Adopted!

Subverted by MegaLan's parents. The father had a vasectomy after This Troper's birth, making children impossible. They wanted child, they got a dog instead. The dogs are treated more like babies than babies are, and they're all older than This Troper's stepmother in dog years.

This Troper's aunt conceived but lost the baby a few years ago. The belief was that she would never be able to be pregnant again. So they set up the house for foster care, spoke with child services, were all ready to adopt. Given it's on this page, three guesses what happened next.

Averted by an extra check to make sure the vasectomy worked. The doctor-recommended check had turned out happily fertility-free, but my natural alignment of cautiously pessimistic made me get another check a while later. The message left by the doctor said it would've been a good weekend to go to Vegas, with those kinds of odds.

This troper's parents wanted a baby really badly, but had trouble because her mom was in her late 30's at the time. Just when they were about to give up, this troper was conceived.

This troper knows a couple who have had miscarriage after miscarriage. Poor girl...

This troper knows such a couple as well, but after about 14 years they finally had a baby girl. Thank God...

You could be describing my parents. They tried for over a decade to have a baby, suffering a stillbirth and a miscarriage at the very least and eventually resorting to IVF, which worked on their second attempt. This was in the late 80's only a few years after the first one, Louise Brown, was born. My parents tried once more when I was two and failed again; therefore I remain their only child.

Are you me?

This editor had a friend of a friend who got his girlfriend pregnant despite using both a condom and spermicidal lube. After all that, the girl ended up keeping the baby.

Just wondering did the baby look like him?

Original Poster: That's one question I regret not asking, since it didn't occur to me until a week later.

This trope played itself out in a weird way in my family. I was born about a year and a half after my parents got maried. Dad was still in Grad-school and he and mom were working two jobs to make ends meet. After the IT boom, my parents tried again for several years to have another kid, including various fertility treatments. After nothing worked, they gave up, only to have my little brother show up a year later.

My boyfriend is the result of this. His dad used a condom and his mom was on birth control, and I guess some sperm was bound and determined to get him into existence. And man oh man am I glad of that <3

My boyfriend was a Houdini too! I love him to death!

BTIsaac is living proof that this trope is TruthInTelevision. As things stand, his parents desperately wanted a child, for over ten years, and nothing happened. He wasn't born until after they've accepted that they may grow old without having any kids. Then in two years, came his sister.

{{Peteman}}'s aunt tried for years to conceive, but ended up adopting. Soon afterward, she conceived.

Describes both this troper's grandparents (who ended up adopting her mother) '''and''' this troper's parents (who had an "oopsie" baby).

When I was in my early teens, my parents tried over and over to get my mom pregnant again (they wanted more children). Eventually the doctors told her that due to complications from her last pregnancy, she was effectively infertile. So they eventually ended up adopting a two-year-old. Literally two months '''''to the day''''' after the adoption our family found out that...whoops! Turns out ''effectively'' infertile doesn't mean ''100%'' infertile.

This troper's parents were married for ''ten years'' without having a live baby--they had an awful time getting pregnant, and suffered at least two miscarriages. Eventually they decided they couldn't get pregnant, and started looking into adoption. Suddenly, with both parents in their mid-thirties and with the horrible odds described above, this troper apparently decided she ''really'' wanted to be born. Ironically, she required thirty-six hours and a C-section to get out at the end of the pregnancy.