What to Expect When You're Expecting

What to Expect When You're Expecting is a 2012 romcom film that focuses on five couples who are prospective parents. It is based on the pregnancy manual of the same name.

The couples in the film include:

• Jules and Even: Jules is a TV fitness guru and Even is a dance show star whose lives take an unexpected turn upon finding out that Jules is pregnant.
• Wendy and Gary: Wendy is a baby-crazy author who finds out that she is pregnant. Her husband is struggling to not be outdone by his father.
• Skylar and Ramsey: Skylar is expecting twins -- while her much older husband, Ramsey, can't resist rubbing the fact in Gary's (his son) face.
• Holly and Alex: Holly wants to adopt a baby from overseas, while Alex has his doubt. Alex seeks the company of a "dude" support group.
• Rosie and Marco: Rosie and Marco are rival food truck chefs who unexpectedly meet each other. Rosie gets pregnant in the heat of the moment, but is reluctant to forgive Marco for standing him up back in high school.

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Tropes used in What to Expect When You're Expecting include:

• Babies Make Everything Better
• Instant Birth, Just Add Water: Skylar has the easiest birth of the lot, to ridiculous levels. She sneezes and that's enough of a push needed.
• Lamaze Class: Averted - not one in sight!
• My Secret Pregnancy: Rosie never seems to tell her friends about her pregnancy
  • We might not have seen it, but it can be assumed they know. She was showing, if not much, when she had her miscarriage, and her friends comment on her subsequent depression, as though they know the source. One of her coworkers also observes her staring sadly at parents and children and seems sympathetic.
• Panicky Expectant Father: Alex and Gary
• Screaming Birth: Jules
• Surprise Pregnancy: Rosie