Basic Trope: A woman goes into labor under stressful circumstances.
- Straight: Alice goes into labor just after evacuating her burning house.
- Exaggerated: Alice is only 4 months along.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified: Adrenaline can screw up the balance of other hormones, and cause Alice's body to get rid of anything that would slow her down during any "fight or flight" response.
- Inverted:
- Alice and Bob conceive as the plane they're on plummets to the ground.
- Alice goes into labor during a quiet evening at home.
- Subverted:
- Alice does OK when she sees the house burning.
- Although Alice soiled herself during the ordeal, she's OK.
- Double Subverted:
- But then when the fire chief tells her that her older son is trapped inside, she panics and goes into labor.
- It turns out that she went into labor too.
- Parodied: Alice manages to survive a house fire, a Zombie Apocalypse, the untimely death of her husband, Bob, an attack by a bear, an attack by a zombie bear, and a tornado with her pregnancy intact... And goes into stress-induced labor when she stubs her toe.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Alice does not go into labor.
- Alice is not pregnant.
- Enforced:
- "Let's show just what a stressful mess our heroes are in!"
- Truth in Television.
- The actress genuinely went into labor during the scene, which gave it just that extra bit of drama.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alice is reaching the tail end of her pregnancy, and her house starts to burn.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice simply gets out of the house quickly, and makes sure her family is OK. She makes sure not to panic.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: May result in a premature birth or miscarriage. Also may result in the risk of giving birth under less-than-ideal conditions: people who don't have proper medical training, lack of privacy, unsanitary conditions.
- Reconstructed: Alice is taken to the hospital ASAP.
- Played For Laughs: Seamus O'Taku's wife goes into labor at a Fan Convention following a severe case of Nerd Rage.
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