala ended up lost in the Ori's home galaxy for much of Season 9, and when she came back in the last few episodes, was revealed [[spoiler: to be pregnant with a [[DarkMessiah child conceived by the Ori]] so as to [[BatmanGambit get around the rules barring them from interfering with an Ancient-protected galaxy.]] ]] When Vala is finally able to communicate with the SGC, she is completely confused as to how she could be pregnant since, as she put it, "I did none of the necessary bits."
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** A ridiculous example was this teenage girl who brought this guy onto the SallyJesseRaphael Sally Jesse Raphael show because she was ''convinced'' he was the father, because apparently he was the only guy she'd slept with. He was relieved when it turned out not to be his child, but she was still really confused. Turns out that she'd been regularly sleeping with her step-brother, and she was under the impression that she couldn't get pregnant by him. He was the father, of course.
*Claudia Black, who played Vala Mal Doran on ''Series/StargateSG1'', got pregnant with her first child shortly Charlotte Ross' [[RealitySubtext real life pregnancy]] was written into fliming for the ninth season. She 11th season of ''Series/NYPDBlue'', despite her character having been established as infertile due to complications from a teen pregnancy. This was reportedly worried about being taken off the show or ruining the plot.. fortunately the creators were already planning a storyline involving her being pregnant. As a result, Vala ended up lost in the Ori's home galaxy for much of Season 9, and when she came back in the last few episodes, was rather mild retcon, revealed [[spoiler: as her doctors telling her it would be ''almost'' impossible for her to be pregnant with a [[DarkMessiah child conceived by the Ori]] so as to [[BatmanGambit get around the rules barring them from interfering with an Ancient-protected galaxy.]] ]] When Vala is finally able to communicate with the SGC, she is completely confused as to how she could be pregnant since, as she put it, "I did none of the necessary bits."pregnant.
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* ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' had a pregnancy scare storyline at the end of season 3-Sally is the one who believes she's at risk and asks the other girls to take a test as well as a control group. She then gets the tests mixed up, so when she finds out one of them is positive, she realizes it can be any of them. While they're waiting to go back and buy more tests, [[spoiler:Susan]] reveals that she just found out she's infertile. Towards the end, [[spoiler:Jane]]'s test comes back negative, which results in [[spoiler:Sally]] assuming it's her, and becoming deeply unhappy since it probably wrecks her chances with [[spoiler:Patrick]]. And then [[spoiler:Susan]] walks in with a positive test.
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* ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' In the NBC show ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Dr. Cox's ex-wife, Jordan, became pregnant (as she was pregnant in real life). Since Dr. Cox had previously gotten a pregnancy scare vasectomy, they addressed this - Dr. Cox asked if Jordan cheated on him shortly after she tested pregnant, and later when they told the rest of the staff about her pregnancy, he does a rant where he mentions his vasectomy didn't take. He and Jordan later get [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment revenge on the doctor who performed it]].
-->'''The Worthless Peons''': I want my baby-back (baby-back) baby-back (baby-back) baby-back (baby-back) baby-back, I want my baby-back (baby-back)…\\
'''Doctor''': Dear God. When do they say "ribs"?\\
'''Dr. Cox''': Never. They ''never'' say "ribs".
* Claudia Black, who played Vala Mal Doran on ''Series/StargateSG1'', got pregnant with her first child shortly into fliming for the ninth season. She was reportedly worried about being taken off the show or ruining the plot.. fortunately the creators were already planning a storylineat involving her being pregnant. As a result, Vala ended up lost in the end Ori's home galaxy for much of season 3-Sally is the one who believes she's at risk Season 9, and asks the other girls to take a test as well as a control group. She then gets the tests mixed up, so when she came back in the last few episodes, was revealed [[spoiler: to be pregnant with a [[DarkMessiah child conceived by the Ori]] so as to [[BatmanGambit get around the rules barring them from interfering with an Ancient-protected galaxy.]] ]] When Vala is finally able to communicate with the SGC, she is completely confused as to how she could be pregnant since, as she put it, "I did none of the necessary bits."
