Oh Deer...

Recovering Whumpee who is pregnant, but isn't ready for the baby. Maybe whumpee hasn't even processed it– maybe they leave the planning, and the baby names all to their partner.

Maybe they don't know how they feel about the baby, but they can't tell their partner or caretaker this because whumpee knows how much it means to them. Maybe they were only able to get pregnant from a curse or an experiment, and their partner really wanted to try. Or maybe the baby was just something they didn't really want, but their partner did.

And how could they not, in the heat of the moment? Maybe whumpee thought they wanted this, too.

But now a baby is on the way, and whumpee is feeling even more isolated and mortified at how their body is changing. And the mood swings, the sickness, all just brings round memories of their past that they've been trying to forget. Do they really want this baby?

Maybe whumpee was able to ignore it for the first few weeks, first trimester even. Like how they could ignore their scars just out of view. But now they look down and can see undeniable proof of what they're going through. What they're still on the bridge on even as a baby comes closer and closer to being due.

The way their body changes, it will never be the same. The growing horror day after day, hating looking at themselves. And all the sensations, the movement they feel that is cute when the pregnancy is wanted, but absolutely horrifying to someone who doesn't want it.

If a whumpee is seen by other people, then all these questions, everyone cooing and congratulating, acting like it's the best thing that will ever happen to them while whumpee wants to crawl out of their body

The mental effect! Even in a wanted pregnancy, hormones are wack, during and after. Conflicting feelings, not wanting the baby but battling with the hormones telling them otherwise. Post-partum depression or psychosis.

The constant reminder that whumper did this to them. And a creepy whumper using this as an excuse for more control, manipulation, turning it into we'll be such a happy family, you'll be such a good parent, making whumpee feel trapped

Or, whumpee knowing whumper will abuse the child, too, and it doesn't matter how much whumpee loves or loathes the thing growing inside them, they can't let this monster get to them. They have to get out, they have to.

The fear of, and agonising pain that comes with birth. The suffocating dread that grows stronger and stronger the closer it comes

Or a whumpee who doesn't know at all! A cryptic pregnancy takes them completely by surprise so there is no time to prepare, no time to even process what's happening. Does whumper panic too? Do they try to help or is whumpee left alone? Whumper might not even believe them at first

and for non-gestational parents, too. perinatal mood disorders are more common in gestational parents because of the hormone shifts and physical trauma of pregnancy/birth, but they’re also fairly common in parents who didn’t go through that, because they’re still experiencing the stress, lack of sleep, and major lifestyle changes of caring for a newborn.

Whumpee who is married and gets the news when their team is beside them. They're only 6 weeks along but the timeline doesn't match up. It aligns from when they were with Whumper.

No one says it, but everyone knows. More happened to Whumpee than they knew about.

Leader staring at the screen in blank-faced horror before they storm out of the clinic muttering vows to kill the bastard.

And Whumpee has to watch everyone come to this realization alongside them while wrestling with the sick feeling in their stomach as memories are revived.

They start having cravings. Sure, most of them are normal. Then they have some they can't place. And they try it. Surely it's something inconspicuous, like an orange and pickle combo or a type of pizza they haven't had in years.

They don't remember it before, but they take a few bites and it brings back memories. Memories they've blocked out or just refuse to think about– maybe because the thing they ate was the only food they could get a hold on back then. Maybe a food they were force fed. Maybe something gross but the only thing around.

"He's not well enough for that!"

"Fuck, she's burning up."

"Wow, he's, like, proper sick."

"In case you hadn't noticed, she's actually really ill. She should be in bed!"

"Hm, he definitely has a temperature."

Bonus points if it's followed by the sickie (grumpily) going "I can hear you, you know".

Whumper suddenly stopped their channel surfing and grinned.

"That's what I was looking for! Let's watch the news, shall we pet?"

Whumpee nodded timidly and focused on the screen, where a stranger was talking to an interviewer about a missing person, apparently missing for months by now, pleading to whoever may be watching to please search for them.

Whumper subtly looked over to whumpee, and upon seeing their lack of reaction chuckled and pet their head gently.

"What do you think about that whumpee?"

Whumpee took a moment to process the question before quietly replying "..I hope they find who they're looking for soon, master..."

Whumper could barely contain their joy at the response, it was just what they had been hoping for!

"Um... sorry if I remembered wrong...but... today's your birthday, right? Happy birthday!"