History Main / AllLesbiansWantKids

It's brought up again in Season 8, when a run in with [[spoiler:Willow's ex-boyfriend Oz]] shows that he now has a child. Willow is upset; [[spoiler:Oz]] assumes it's because of this trope and tells her there are ways for her to have a child. She reveals that her anger has nothing to do with him having a child but rather that he's allowed to have a normal future, while she can't when she is one of the top people in the Slayer organization and a sorceress supreme with much [[SuperpoweredEvilSide inner-darkness]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' has an odd version due to its sci-fi elements: Leslie and Robin decide to have kids, and consult Joe about some form of HomosexualReproduction. He devises a way that can make a man's sperm carry one of their DNA to impregnate the other. ([[ShoutOut He may have gotten this idea from]] ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited.'') He notes that while they could certainly do this "the fun way," they could also just have whatever man they choose donate sperm. (The usual turkey baster joke is replaced by a Super Soaker.) The couple asks their gay friend Ethan.

* Parodied in a ''SaturdayNightLive'' sketch about ''Cherry Grove'', a fictional DistaffCounterpart of the reality show ''Series/FireIsland''. ''Fire Island'' is about six gay men sharing a beach house, while ''Cherry Grove'' is about five lesbians doing the same. In the first scene, the women are all cradling babies.

* Parodied in a ''SaturdayNightLive'' sketch about ''Cherry Grove'', a fictional DistaffCounterpart of the reality show ''Series/FireIsland''. ''Fire Island'' is about six gay men sharing a beach house, while ''Cherry Grove'' is about six lesbians. In the first scene, the women are all cradling babies.

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* Played strangely in ''Moon over June'': Summer has had herself artificially inseminated, but did it solely to satisfy her pregnancy fetish, and doesn't appear to have thought the consequences through fully. As Hatsuki points out, since Summer DoesNotLikeMen to the extreme there's at least a 50% risk she'll resent the child as soon as it's born; Summer is in denial and insists, despite being a gynecologist, that "[[ArtisticLicenseBiology She'll be a girl if I want her to be one hard enough.]]" Meanwhile, Hatsuki has just discovered that she is ''also'' pregnant, but in her case it's unexpected, apparently caused by sexual contact with a girl who'd just had sex with a man rather than the more direct method, and WordOfGod is that she finds pregnancy frightening. She winds up keeping it in order to be able to work in pregnancy fetish videos, and after the kids (both girls) are born Summer and Hatsuki raise their respective offspring together.
* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' has an odd version due to its sci-fi elements: Leslie and Robin decide to have kids, and consult Joe about some form of HomosexualReproduction. He devises a way that can make a man's sperm carry one of their DNA to impregnate the other. ([[ShoutOut He may have gotten this idea from]] ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited.'') He notes that while they could certainly do this "the fun way," they could also just have whatever man they choose donate sperm. (The usual turkey baster joke is replaced by a Super Soaker.) The couple asks their gay friend Ethan.
* Alluded to in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''. Nanase mentions to her girlfriend Ellen that she thinks she'd like to have a couple of kids someday. Ellen then points out that they have access to GenderBender technology that was ''specifically designed'' for situations like this (albeit by an alien species with a very different view of gender). Nanase is both comforted and creeped out by the thought, particularly since in order to use said technology, they'd have to go through her ChivalrousPervert cousin, Tedd.

* ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'' has a curious variation on this: set in the far future, the male and female crew of a colonization mission got into a dispute and split up, resulting in one planet in the system populated entirely by males, the other entirely by females. Generations later, both planets rely on genetic engineering to reproduce. For the all-female planet Majere, two women pair off, and they have their egg cells spliced together in a lab, and the resulting embryo is implanted in one of them who carries the fetus to term.

So while the lesbian characters do want to "get pregnant" on the show, many times they just do this with ''each other'', skipping the "we need a sperm donor" step. Zigzagged with Jura, who spends most of the series trying to seduce Hibiki. Jura is in a committed lesbian relationship with Barnette, but Jura is only trying to seduce Hibiki for the ''specific purpose'' of using him as a sperm donor: her logic being that if she's the first woman from her planet in generations to conceive a child with a male, it will make her a global celebrity.

* ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'' has a curious variation on this: set in the far future, the male and female crew of a colonization mission got into a dispute and split up, resulting in one planet in the system populated entirely by males, the other entirely by females. Generations later, both planets rely on genetic engineering to reproduce. For the all-female planet Majere, two women pair off, and they have their egg cells spliced together in a lab, and the resulting embryo is implanted in one of them who carries the fetus to term. So while the lesbian characters do want to "get pregnant" on the show, many times they just do this with ''each other'', skipping the "we need a sperm donor" step. Zigzagged with Jura, who spends most of the series trying to seduce Hibiki. Jura is in a committed lesbian relationship with Barnette, but Jura is only trying to seduce Hibiki for the ''specific purpose'' of using him as a sperm donor: her logic being that if she's the first woman from her planet in generations to conceive a child with a male, it will make her a global celebrity.

* ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'' has a curious variation on this: set in the far future, the male and female crew of a colonization mission got into a dispute and split up, resulting in one planet in the system populated entirely by males, the other entirely by females. Generations later, both planets rely on genetic engineering to reproduce. For the all-female planet Majere, their social structure is still based on a sort of echo of the male/female family unit: two women pair off, and they have their egg cells spliced together in a lab, and the resulting embryo is implanted in one of them who carries the fetus to term. So while the lesbian characters *do* want to "get pregnant" on the show, many times they just do this with ''each other'', skipping the "we need a sperm donor" step. The weird thing is that their entire society is sort of passively lesbian, so strictly speaking, characters who never paired off but remained single throughout the series were possibly an inversion of this trope.
** Of course, the series plot involves a crew from all-male planet getting stuck with a crew from all-female planet. Teenaged girl Dita becomes infatuated with male teenager Hibiki, though she doesn't specifically want to do this to breed. On the other hand, in what might fit this trope in a weird way, female pilot Jura spends most of the series trying to seduce Hibiki. Jura is in a committed lesbian relationship with fellow pilot Barnette, who is upset that she's doing this, but then Jura explains that she is only trying to seduce Hibiki for the ''specific purpose'' of using him as a sperm donor: her logic being that if she's the first woman from her planet in generations to conceive a child with a male, it will make her a global celebrity. This may be complicated by the fact that the two crews only recently found out they're the same ''species'', and all of them including Jura seem to only understand what reproduction-through-intercourse entails in a very academic level (to the point that Jura asks Hibiki for "what she needs" to have a baby, in such a way that it's not clear if she knows what "sperm" is...). This becomes even funnier when you realize most of her information comes from what looks like a Sex Ed pamphlet geared to preteens who are barely starting puberty rather than the 20 year old Jura is.

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* In this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxDsx8HfXEk Wells Fargo commercial]], two women are learning sign-language. By the end of the commercial, it is revealed that the two women are a couple, and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments are learning sign-language in order to adopt a deaf girl]].
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* So far averted with Karolina and Xavin of the ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''.

* This has been [[AvertedTrope averted]] with ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s Willow, despite having been in two long term relationships. Though in a subtle version of this trope, Willow and Tara became a kind of "adoptive parents" towards Dawn, even after Buffy [[spoiler: came back from the dead]]. Later Dawn even comments that she sees Willow as her mom.\\\

* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'': The conflict between Callie and Arizona, eventually involving a breakup, hit this trope right on its head.
** Not necessarily. Callie has shown a desire to have children from the beginning. When she was with George, long before [[BiTheWay she was shown to have interest in women]], she made this clear. Arizona, who was introduced as a lesbian and a pediatric surgeon was completely against the idea, eventually agreeing because it was what Callie wanted. Callie's pregnancy was an unplanned consequence of a one night stand with her [[PlatonicLifePartners best friend]] during her temporary split with Arizona.