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' Commander Tucker (male!) becomes pregnant after discovering that the concepts of male and female are not universal, and he didn't know that what he was doing with an alien he thought was female was sex.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. HalfHumanHybrid B'Elanna Torres is surprised when this happens with her human boyfriend Tom Paris, as the odds against a Klingon woman and a human man having children naturally is so high[[note]] when we see the first such hybrid in ''TNG'' it had a human mother and Klingon father, which was also seen as surprising but not impossible[[/note]] (why she hadn't considered that being half-''human'' might make you more interfertile with a human partner is left unsaid). The actress playing B'Elanna had become pregnant several years earlier, which was hidden by having her WrenchWench character wear a work smock with tools in the top pocket.
* In ''Series/SugarRush'', Kim's mother Stella becomes pregnant after getting back together with Nathan, even though in the first series she told her lover that he had [[spoiler:had a vasectomy]].
* Season two of ''Too Close For Comfort'' focused on Muriel's pregnancy, Henry and Muriel having been established as in their late 40s/early 50s, with two adult children already.
* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', Klaus finds outone of them is positive, she realizes it can be any of them. While they're waiting to go back and buy more tests, [[spoiler:Susan]] reveals that [[spoiler: Hayley]] is pregnant after their one-night stand. Although vampires are established to be infertile, it turns that he's not because he's part werewolf.
* A different take on it occurred in ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', when Xena was rather shocked to be pregnant - shejust found out she's hadn't had sex in ''ages''.
* Scully in ''Series/TheXFiles'' got pregnant about four seasons after being diagnosed as infertile.Towards Interestingly, the end, [[spoiler:Jane]]'s test comes back negative, which results in [[spoiler:Sally]] assuming it's her, actress' real-life pregnancy had taken place, and becoming deeply unhappy since it probably wrecks her chances been somewhat clumsily covered with [[spoiler:Patrick]]. And then [[spoiler:Susan]] walks in with a positive test.big coats, sitting at desks, etc. about two years before the character was supposedly rendered infertile.
-->'''The Worthless Peons''': I want my baby-back (baby-back) baby-back (baby-back) baby-back (baby-back) baby-back, I want my baby-back (baby-back)…\\
'''Doctor''': Dear God. When do they say "ribs"?\\
'''Dr. Cox''': Never. They ''never'' say "ribs".
* Claudia Black, who played Vala Mal Doran on ''Series/StargateSG1'', got pregnant with her first child shortly into fliming for the ninth season. She was reportedly worried about being taken off the show or ruining the plot.. fortunately the creators were already planning a storyline
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' Commander Tucker (male!) becomes pregnant after discovering that the concepts of male and female are not universal, and he didn't know that what he was doing with an alien he thought was female was sex.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. HalfHumanHybrid B'Elanna Torres is surprised when this happens with her human boyfriend Tom Paris, as the odds against a Klingon woman and a human man having children naturally is so high[[note]] when we see the first such hybrid in ''TNG'' it had a human mother and Klingon father, which was also seen as surprising but not impossible[[/note]] (why she hadn't considered that being half-''human'' might make you more interfertile with a human partner is left unsaid). The actress playing B'Elanna had become pregnant several years earlier, which was hidden by having her WrenchWench character wear a work smock with tools in the top pocket.
* In ''Series/SugarRush'', Kim's mother Stella becomes pregnant after getting back together with Nathan, even though in the first series she told her lover that he had [[spoiler:had a vasectomy]].
* Season two of ''Too Close For Comfort'' focused on Muriel's pregnancy, Henry and Muriel having been established as in their late 40s/early 50s, with two adult children already.
* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', Klaus finds out
* A different take on it occurred in ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', when Xena was rather shocked to be pregnant - she
* Scully in ''Series/TheXFiles'' got pregnant about four seasons after being diagnosed as infertile.
