Childbirth, labor, delivery in SF
- Lois McMaster Bujold. Barrayar, "The Mountains of Mourning" in Borders of Infinity and several other Miles Vorkosigan novels. (cultural clash between "modern women" who use uterine replicators and "old-fashioned" women who insist on "body births," which the modern women consider absurdly dangerous.
- Suzy McKee Charnas. Motherlines (detailed childbirth scene)
- Suzette Haden Elgin. (Woman tortured during childbirth)
- Elizabeth A. Lynn. "Jubilee's Story," "The Man Who Was Pregnant"
- Gabrielle's Hope episode of Xena: Warrior Princess - Gabrielle gives birth
- Existence episode of The X-Files - Scully gives birth
- In Arcadia Ego episode of Millennium - another birth scene
- "Expecting" (Angel 1x12) - Cordelia & other women wake up pregnant; they progress basically to labor & then poof - no pregnancies
- Angel season 4 - Cordelia is pregnant (again); she does give birth & then lapses into a coma.