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A Sub-Trope of Surprise Pregnancy in which the surprise is not the pregnancy itself, but the number of children involved. This is often used to wring one last twist out of a pregnancy storyline — "Surprise, you're actually giving birth to twins!" Of course, it doesn't have to be twins — any amount that's more than one qualifies for the trope, provided the parents were only expecting one child. This tends to be played in one of two ways: The mother goes into labour expecting to only give birth to one child, only to find herself giving birth to multiple. This one tends to be more Played for Drama. The Panicky Expectant Father walks into the maternity ward expecting to find one bundle of joy, only to find multiple. This one tends to be more Played for Laughs and often results in the father fainting. This was very much Truth in Television until the advent of ultrasound scans, which can tell you in advance if you're going to have more than one baby. While it's now quite rare in real life, it still pops up in fictional works from time to time. A common cause of Too Many Babies, and potentially One Twin Must Die. Compare Late Pregnancy Realization, where the mother doesn't realise she's pregnant at all until she goes into labour. May overlap with Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born depending on the number and genders of the resulting babies. |
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Story of Seasons (2014) has this happen to the player and their spouse. The couple's informed about the pregnancy, but only learn that it's twins during the birth with the husband being shooed away while the second comes out. They're a boy and girl. | |
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Good Luck Charlie: The season when Amy Duncan is pregnant with Toby, Bob wants to know the baby's gender and sends Gabe to the clinic to get the disc of her ultrasound. They are horrified to see the ultrasound containing triplets. Averted as it turns out Gabe took the wrong disc with an earlier scene showing the nurse talking to the doctor that the missing disc is for another pregnant mother named Angela Duncan. | |
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In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - Moon Castle: The Space Adventure, Wolnie spends most of the film pregnant. Near the end, when she gives birth, Wolffy helps her deliver the baby and then notices there are more than one, counting to four on his hand and screaming "How is this possible?!". | |
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The Cosby Show: Discussed in one episode where Cliff is at work and tells his assistant about one of their regulars who had been in the delivery room eight times before. When Sondra gets pregnant, the extended family and audience are led to believe she's only carrying one. It isn't until the birth episode that their doctor drops this line on the grandparents (and audience): "I'm happy to announce that you are the grandparents of a healthy boy! Beat And a girl!" It happens to Cliff himself when he gets pregnant in "The Day the Spores Landed" and initially gives birth to an enormous hoagie. A few seconds later, he feels more labor pains and follows up by delivering a bottle of soda. |
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Date A Re:Live: At the end of the series, Shido, who was married to Tohka, thought she was just having one child. However, it turned out she was having two children. | |
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In WandaVision Wanda has just given birth and Vision leans in for a congratulatory kiss, only for Wanda to start screaming as contractions start up again for the second baby. | |
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The Discworld tale Strandpiel, by A.A. Pessimal, sees Witch Olga Romanoff getting pregnant. In a moment of exasperation, a fellow Witch wishes a multiple birth on her so she can see what it feels like, in that democratic state where all women are equal regardless of social status. note Olga is from a noble family. Several months later, she has twins. | |
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Split Heirs opens with the Queen of Hydrangea giving birth to triplets. This is a problem, because her husband believes that multiple births implies multiple fathers, and the penalty for infidelity is rather gruesome. She tries to conceal this by secretly sending one boy and the girl into fosterage, but the maid sent to do this accidentally takes both boys, leaving the queen to raise her daughter as a son. It gets more complicated from there. | |
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In Me, Myself & Irene, Charlie and his wife Layla are at the hospital, where, fresh out of being confronted with proof that Layla had an affair with a black man, they are shocked when Layla starts contracting again, delivering not one more child of her affair, but two, ending up with triplets. Doesn't stop Charlie from loving her and the triplets though. | |
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In Welcome Back, Kotter, Season 3, episodes 2-3, Mrs. Kotter gives birth to surprise twins. (Alan Oppenheimer plays Dr. Mel Melmann, who had been Kotter's doctor ever since delivering him.) | |
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The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey: Reynie reads letters that had been written by Mr. Benedict's parents before his birth, in which they make references to their "baby" in the singular. The readers already know that Mr. Benedict has a twin brother, Mr. Curtain. | |