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* Played with in ''Series/{{Becker}}''. After performing a fertility test on a male patient, Becker tells his (female) employee that "Your sperm count is higher than his!" Said patient's wife ends up pregnant anyway.
-->'''Becker:''' You know what this means...\\
'''Patient:''' ...it's a miracle!\\
'''Becker:''' SureLetsGoWithThat.
* In ''Series/SugarRush'', Kim's mother Stella becomes pregnant after getting back together with Nathan, even though in the first series she told her lover that he had [[spoiler:had a vasectomy]].
* In ''[[Series/FlashForward2009 FlashForward]]'', Janis sees in her flash-forward that she is pregnant. She can't believe this as she is a lesbian. Eventually she does become pregnant by [[spoiler:having sex with Demetri]].
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' subverted this when a deceased relative's will stipulates that any family member that conceives a new child will get a $500,000 inheritance. Al and Peg naturally go for it, but Peg doesn't ''want'' to get pregnant. She's just happy that Al ''wants'' to have sex with her for once, so she secretly takes birth control so they'll keep trying. Al finds out eventually and gets his revenge by faking Peg's home pregnancy test for a positive result. Peg goes into this mode, but Al twists the knife further by saying another relative beat them to the inheritance and reminds her of everything she went through with Kelly and Bud (morning sickness, weight gain and diaper changes). Peg effectively GoesMadFromTheRevelation, while Al is gleeful.
* Cora of ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' gets unexpectedly pregnant despite being far enough into menopause that her periods are irregular: "But I haven't been pregnant in eighteen years!"
* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', Klaus finds out that [[spoiler: Hayley]] is pregnant after their one-night stand. Although vampires are established to be infertile, it turns that he's not because he's part werewolf.
* On ''Series/{{Extant}}'', Molly reacts incredulously to the news of her pregnancy, not only because she'd been deemed completely infertile, but she was alone in space during when conception would have occurred.
* ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'': Jane, a virgin, is rather predictably surprised when she learns she's pregnant after her gynecologist got her and another patient – who wanted to get pregnant – mixed up before performing procedures.
* ''Series/DefyingGravity'' has an astronaut candidate, Zoe, getting pregnant even though the father, Donner, had a vasectomy. She gets an abortion because she wanted to stay in the program and go to space. It's implied that the vasectomy didn't take because [[spoiler:of Alpha]].
* ''Series/CodeBlack'' A young woman, the first of her family to got to college, presents with pregnancy symptoms. The mother reacts badly and accuses the doctor of being racist. Then when the test confirm the diagnoses, the mother is angry at the girl, who insists she is a virgin. It turns out that sometimes it is zebras. [[spoiler: The girl has a rare brain tumor that produces the same protein that pregnancy test look for. The girl wants to go back to being pregnant.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' Commander Tucker (male!) becomes pregnant after discovering that the concepts of male and female are not universal, and he didn't know that what he was doing with an alien he thought was female was sex.
* ''Series/FridayNightLights'': Eric and Tammy Taylor are in their early 40s. Their only child, Julie, is half-way through high school. They're looking forward to having the house to themselves when she goes off to college in a couple of years. Then Tammy realizes she's pregnant. They're both very surprised having assumed Tammy was pre-menopausal.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': After Adelind tricks Nick into sleeping with her in order to strip him of his Grimm powers, she is shocked and appalled to discover that she's pregnant with his baby. This happens almost immediately after she spent most of the previous season pregnant with her first born Diana. However, it is a WrittenInInfirmity as the actress Claire Coffee was now pregnant in real life. The arc then centered around the two archenemies having to put their differences aside to keep their potentially superpowered half-grimm/ half hexenbeist baby safe.
-->'''Becker:''' You know what this means...\\
'''Patient:''' ...it's a miracle!\\
'''Becker:''' SureLetsGoWithThat.
* In ''Series/SugarRush'', Kim's mother Stella becomes pregnant after getting back together with Nathan, even though in the first series she told her lover that he had [[spoiler:had a vasectomy]].
