Law of Inverse Fertility: Difference between revisions
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* Federico García Lorca's ''Yerma'' is mainly about this topic: a woman who wants a child but can't get pregnant no matter what.
* Happens to Detritus and Ruby as their relationship is developed through the [[Discworld]] series. Vimes noted that their marriage was happy but childless. They do however adopt Brick later in Thud.
* Happens to two "friends" in ''[
* A major part of Gordie's character in "The Body" (the [[Stephen King]] novella that later became the film ''[[Stand by Me]]''): his late brother Denny was born after a series of miscarriages and stillbirths and regarded as a gift from God, while he came along ten years later, when his parents didn't want another child.
* Sonea in ''[[The Black Magician Trilogy]]'' falls under this trope from the virgin side of things. And manages to get pregnant while in the very stressful situation of {{spoiler|travelling into exile into a hostile land filled with ruthless stronger magicians, who are hunting them (her and the teacher) as a prelude to the invasion the country they've just been exiled from.}} High stress isn't usually conducive to fertility.
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