Basic Trope: A pregnant woman feels her baby move in her stomach.
- Straight: Alice is five months into her pregnancy. She feels her baby kicking inside and places her hand on her womb.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice invites her husband Bob to feel her stomach. Bob recoils after feeling the baby kick his hand.
- The baby kicking is visible whether Alice's bump is clothed or not.
- Alice feels so much movement that she keeps thinking that she's going into labor.
- Downplayed: Alice doesn't feel much movement until she's in her third trimester.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: The baby feels Alice caressing the womb from its point of view.
- Subverted: Alice moans as if she feels her baby kicking inside her. She actually has a stomachache and her baby is asleep.
- Double Subverted: But then her baby wakes up and starts kicking.
- Parodied:
- Whoever is feeling Alice's stomach gets launched across the room by her baby.
- The baby turns Alice's womb into a wrecking ball with each movement it makes.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice can't tell if her baby is moving inside her or not.
- Averted: Alice's baby isn't mentioned as active in her uterus.
- Enforced: The producers want a tender moment for Alice and Bob as they get ready to settle into parenthood.
- Lampshaded: "Oh, Bob! The baby just kicked! It won't be too long until I'm a mother!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The baby is sentient and wants Alice aware of its presence whether she's fine with it or not.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: Alice, who is early into her pregnancy, wonders how long it will be until she feels her baby kick.
- Conversed: Alice and Bob look at an expecting couple and comment on how cute it is on them getting to meet their baby before it's born.
- Implied: Alice sits with a contented smile holding her baby bump.
- Deconstructed: A complete stranger asks if he can feel Alice's belly, to which Alice flatly refuses.
- Reconstructed: However, said stranger is also a parent who does get to be on good terms with Alice after reminiscing.
- Played for Laughs: Alice jokes that her baby's going to grow up to be a soccer star.
- Played for Horror: The baby kicks its way out of Alice's belly. Through her belly.
Did you feel that? Better go back to Feeling the Baby Kick.