* In ''[[Series/FlashForward2009 FlashForward]]'', Janis sees in her flash-forward that she is pregnant. She can't believe this as she is a lesbian. Eventually she does become pregnant by [[spoiler:having sex with Demetri]].
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' subverted this when a deceased relative's will stipulates that any family member that conceives a new child will get a $500,000 inheritance. Al and Peg naturally go for it, but Peg doesn't ''want'' to get pregnant. She's just happy that Al ''wants'' to have sex with her for once, so she secretly takes birth control so they'll keep trying. Al finds out eventually and gets his revenge by faking Peg's home pregnancy test for a positive result. Peg goes into this mode, but Al twists the knife further by saying another relative beat them to the inheritance and reminds her of everything she went through with Kelly and Bud (morning sickness, weight gain and diaper changes). Peg effectively GoesMadFromTheRevelation, while Al is gleeful.
* Cora of ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' gets unexpectedly pregnant despite being far enough into menopause that her periods are irregular: "But I haven't been pregnant in eighteen years!"
* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', Klaus finds out that [[spoiler: Hayley]] is pregnant after their one-night stand. Although vampires are established to be infertile, it turns that he's not because he's part werewolf.
* On ''Series/{{Extant}}'', Molly reacts incredulously to the news of her pregnancy, not only because she'd been deemed completely infertile, but she was alone in space during when conception would have occurred.
* ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'': Jane, a virgin, is rather predictably surprised when she learns she's pregnant after her gynecologist got her and another patient – who wanted to get pregnant – mixed up before performing procedures.
* ''Series/DefyingGravity'' has an astronaut candidate, Zoe, getting pregnant even though the father, Donner, had a vasectomy. She gets an abortion because she wanted to stay in the program and go to space. It's implied that the vasectomy didn't take because [[spoiler:of Alpha]].
* ''Series/CodeBlack'' A young woman, the first of her family to got to college, presents with pregnancy symptoms. The mother reacts badly and accuses the doctor of being racist. Then when the test confirm the diagnoses, the mother is angry at the girl, who insists she is a virgin. It turns out that sometimes it is zebras. [[spoiler: The girl has a rare brain tumor that produces the same protein that pregnancy test look for. The girl wants to go back to being pregnant.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' Commander Tucker (male!) becomes pregnant after discovering that the concepts of male and female are not universal, and he didn't know that what he was doing with an alien he thought was female was sex.
* ''Series/FridayNightLights'': Eric and Tammy Taylor are in their early 40s. Their only child, Julie, is half-way through high school. They're looking forward to having the house to themselves when she goes off to college in a couple of years. Then Tammy realizes she's pregnant. They're both very surprised having assumed Tammy was pre-menopausal.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': After Adelind tricks Nick into sleeping with her in order to strip him of his Grimm powers, she is shocked and appalled to discover that she's pregnant with his baby. This happens almost immediately after she spent most of the previous season pregnant with her first born Diana. However, it is a WrittenInInfirmity as the actress Claire Coffee was now pregnant in real life. The arc then centered around the two archenemies having to put their differences aside to keep their potentially superpowered half-grimm/ half hexenbeist baby safe.
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* The final episode of Hanna-Barbera's 1970 prime time series ''WesternAnimation/WheresHuddles'' had a doctor's diagnosis making everyone think that Bubba--a ''male,'' mind you--was pregnant.
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* The final episode of Hanna-Barbera's 1970 prime time series ''WesternAnimation/WheresHuddles'' had a doctor's diagnosis making everyone think that Bubba--a ''male,'' ''male'', mind you--was pregnant.
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* In one of Creator/EdwardRutherfurd's multi-generation historical novels, a young woman is told by her doctor that she can't have children, and reluctantly backs off on a budding relationship with a young man, believing he'll want kids more than her. A third party informs the young man of this, so he informs her that ''he's'' sterile himself. Within a year of their marriage, they're expecting, because ''he'' was lying to sidestep her fear that he wouldn't want her, and her ''doctor'' had bungled her diagnosis.