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In one episode of Peppa Pig, Mrs. Rabbit becomes pregnant and the kids spend the episode wondering if the baby is going to be a boy or a girl. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that Mrs. Rabbit had twins, one boy and one girl, instead of the expected one baby. | |
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Extended Stay: Mistress and Warden have no idea what they're having or even how many they're having. Warden, for the most part, is convinced that they're only expecting one baby. It isn't until Mistress gives birth on their wedding day in Chapter 13 that they find out they were expecting twins the whole time. | |
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Happens on occasion on Call the Midwife, justified in that the show is set in 1950s/60s-era London, and the most advanced piece of equipment the midwives have for knowing what's going on inside the womb is a pinard, used to detect a heartbeat. In one of her early episodes, Ms. Higgins, Dr. Turner's acerbic new secretary, congratulates an expectant twin mother and comments that it's lucky she knows she's expecting twins, as doctors generally fail to diagnose it. | |
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Life: the Game: When the player character's wife gives birth to quintuplets, the text on the screen reads, "It's a boy. Twins. Triplets. Quadru—wait, what?! Hmm..." indicating that the father is shocked and unsure at having that many. | |
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Big Mouth: Parodied. The climax of "Poop Madness" plays out like Andrew is giving birth to the poop he's been holding in all summer, complete with him doing breathing exercises, Nick wrapping the poop in his shirt like a blanket, and Maury and Connie walking onto the scene with an "It's a Shit!" balloon to celebrate. And then Andrew poops again, remarking that they're having twins. | |
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In Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides foresees that Chani would be giving birth to a daughter. But towards the end of the story, Chani has given birth to twins. Paul is surprised by this but he realizes that the reason he foresees only having a daughter is because his son would inherit his prescient abilities. | |
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In The Shepherd's Crown, the young witch Tiffany helps deliver a woman's babies: two boys, which thrills the family, and an unexpected girl, which does not. Seeing the beginnings of The Un-Favourite, Tiffany plans regular visits to ensure the daughter won't be neglected. | |
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This happened to the parents of Jonathan and Drew Scott of the Property Brothers. While ultrasounds were around when their mother was pregnant, they weren't normally done unless the doctor thought there was a problem, and the brothers' heartbeats happened to be in synch during prenatal exams. The doctor delivered Jonathan, headed out toward the waiting room with the "It's a boy" news, and was chased down by the nurse because Drew was on his way out. | |
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Downplayed in 101 Dalmatians. Dogs usually have large litters, so Perdita giving birth to multiple puppies isn't a surprise to her owners. Perdita giving birth to fifteen puppies, however, is a surprise to everyone present. | |
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Twins in The Sims 2 are this in normal gameplay, as there is no mechanic for determining if a pregnancy is a twin pregnancy. Note the "normal gameplay", as a cheat exists ("forcetwins") to force a twin pregnancy. The Open For Business expansion pack added a cheesecake that (somehow) increases the chance of twins if eaten by a pregnant Sim, while the Freetime expansion pack adds an aspiration benefit for Family-aspiration Sims that also increases the chance of twins. | |
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In Fables Snow gives birth to an entire litter, seeing as the father is The Big Bad Wolf. She's quite distressed to have it happen six times in quick succession after a 42-hour labor. It's an even bigger surprise since they actually had seven children. The youngest child, later named Ghost, is an invisible wind spirit known as a zephyr. | |
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The premise of Blood Brothers is that Mrs. Johnstone is pregnant and can barely afford to take care of one more child, so when she finds out she's having twins, she gives one to her wealthy, childless neighbour. | |
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The Vazula Chronicles: Laura spends most of A Kingdom Threatened heavily pregnant. The doctor says she'll have only one child, but late in the book she has twins, Jacqueline and Germain. Jacqueline turns out to have concealment magic, which is why the doctor couldn't detect her. | |
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The Brittas Empire: A plot point in Series 2 revolves around Carole being pregnant. "New Generations" has her give birth and to everyone's surprise, it turns out to be twins. Justified in that Carole hadn't had any further check-ups with her doctor since the initial announcement, with the hope that the pregnancy would terminate naturally. | |
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Rune Factory 5: This happens after the twins' birth. Ares (or the bachelors if you're playing as Alice) will be surprised to hear the mother use the plural term and notice there are two babies. Funny and heartwarming to note is that the first child wanted and predicted their mother would birth both a boy and a girl. | |
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In Little Women, after Meg gives birth to her twins, they surprise Laurie when he arrives by making him close his eyes and then put two babies in his arms. The trope is more understandable in this case given that this is 1868 and sonograms don't exist yet. | |
