<Tr> <Td> ← Previous "Lucy Becomes a Sculptress" </Td> <Td> Next → "Sales Resistance" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> List of I Love Lucy episodes </Td> </Tr> <P> "Lucy Goes to the Hospital" is an episode of the 1950s American television show I Love Lucy in which the title character, Lucy Ricardo, gives birth to her son, "Little Ricky," after a "predictably chaotic" sequence of events . Twelve hours before the broadcast, the actress who played Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, had given birth to Desi Arnaz, Jr. by cesarean section . The episode had actually been filmed on November 14, 1952 . </P> <P> The episode was the culmination of an unprecedented pairing of the fictional pregnancy of Lucy with the real - life pregnancy of Lucille Ball; "real - time pregnancy was fictively narrated for the first time on American television ." </P>

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