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* In one of Creator/EdwardRutherfurd's multi-generation historical novels, a young woman is told by her doctor that she can't have children, and reluctantly backs off on a budding relationship with a young man, believing he'll want kids more than he does, her. A third party informs the young man of this, so he informs tells her that ''he's'' sterile himself. Within a year of their marriage, they're expecting, because ''he'' was lying to sidestep her fear that he wouldn't want her, he'd reject an infertile woman, and her ''doctor'' had bungled her diagnosis.
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* In one of Creator/EdwardRutherfurd's multi-generation historical novels, a young woman is told by her doctor that she can't have children, and reluctantly backs off on a budding relationship with a young man, believing he'll want kids more than her. A third party informs the young man of this, so he informs her that ''he's'' sterile himself. Within a year of their marriage, they're expecting, because ''he'' was lying to sidestep her fear that he wouldn't want her, and her ''doctor'' had bungled her diagnosis.
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* ComicBook/CarolDanvers from ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires'' is shocked when she is said she is pregnant: both she and her lover used protection, and he has been dead for longer than she has been pregnant.
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-->'''Vyvyan:''' Yeah, that's what ''she'' said! You just can't trust women, can you?
-->'''Vyvyan:''' Yeah, that's what ''she'' said! You just can't trust women, can you?
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-->'''Neil:''' But that's impossible!
-->'''Vyvyan:'''impossible!\\
'''Vyvyan:''' Yeah, that's what ''she'' said! You just can't trust women, can you?
-->'''Vyvyan:'''
'''Vyvyan:''' Yeah, that's what ''she'' said! You just can't trust women, can you?
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-->'''Patient:''' ...it's a miracle!
-->'''Becker:''' SureLetsGoWithThat.
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-->'''Becker:''' SureLetsGoWithThat.
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-->'''Becker:''' You know what this means...
-->'''Patient:''' ...means...\\
'''Patient:''' ...it's amiracle!
-->'''Becker:'''miracle!\\
'''Becker:''' SureLetsGoWithThat.
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'''Patient:''' ...it's a
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* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', Klaus finds out that [[spoiler: Hayley]] is pregnant after their OneNightStand. Although vampires are established to be infertile, it turns that he's not because he's part werewolf.
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* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', Klaus finds out that [[spoiler: Hayley]] is pregnant after their OneNightStand.one-night stand. Although vampires are established to be infertile, it turns that he's not because he's part werewolf.
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** Also with the now deceased Courtney on ''Series/GeneralHospital''. She became pregnant with Nikolas Cassadine's child miraculously after being rendered barren after a miscarriage with Jason Morgan's child, because of [[YouFailBiologyForever fuzzy medical reasons]]. It was the same story with Skye Quartermaine, but somehow she managed to conceive and birth a child with Lorenzo Alcazar.
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** Also with the now deceased Courtney on ''Series/GeneralHospital''. She became pregnant with Nikolas Cassadine's child miraculously after being rendered barren after a miscarriage with Jason Morgan's child, because of [[YouFailBiologyForever [[ArtisticLicenseBiology fuzzy medical reasons]]. It was the same story with Skye Quartermaine, but somehow she managed to conceive and birth a child with Lorenzo Alcazar.
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A woman comes to the doctor with her teenage daughter, who's complaining about an upset stomach. After the examination, the doc determines the girl is roughly four months pregnant. The women go berserk, claiming that it is completely impossible. After some failed attempts to explain, the doctor turns toward the window and starts looking out cautiously. "What's up, why are you ignoring us?" "Well, I once heard a case like this. There was a falling star and three rich guys came with expensive gifts. And there's no way I'm gonna miss it!"
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A woman comes to the doctor with her teenage daughter, who's complaining about an upset stomach. After the examination, the doc determines the girl is roughly four months pregnant. The women go berserk, claiming that it is completely impossible. After some failed attempts to explain, the doctor turns toward the window and starts looking out cautiously. "What's up, why are you ignoring us?" "Well, I once heard about a case like this. There was a falling star and three rich guys came with expensive gifts. And there's no way I'm gonna miss it!"
