Instant Birth, Just Add Water/Playing With

Basic Trope: Amniotic sac breaks; birth happens instantly.
 * Played Straight: Alice's water breaks, and the baby arrives shortly thereafter
 * Exaggerated: Alice's water breaks, and the baby just falls right out.
 * Justified: The water breaking is usually a sign that birth will happen soon.
 * This is not Alice's first child; women who have birthed more than one child generally give birth quicker than women who are birthing their first child.
 * Inverted: Alice's water breaks, but she's not even ready to give birth, or the labor is very slow.
 * Subverted: Alice's water breaks, but she has enough time to get to the hospital.
 * Double Subverted: But her contractions keep getting stronger and stronger along the way, and she barely makes it to the delivery room.
 * Deconstructed:
 * Reconstructed:
 * Parodied: See "Exaggerated"
 * Zig Zagged: Some women give birth right when their water breaks, other times not for some time after.
 * Averted: Alice's water breaks, but the baby does not arrive right then and there.
 * Alice's water does not break
 * Invoked:
 * Exploited: Alice's labor is failing to progress and/or she's overdue, so the midwife or obstetrician breaks the membranes artificially to speed things up.
 * Defied:
 * Enforced: Most Writers Are Male, Did Not Do the Research
 * Discussed: "So, the instant the water breaks, the baby is born?"
 * Conversed: "Yes and no. It's a good sign of progress, but the baby may actually arrive later."
 * Played For Laughs: Alice's water breaks at a bad time.
 * Played For Drama: The quick birth causes problems for Alice.

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