# Novels with pregnant heroines? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2017, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-with-pregnant-heroines/781671 "2017-03-08T03:11:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-with-pregnant-heroines/781671/41 "2017-03-09T20:24:26Z")
In the Belisarius series Empress Shakuntala goes through pregnancy and successfully delvers an heir. In the Parasol Protectorate series, Alexia not only goes through pregnancy while adventuring, but ends up giving birth inside a wrecked giant anti-vampire robot. Her life is like that. _In Sing the Four Quarters,_ the female protagonist is pregnant throughout the story, and eventually gives birth during a battle. Which she notably ends when in the stress of labor she accidentally summons a really large, really angry earth elemental that stomps its way through the enemy army. > [@Broomstick](#): > > Fawn in the _Sharing Knife_ tetralogy starts off pregnant but miscarries (actually, the baby is killed, then she miscarries). Then ends up pregnant again in the last book. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-with-pregnant-heroines/781671/42 "2017-03-09T20:48:58Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Nobody’s mentioned Rosemary’s Baby? Does she solve any problems in the book? In the movie she’s a victim, not a heroine. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-with-pregnant-heroines/781671/43 "2017-03-09T21:47:08Z")
Bella from twilight? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-with-pregnant-heroines/781671/44 "2017-03-09T23:03:54Z")
It’s been a while since I read it but I am pretty sure one of the main characters in Neal Stephenson’s 3-book series “The Baroque Cycle”, Eliza (a heroine among heroes), has a baby at one point. I think in the last book. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-with-pregnant-heroines/781671/45 "2017-03-15T03:27:12Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Gretchen and Julie in \*\*1632 \*\* by Eric Flint. (TV Tropes said another woman in the battle at the end was also pregnant, but I’m not sure which one. Rita, maybe?) Thanks for the rec, especially because it’s so timely - this book is free on Amazon at the moment: [https://smile.amazon.com/1632-Ring-Fire-Eric-Flint-ebook/dp/B00BEQLQNE/ref=sr\_1\_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489548346&sr=8-1&keywords=1632+eric+flint](https://smile.amazon.com/1632-Ring-Fire-Eric-Flint-ebook/dp/B00BEQLQNE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489548346&sr=8-1&keywords=1632+eric+flint) And thanks all for the other recs too! ---
**Author:** ![chicken\_wire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@chicken\_wire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chicken_wire)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-with-pregnant-heroines/781671/46 "2017-03-18T01:33:05Z")
_Light in August_ - William Faulkner. The heroine wanders around pregnant for a while, looking for unborn child’s daddy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-with-pregnant-heroines/781671.md?page=2)