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A woman comes to the doctor with her teenage daughter, who's complaining about an upset stomach. After the examination, the doc determines the girl is roughly four months pregnant. The women go berserk, claiming that it is completely impossible. After some failed attempts to explain, the doctor turns toward the window and starts looking out cautiously. "What's up, why are you ignoring us?" "Well, I once heard a case like this. There was a falling star and three rich guys came with expensive gifts. And there's no way I'm gonna miss it!"
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A woman comes to the doctor with her teenage daughter, who's complaining about an upset stomach. After the examination, the doc determines the girl is roughly four months pregnant. The women go berserk, claiming that it is completely impossible. After some failed attempts to explain, the doctor turns toward the window and starts looking out cautiously. "What's up, why are you ignoring us?" "Well, I once heard a case like this. There was a falling star and three rich guys came with expensive gifts. And there's no way I'm gonna miss it!"
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Since this trope appears in Literature/TheBible, it is OlderThanFeudalism.
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* In ''Fanfic/MyPainMyThrill'', Peach ends up pregnant by her secret lover Bowser. No one knew it was possible for koopas and humans to interbreed. The pregnancy isn't noticed until Peach suddenly goes into labor. Peach herself fell into a coma and was kept out-of-the-loop on [[spoiler:her son Bowser Jr.]] until three years afterwards.
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* ''Fanfic/JoysOfTheParenthoodTheTepesEdition'': The fact that Lisa wound up pregnant comes as a complete surprise to both her and Dracula, considering her husband's undead nature.
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* [[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007359,00.html Horrifying variation from France]], where "at least five" women were in such a state of denial/trauma over their pregnancies that ''they killed the newborns and hid the bodies'' -- in some cases ''over a half-dozen times'' -- and forgot it ever happened. The woman in the latest case had had a difficult pregnancy and was too scared to go to the doctor, and her husband didn't notice anything unusual (eight times) because she was chubby. The doctor quoted in the report feels that "pregnancy denial" is a legitimate psychological problem and that it's foolish to think it's exclusively French.
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* [[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007359,00.html Horrifying variation from France]], where "at ''at least five" five'' women were in such a state of denial/trauma over their pregnancies that ''they killed the newborns and hid the bodies'' -- in some cases ''over a half-dozen times'' -- and forgot it ever happened. The woman in the latest case had had a difficult pregnancy and was too scared to go to the doctor, and her husband didn't notice anything unusual (eight times) because she was chubby. The doctor quoted in the report feels that "pregnancy denial" is a legitimate psychological problem and that it's foolish to think it's exclusively French.
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* ''Literature/The Secret Lemonade Drinker(Guy Bellamy)''; the central male character is wrongly diagnosed as sterile by his doctor; both he and his wife have extra-marital affairs;when the husband's girlfriend becomes pregnant he realises that the doctor made a mistake, by which time the wife is also pregnant by her boyfriend.
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* ''Literature/The Secret Lemonade Drinker(Guy Bellamy)''; In ''Literature/TheSecretLemonadeDrinker'', the central male character is wrongly diagnosed as sterile by his doctor; doctor, and both he and his wife have extra-marital affairs;when affairs. When the husband's girlfriend becomes pregnant pregnant, he realises that the doctor made a mistake, by which time the wife is also pregnant by her boyfriend.
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* ''Series/Star Trek: Enterprise'' Commander Tucker (male!) becomes pregnant after discovering that the concepts of male and female are not universal, and he didn't know that what he was doing with an alien he thought was female was sex.
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* ''Series/Star Trek: Enterprise'' ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' Commander Tucker (male!) becomes pregnant after discovering that the concepts of male and female are not universal, and he didn't know that what he was doing with an alien he thought was female was sex.
