Bella's Pregnancy

[debussygirl]

Yes, that's the only concrete thing. But just focusing on the mother's needs because of her species was only looking at half the picture and for a vampire doctor not to look at all sides was just really wrong. I would say probably about 75% of the readers got that what Bella needed was blood, even me who has only had high school biology.

[ringswraith]

I figured it out after a while. If I remember correctly it didn't take them that long (for Jacob to make the comment that started it all)- she'd been home what, a couple of days since she got pregnant? /shrug

Perhaps someone should ask Stephenie Meyer for the real answer.

[edward4ever]

Well, it did make for a more interesting pregnancy. I mean, we all knew that Edward would change Bella before the baby could kill her but by doing it this way--Carlisle and Edward clueless as to what the baby needed--it made us wonder (some of us) what this "thing" was, just like Edward and Jacob thought, and what it was going to do to her. If they had figured it out and gave her blood right away, the only tension would have been centered around...why it's growing so fast.

PLUS, the gestation period was just under ONE month! That's not a whole lot of time to come up with answers, especially since usually the mother has everything the baby needs to grow and survive. It was too short of a time period to figure out that Bella didn't.

I thought writing it this way, SM made the delivery that much more exciting for me. I was on the edge of my seat reading it!

And then, of course, as is Jacob's way, at the very height of the tension, he makes me crack up laughing:

BD pg 353-354
"'What are you waiting for?' I choked out breathlessly, pumping her heart again. One. Two. Three. Four.
'Take the baby,' Edward said urgently.
'Throw it out the window.' One. Two. Three. Four.

[BellaJayne]

Did anybody else read the chapter "Unexpected" and actually feel horrified? I almost had a premonition that the pregnancy would be a bad thing or at least that it was going to be really really bad for Bella physically. I was reading her cooing over her brand new bump and in my head I was going "Nooo!!! - you'll die!"
Course I didnt factor in the twilight quote -

"So you have to be dying to become a vampire?"
"No, that's just Carlisle. He'd never do this to someone who had another choice."

As jazzed as I am that it all turned out fine, and as much as I love the way the story went, I was thinking that Renesmee may have been some form of demon child for a while.

(I didn't like that idea of course!)

xx

[TeamEdward1918]

I felt the same way reading it initially. Even somewhat the second time around during that part, it's just so stressful and I think I feed off of Edward's reaction, which stresses me more, lol. I think I just had such a vision in my head of the immortal children, so that's what I was thinking was in Bella. Some demon baby. It really freaked me out at first too, so you're not alone

[roseaurora]

I was so sure that the baby was going to be a bad thing... I was totally cheering Jacob on in my head when he went downstairs to kill the "thing" that killed Bella!

[TeamEdward1918]

^^ Ditto! It was so odd being on Jacob's side there! I was like "GO JAKE!" for the first time in the series, lol....And after Edward hears Nessie for the first time and Jake says at that moment, he knew he was alone...I felt the exact same way. Alone, on the outside, and he was the only one I had left

Of course, I know better now. But that's how I felt at the time

[debussygirl]

Am I the only one who could see the pretty baby growing inside of Bella? Was I the only one who loved that little nudger before she was born?!
I could just totally side with Bella then. This baby was a combination of her and Edward so how could she possibly allow anyone to harm that baby?

[TeamEdward1918]

Am I the only one who could see the pretty baby growing inside of Bella? Was I the only one who loved that little nudger before she was born?!
I could just totally side with Bella then. This baby was a combination of her and Edward so how could she possibly allow anyone to harm that baby?

No, actually I feel like I was in the minority

My best friend loved her from the very beginning too

[debussygirl]

Really? Because most people I know wanted her to get "it" out.