[Adventure Tropes] Rites of Passage Part I: Childbirth

Rites of Passage are very important rituals that can bring a group of PCs together and can also help establish the tone of a campaign, they also can be more than the mundane as in a fantasy setting (such as my example of Monte Cook's Land of the Diamond Throne) as the supernatrual and magic forces take root.

Childbirth (Rite of Passage)
When a women learns she is with child in the town of Far-Rough, at dawn on the first day of the next week the mother (and father if available), seek the "Blessings of the Green" usually granted by a servant of the land (druid, ranger, greenbond, totem warrior, or totem speaker); usually a close relative. Their parents are often invited as witnesses. As of late the First Speaker Rabin, anointing the mother with the holy oils of Rollonarch the Giving has substituted this.

Adventure Hooks:

Dark Blessing: Each PC is invited to the Ceremony when the mother is kidnapped by a servant of the Dark who wishes to perform the "Blessing of the Dark" on the unborn child in a lightless cavern on the last day of the week at midnight. The Father is killed in the assault and it is up to the PCs to save the women and her unborn child.

Split at Birth: In a supernatural and magical land birthing can be far more dangerous than this mothers birthing ceremony is disrupted when a oppositional twin (choose two opposing causes) is created, there are cries of abomination and destroying the child, the mother however contacts the PCs begging them to save her child and see it finds a good home.

Instant Baby just add water: The party is escorting the pregnant woman so that she can go see the servant of the land when her water breaks right there in a very inconvenient place (monster territory), at a very inconvenient time (a super-cell lightning storm is on the horizon)

Changeling: The mother swears this is not her child after but no one believes her but the PCs are able to deduce that this newborn is a doppelganger. Is this her child transformed into a doppelganger; or did the doppelganger steal her child and replace it with one of their own.

Death by Childbirth: The PCs are this woman’s only friends, the servant of the land is a PC who is there to give the blessing, her sister is in a far off secluded area and the trek is too dangerous. Yet, there is blood, agony and tragedy as the mother dies in childbirth now the PCs must decide what to do with the child. Take it to her sister? The local orphanage? Raise the child themselves? What about the Father?