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* ''Series/FridayNightLights'': Eric and Tammy Taylor are in their early 40s. Their only child, Julie, is half-way through high school. They're looking forward to having the house to themselves when she goes off to college in a couple of years. Then Tammy realizes she's pregnant. They're both very surprised having assumed Tammy was pre-menopausal.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': After Adelind tricks Nick into sleeping with her in order to strip him of his Grimm powers, she is shocked and appalled to discover that she's pregnant with his baby. This happens almost immediately after she spent most of the previous season pregnant with her first born Diana. However, it is a WrittenInInfirmity as the actress Claire Coffee was now pregnant in real life. The arc then centered around the two archenemies having to put their differences aside to keep their potentially superpowered half-grimm/ half hexenbeist baby safe.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': After Adelind tricks Nick into sleeping with her in order to strip him of his Grimm powers, she is shocked and appalled to discover that she's pregnant with his baby. This happens almost immediately after she spent most of the previous season pregnant with her first born Diana. However, it is a WrittenInInfirmity as the actress Claire Coffee was now pregnant in real life. The arc then centered around the two archenemies having to put their differences aside to keep their potentially superpowered half-grimm/ half hexenbeist baby safe.
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* [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-strong-case-for-reproductive-licensing/19 Denial]] is a big issue for some featured on Website/NotAlwaysRight.
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* ''Series/Star Trek: Enterprise'' Commander Tucker (male!) becomes pregnant after discovering that the concepts of male and female are not universal, and he didn't know that what he was doing with an alien he thought was female was sex.
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* In the ''Zootopia'' comic ''Webcomic/IWillSurvive'' Judy finds out she's pregnant by Nick. There has never been a prey/predator pregnancy before. Nick is ecstatic at the news, but Judy wants an abortion because (amongst other reasons) how the baby will turn out is unknown and it might even be [[DeathByChildbirth too dangerous to carry to term]].
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* ''Literature/The Secret Lemonade Drinker(Guy Bellamy)''; the central male character is wrongly diagnosed as sterile by his doctor; both he and his wife have extra-marital affairs;when the husband's girlfriend becomes pregnant he realises that the doctor made a mistake, by which time the wife is also pregnant by her boyfriend.
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* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Margaret thinks she's pregnant. The thing is, she doesn't want to be for it means being discharged, and the Army is the only life she's ever known. Radar reluctantly allows his pet rabbit to be used by removing its ovaries for Margaret's pregnancy test, which turns out negative.
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* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Margaret thinks she's pregnant. The thing is, she doesn't want to be for it means being discharged, and the Army is the only life she's ever known. Radar reluctantly allows his pet rabbit to be used by removing its ovaries for Margaret's pregnancy test, which turns out negative.
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* The final episode of Hanna-Barbera's 1970 prime time series ''WesternAnimation/WheresHuddles'' had a doctor's diagnosis making everyone think that Bubba--a ''male,'' mind you--was pregnant.
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* Inverted for ''VideoGame/YsVIIILacrimosaOfDana'': a NonPlayerCharacter is actually pregnant, but there's little {{Foreshadowing}} about her pregnancy aside from her looking under the wind most of the time before a certain point in the game, wherein she will collapse from exhaustion while managing a shop at Castaway Village. HandWaved by TheMedic, who states the mother-to-be wasn't visibly showing signs of being pregnant.
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A character finds herself (or [[MisterSeahorse himself]]) or he finds his female partner pregnant after being declared [[InfertilityAngst infertile]] by doctors. Also occurs when [[InterspeciesRomance the prospective parents are of different species]], of grandparenting age, or if the mother hasn't had sex in a long time, if ever. Often, the male will accuse his partner of cheating, only to eat crow later when medical tests (either on himself or a paternity test) proves he's the father. In television, this trope is often the result of [[RealLifeWritesThePlot an actress' real-life pregnancy]]. A favored trope of soap operas.