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The titular miracle in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) involves Betty Hutton's character giving birth to sextuplets. | |
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In Same Difference, the fact that Tang Shen gives birth to quadruplet sons comes as a total shock to the Hamato Family. | |
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In Noah (2014), the formerly-barren Ila becomes pregnant with her and Shem's first child after being cured magically of the wounds causing her infertility. After the birth of their first child, Ila begins to scream and her contractions start up once again, leading Shem and his equally surprised mother to realize that she is delivering twins. | |
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In Young Justice, the time-traveling Bart Allen goes up to Iris West and takes a moment to say hi to his future father and aunt Dawn. Iris (who only learned she was pregnant that morning) is shocked to find out they're having twins. | |
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Eyes on Me: In Happily Ever After, Garnet is set to adopt a baby from a fourteen-year-old transmasculine person called Malachite. Up until Malachite gives birth in Chapter 6, pretty much everyone (including Malachite's grandfather Van) is convinced that they're only expecting one baby. When Malachite finally does goes in labor, however, Van is shocked to find that they've actually had twins. Everyone else is taken aback when Garnet informs them of the news. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Baby Cakes", Mrs. Cake gives birth to a son (Pound) and a daughter (Pumpkin). While Mr. Cake takes it in stride, his employee Pinkie Pie and her best friends, who have come to meet the babies, are surprised that the Cakes have had twins. | |
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In Little House on the Prairie, Nellie gives birth to twins after she and her husband Percy spent most of the episode thinking they were only expecting one. In addition, they'd decided on raising the baby as Jewish if it were a boy and as a Christian if it were a girl; and both sets of grandparents were eager to see what religion the baby would be raised as. Justified, as this takes place well before the advent of sonograms. | |
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A variant in Transformers (2019), where as part of drastic energy-saving steps taken after the devastating War of the Threefold Spark, new forgings (the Transformer equivalent on births) are dramatically reduced to the point a new forging is treated as a major celebration. There's a big ceremony when Bumblebee is forged, but unexpectedly Cliffjumper steps out of the Pyramid (the forging facility) some time after, long after everyone has left. Autobot leader Sentinel Prime expresses surprise and annoyance at Cliffjumper's emergence. | |
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South Park: In "Jakovasaurus", when Joum Joum is finally impregnated, the whole town shows up for the birth of her child. She gives birth to a baby... and then another... and another... suffice it to say she has LOADS of kids. | |
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Rather unusually compared to most works, Warrior Cats occasionally features an inversion of the trope: Since the characters are cats, they typically expect to give birth to several kits at once, so it can be a surprise when there's just one. One example of this is in Bluestar's Prophecy; multiple characters express their surprise that Snowfur only has one kit; even the medicine cat thought there was more than one at first when the labor started. | |
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In Encanto, Pedro is shown playing this up by pretending to faint dramatically when Alma reveals she's having triplets. | |
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The Revenge of the Sith example is justified in the Star Wars Legends novelization by Matt Stover. Padme tells her medical droid to keep her baby's sex a surprise, and the robot evidently was Literal-Minded about it. | |
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In Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Liz discovers she's pregnant by Hellboy. In the end, Hellboy says they should move to the countryside which will be "great for the baby", only for Liz to state "babies" and hold up two fingers, revealing she's expecting twins. | |
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In the I Love Lucy where Lucy gives birth to Little Ricky, Ricky and Fred chat with a man who is expecting his seventh child, with all six of the previous ones being girls. After his wife gives birth and the nurse tells him, "We have a surprise for you this time," he's ecstatic about finally having a boy, only to approach the window and learn his wife gave birth to triplets! All girls. | |
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In the finale of Friends, Chandler and Monica discover that Erica, the woman whose child they are set to adopt, has actually had twins. Erica notes that twins run in her family. The doctor was aware it was twins the whole time, but Erica isn't the brightest spark and thought her OBGYN talking about "both heartbeats" meant hers and the baby's. | |
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Gravity Falls: The reason Stanley and Stanford got their names is because their father was not expecting twins and was not very creative, so he just named them both Stan. | |
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