אישה צעירה מתחזה לאישה הרה בכדי להימנע מפיטורים במקום עבודתה. לאחר שהיא מקבלת יחס מיוחד מחבריה לעבודה בשל הריונה, היא מנסה לשמור את הסוד במשך תשעה חודשים... האם היא תצליח לשמור על סודה? האם יגלו זאת מעסיקיה שם? וכיצד יתנהלו חייה בזמן "הריונה" המדומה, זאת תיראו בסרט המשעשע "לידה כואבת".
A 35-year-old woman fakes being pregnant to fit in with her friends.
Jane Morgan gives birth to her baby at the hospital. When she wakes up the next morning, the hospital tells her, that her son died at birth. However from ultrasound reading she had before, she knew she was having a girl. Now the hospital is stone-walling her, saying she is just in denial, due to her loss. Now she is trying to fight the system, to find evidence of the apparent mistake by the hospital. Only it wasn't the hospital's mistake. Nurse Rita Donohue is the one who made the switch. She faked a pregnancy to hang on to her roving boyfriend. But she grabbed the wrong baby, her boyfriend wants a son, so now she's faking a second pregnancy, and making plans to get another baby.
In 1984, a woman with a phantom pregnancy is exiled to a remote Catskills inn where she becomes convinced that she is the target of a mysterious woman in the woods who will stop at nothing to be a mother.