* Played with in ''Series/OneBigHappy''. Lizzy plays it straight, obviously. Her ex Erica is surprised at first, but warms up to it in an attempt to get Lizzy to come back to her. Kate doesn't mind the kid part, but still can't date Lizzy because she's her nurse and that'd violate protocol.

* In ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}'', lesbian Esther volunteers to have a surrogate baby for Trevor and Grace. Because of their criminal lifestyle, she contemplates keeping the baby for herself.

* Averted in ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' with Maggie, who really doesn't see herself as a mother, possibly because her own childhood was crappy (her family kicked her out after finding out about her sexual orientation). [[spoiler:This ends up driving a wedge between her and Alex, as Alex desperately wants kids and knows that Maggie will never change her mind. They do end up parting ways as AmicableExes]]. Played straight later when Alex becomes almost a surrogate mother to Sam's daughter Ruby.
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* Played strangely in ''Webcomic/MoonOverJune'': Summer has had herself artificially inseminated, but did it solely to satisfy her pregnancy fetish, and doesn't appear to have thought the consequences through fully. As Hatsuki points out, since Summer DoesNotLikeMen to the extreme there's at least a 50% risk she'll resent the child as soon as it's born; Summer is in denial and insists, despite being a gynecologist, that "[[ArtisticLicenseBiology She'll be a girl if I want her to be one hard enough.]]" Meanwhile, Hatsuki has just discovered that she is ''also'' pregnant, but in her case it's unexpected, apparently caused by sexual contact with a girl who'd just had sex with a man rather than the more direct method, and WordOfGod is that she finds pregnancy frightening. She winds up keeping it in order to be able to work in pregnancy fetish videos, and after the kids (both girls) are born Summer and Hatsuki raise their respective offspring together.

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

A great deal of attention will be paid to what is an easy and minor part of the process: the lesbian couple's quest to find sperm. Sperm banks and adoption will almost never be seriously discussed. The TV lesbians will instead try to get sperm from the men in their life, be he a close friend, in-law, or random passerby and a truly improbable number will even opt for an "old-fashioned" impregnation with the sperm donor. If one can't be found, expect the lesbian couple go to increasingly [[ZanyScheme unlikely, embarrassing, and even illegal ends to acquire one.]] Expect some variation on a joke involving turkey basters.

* In the Creator/GailSimone run on ''Franchise/WonderWoman'', specifically ''The Circle'': all the women of the Amazon society of Themyscira are reincarnations of women who were murdered in their previous lives, many of whom were mothers. However, due to now existing under the ImmortalProcreationClause, they are unable to have children, but still maintain the strong maternal instincts from their prior lives. As a coping mechanism, several women carried wooden dolls called whittle babies; unfourtnately, one woman just cracks from it all, she starts believing that the doll is her literal baby, forcing Hippolyta's personal guards to kill her. Further, the Circle look upon Hippolyta having Diana after literal divine intervention as a curse that would lead to Amazon society being ripped apart by envy. This was forwarded most of all by Alkyone, head of the Circle and a very fervent protector of what she percieves as Amazon culture. She eventually decides to try and kill baby Diana and later her as an adult (where, in a fit of grand irony, it's revealed that Alkyone herself suffered from the same sort of envy she warned about.)

* Averted in ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' with Maggie, who really doesn't see herself as a mother. [[spoiler:This ends up driving a wedge between her and Alex, as Alex desperately wants kids and knows that Maggie will never change her mind. They do end up parting ways as AmicableExes]].

* Averted hard with Scandal Savage in ''ComicBook/SecretSix'', her dad Vandal Savage wants a grandchild which she point blank refuses to give him because she suspects with good reason he just wants an organ donor.