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A character finds herself (or [[MisterSeahorse himself]]) or he finds his female partner pregnant after being declared [[InfertilityAngst infertile]] infertile by doctors. Also occurs when [[InterspeciesRomance the prospective parents are of different species]], of grandparenting age, or if the mother hasn't had sex in a long time, if ever. Often, the male will accuse his partner of cheating, only to eat crow later when medical tests (either on himself or a paternity test) proves he's the father. In television, this trope is often the result of [[RealLifeWritesThePlot an actress' real-life pregnancy]]. A favored trope of soap operas.
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A character finds herself (or [[MisterSeahorse himself]]) or he finds his female partner pregnant after being declared infertile by doctors. Also occurs when [[InterspeciesRomance the prospective parents are of different species]], of grandparenting age, or if the mother hasn't had sex in a long time, if ever. Often, the male will accuse his partner of cheating, only to eat crow later when medical tests (either on himself or a paternity test) proves he's the father. In television, this trope is often the result of [[RealLifeWritesThePlot an actress' real-life pregnancy]]. A favored trope of soap operas.
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A character finds herself (or [[MisterSeahorse himself]]) or he finds his female partner pregnant after being declared infertile [[InfertilityAngst infertile]] by doctors. Also occurs when [[InterspeciesRomance the prospective parents are of different species]], of grandparenting age, or if the mother hasn't had sex in a long time, if ever. Often, the male will accuse his partner of cheating, only to eat crow later when medical tests (either on himself or a paternity test) proves he's the father. In television, this trope is often the result of [[RealLifeWritesThePlot an actress' real-life pregnancy]]. A favored trope of soap operas.
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See also: ButWeUsedACondom, LawOfInverseFertility, SurprisePregnancy.
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See also: ButWeUsedACondom, LawOfInverseFertility, SurprisePregnancy.
SurprisePregnancy, InfertilityAngst.
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Not to be confused with MissConception, where a character is simply wrong about why they can't or shouldn't be pregnant.
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If there is some sort of supernatural explanation for why this supposedly infertile character is pregnant, see MysticalPregnancy.
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A character finds herself (or [[MisterSeahorse himself]]) or he finds his female partner pregnant after being declared infertile by doctors. Also occurs when the prospective parents are of different species (comics, sci-fi) or when the parents are already of grandparenting age, or if the mother hasn't had sex in a long time (or ever). Often, the male will accuse his partner of cheating, only to eat crow later when medical tests (either on himself or a paternity test) proves he's the father. In television, this trope is often the result of [[RealLifeWritesThePlot an actress' real-life pregnancy]]. A favored trope of soap operas.
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A character finds herself (or [[MisterSeahorse himself]]) or he finds his female partner pregnant after being declared infertile by doctors. Also occurs when [[InterspeciesRomance the prospective parents are of different species (comics, sci-fi) or when the parents are already species]], of grandparenting age, or if the mother hasn't had sex in a long time (or ever).time, if ever. Often, the male will accuse his partner of cheating, only to eat crow later when medical tests (either on himself or a paternity test) proves he's the father. In television, this trope is often the result of [[RealLifeWritesThePlot an actress' real-life pregnancy]]. A favored trope of soap operas.
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* Inverted in [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10696920/chapters/23692221 Mission's end, mission's beginning]] - [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirk]] is well aware of the likely cause of those suspiciously morning-sickness-esque symptoms, due to BizarreHumanBiology and Pon Farr. It's [[TheMcCoy the doctor]] who doesn't quite believe it.
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* Inverted in [[http://archiveofourown.''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10696920/chapters/23692221 Mission's end, mission's beginning]] - beginning]]''. [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirk]] is well aware of the likely cause of those suspiciously morning-sickness-esque symptoms, due to BizarreHumanBiology and Pon Farr. It's [[TheMcCoy the doctor]] who doesn't quite believe it.
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* Inverted in [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10696920/chapters/23692221 Mission's end, mission's beginning]] - [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirk]] is well aware of the likely cause of those suspiciously morning-sickness-esque symptoms, due to BizarreHumanBiology and Pon Farr. It's [[TheMcCoy the doctor]] who doesn't quite believe it.
