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[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: a baby is born while the mother is stuck in a stalled elevator (births in the vehicle on route to the hospital also count towards this trope). Probably the most [[Uncomfortable Elevator Moment|uncomfortable of elevator moments]]. A classic [[Sitcom]] scenario, especially when the baby has to be [[Delivery Guy|delivered by a squeamish and totally unqualified male lead]]. Cue the inevitable [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].
[[Tropes Are Flexible]]; the baby doesn't need to actually be [[Born in an Elevator]] for this trope to come into play. A taxi, a car in the middle of nowhere, or any other place where paramedics would have trouble reaching the woman in labor in time to help also qualify.
See also [[Locked in a Freezer]], [[Instant Birth, Just Add Water]], and [[Screaming Birth]].
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== [[Anime]]
* In ''[[Vandread]]'', Kahlua a.k.a. Pyoro-2 was born in an elevator. [[The Hero|The male lead]] is initially tasked with handling the delivery, but he manages to hand it over to his love-interest fairly quickly. (This is interesting because she, theoretically, shouldn't be any more qualified for it than he is, and yet she handles it like a pro simply on account of being a woman.)
** Couldn't it be the fact that he grew up on a planet where pregnancy, live birth, etc., doesn't exist? (Thus making him even less qualified than any random earth male...)
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*** [[Squick|...and they're the most popular pairing among Japanese fans.]]
== [[Film]] ==
* This happens in the movie ''[[Blankman]]'': when informed that a pregnant woman in labor is trapped in an elevator nerby, Darryl arrives in his super-hero costume and delivers the baby.
* Averted but referenced in ''[[Die Hard]]''. After Hans and his crew have taken the Nakatomi office workers hostage, Holly <s>McClane</s> Genaro tells him one of them is pregnant. Hans immediately rolls his eyes, expecting this to take place before Holly tells him she's not due for a couple of weeks, but that she need something more comfortable than the floor to sit at. [[Affably Evil|Hans agrees, and has his mooks move a couch from the lobby to the main hall.]]
* The going into labor in a taxi version is used in ''[[Look Who's Talking]].'' (The taxi driver sticks around and the mother, who has broken things off with the baby's father, eventually falls in love with him.)
* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' has this with an alien giving birth to an octopus-shaped baby in a car, starring Agent Jay as [[Delivery Guy]]. (This provides the page image for [[Funny Background Event]].)
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Lucy and Kevin's daughter Savannah on ''[[7th Heaven]]''.
* Happened in ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' of course, with Mr. Belding's wife.
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{{quote|'''Sheppard:''' ''(glances nervously at Teyla)''
'''Teyla:''' What?
'''Sheppard:''' Sorry, it's just that when something like this happens in the movies, the pregnant lady goes into labor.
* The 'giving birth in a taxi' variation happens in an episode of ''[[Frasier]]''. However, in something of a variation, it's the taxi driver's baby, not any of the passengers. And also, the two highly
* ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place
* In ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'', Billie goes into labor on the hospital's broken elevator (during Earl's coma dream). Earl has to help her...and he is proudly holding a healthy baby boy afterwards in the dream.
* ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' had a variation on this. Heidi goes into labor while she, Tim and Jill are driving through the middle of nowhere to go to an awards dinner and she gives birth in a roadside gas station. Tim becomes the [[Delivery Guy]].
* Mrs. Kotter does this on ''[[Welcome Back, Kotter]].''
* Averted on ''[[Kung Fu
* ''[[Joan of Arcadia]]'' features a quite cruel variation: after the baby is born, the mother refuses to look at it and demands it be taken away.
* Happens to
▲== Video Games ==
* This trope is alluded to in [[Elite Beat Agents]] where a taxi driver is asked to take an expecting woman to the hospital. (However, regardless of whether he succeeds or not, she does not give birth in the taxi.)
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'': Bobby amuses himself by pressing the buttons for every floor inside an elevator, then gets bored and leaves. A few seconds later, a man and a doctor wheel a birthing woman into the elevator. The door closes. Ding... Ding... "WAAAH!"
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* [[Truth in Television]]: Actor [[Jack Lemmon]] was born in an elevator.▼
▲== Real Life ==
▲* [[Truth in Television]]: Actor Jack Lemmon was born in an elevator.
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[[Category:Elevator Tropes]]
[[Category:Index of Exact Trope Titles]]
▲[[Category:Elevator Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Birth Tropes]]
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