* In the Creator/GailSimone run on ''Franchise/WonderWoman'', specifically ''The Circle'': all the women of the Amazon society of Themyscira are reincarnations of women who were murdered in their previous lives, many of whom were mothers, but since they now exist under the ImmortalProcreationClause the desire for children reaches such extremes that several women carried wooden dolls called whittle babies, one woman experiences a break from reality and starts believing that the doll is her literal baby, and Hippolyta's personal guards look upon her having Diana after literal divine intervention as a curse that would lead to Amazon society being ripped apart by envy (an envy the eponymous Circle's leader is none too subtly implied to harbor) and resolve to solve the problem by murdering the infant Diana.

* In this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxDsx8HfXEk Wells Fargo commercial]], two women are learning sign-language. By the end of the commercial, it is revealed that the two women are a couple, and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming are learning sign-language in order to adopt a deaf girl]].

* Played strangely in ''Webcomic/MoonOverJune'': Summer has had herself artificially inseminated, but did it solely to satisfy her pregnancy fetish, and doesn't appear to have thought the consequences through fully. As Hatsuki points out, since Summer DoesNotLikeMen to the extreme there's at least a 50% risk she'll resent the child as soon as it's born; Summer is in denial and insists, despite being a gynecologist, that "[[YouFailBiologyForever She'll be a girl if I want her to be one hard enough.]]" Meanwhile, Hatsuki has just discovered that she is ''also'' pregnant, but in her case it's unexpected, apparently caused by sexual contact with a girl who'd just had sex with a man rather than the more direct method, and WordOfGod is that she finds pregnancy frightening. She winds up keeping it in order to be able to work in pregnancy fetish videos, and after the kids (both girls) are born Summer and Hatsuki raise their respective offspring together.

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

* A chapter of textbook example of this trope is played straight in ''{{ER}}'' with Dr. Kerry Weaver and her firefighter girlfriend complete with custody battles, melodrama and death.
* In ''NYPDBlue'', Det. Abbey Sullivan and her partner got Det. Greg Medevoy to donate his sperm.

* So far this has been [[AvertedTrope averted]] with ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s Willow, despite having been in two long term relationships. Though in a subtle version of this trope, Willow and Tara became a kind of "adoptive parents" towards Dawn, even after Buffy [[spoiler: came back from the dead]]. Later Dawn even comments that she sees Willow as her mom.\\\

* This seems to be the catalyst for the breakup between Caitlin and Alicia on the cancelled ''SexAndTheCity'' clone ''Cashmere Mafia''.
* Played with in ''[[FlashForward2009 FlashForward]]'' where Janice, a lesbian, quite bluntly says she does ''not'' want kids, but is pregnant in her vision of the future.

* Played strangely in MoonOverJune: Summer has had herself artificially inseminated, but did it solely to satisfy her pregnancy fetish, and doesn't appear to have thought the consequences through fully. As Hatsuki points out, since Summer DoesNotLikeMen to the extreme there's at least a 50% risk she'll resent the child as soon as it's born; Summer is in denial and insists, despite being a gynecologist, that "[[YouFailBiologyForever She'll be a girl if I want her to be one hard enough.]]" Meanwhile, Hatsuki has just discovered that she is ''also'' pregnant, but in her case it's unexpected, apparently caused by sexual contact with a girl who'd just had sex with a man rather than the more direct method, and WordOfGod is that she finds pregnancy frightening. She winds up keeping it in order to be able to work in pregnancy fetish videos, and after the kids (both girls) are born Summer and Hatsuki raise their respective offspring together.
* ''{{Shortpacked}}'' has an odd version due to its sci-fi elements: Leslie and Robin decide to have kids, and consult Joe about some form of HomosexualReproduction. He devises a way that can make a man's sperm carry one of their DNA to impregnate the other. ([[ShoutOut He may have gotten this idea from]] ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited.'') He notes that while they could certainly do this "the fun way," they could also just have whatever man they choose donate sperm. (The usual turkey baster joke is replaced by a Super Soaker.) The couple asks their gay friend Ethan.

* Appeared to be the only reason to include Carol's partner Susan in ''{{Friends}}''.

* The token lesbians in the US version of ''QueerAsFolk'' decide to have a baby; naturally they select their friend, gay Heroic Sociopath Brian, to be the biological father.