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I Guess I Can't Argue With That

Sarah Wayne Callies on Her “Time Bomb” Pregnancy on The Walking Dead

by Jamie Frevele | 2:27 pm, November 27th

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“The effect it has on [Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln)] is more about the need to stay, not just because there’s safety, but the need to stay close to the only person who practices medicine, veterinarian or no, and the need to make things right with Hershel (Scott Wilson) and the need to be able to make a home there. The pregnancy heightens all of that because Lori is not going to be able to run forever. There’s a time bomb growing in her.” — Sarah Wayne Callies of AMC‘s The Walking Dead, providing the most uplifting assessment ever about pregnancy during a zombie apocalypse: Her fetus is a time bomb. The show has reached its mid-season finale before going on a hiatus until February, so tune in tonight at 9:00 pm to see what happens next in the saga of “Holy crap, there is no good that can come of any part of this pregnancy at all, no matter how you slice it.”

(via The Daily Blam)

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  • http://twitter.com/Super_Widget Joanna

    I know it’s the zombie apocalypse and everything, but that woman could do with a sandwich.

  • Jenny Cabotage

    I think our culture has a tendency to make pregnancy a bigger deal than it is sometimes. Don’t get me wrong, I know there are lots of possible complications – gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, and of course any potential problems with the birth itself. But it’s not like Lori is going to be physically incapable of walking around for the next nine months. Heck, you guys just covered the story of that woman who ran a marathon right before giving birth a while back. As long as there aren’t any serious complications, women can be mobile and capable for most or all of their pregnancy, and even the extra food they need isn’t that much. An extra 100 to 200 calories a day, over what they’d need if they weren’t pregnant.

    Granted, I wouldn’t want to get pregnant in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, but it’s not a guaranteed disaster either. 

  • http://twitter.com/Super_Widget Joanna

    I think it’s more the fact that their other son almost died and the little girl is missing.  Her concern would more to do with being able to survive and protect an infant at the same time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1705628571 Nichole Filbert

    Honestly, kinda glad I’ve been missing the episodes. Bitch Magazine has a great article on the subject, and how other characters react to her pregnancy. It’s disheartening.

  • http://amidstdancers.blogspot.com/ Shard Aerliss

    Yeah, so they’re supposed to be skinny because they’ve been rationing their food and all… so why do the men all still look chunky while the women are all bone bags?

  • http://amidstdancers.blogspot.com/ Shard Aerliss

    Honestly sick and tired of pregnancy being a plot point/McGuffin recently. I suppose it’s part of the positive development of visual fiction; creators dealing with real life events that women experience, from a woman’s point of view. That’s a good thing… but I can’t help but want to grab the remote every time it happens.

    I ESPECIALLY don’t need any more birthing scene.

  • http://amidstdancers.blogspot.com/ Shard Aerliss

    But if a problem does occur she is pretty much screwed, to use the vernacular. Pre-eclampsia (followed by eclampsia), haemorrhaging (of all sorts of places), breach birth and other complications, DVT… twins! There’s no real world statistics comparable to her situation (even in third world countries women will have elder, experienced midwives to help them) but maternal mortality rates have historically been recorded as high as 40% (in extreme cases, but I think zombie apocalypse counts as X-treme To The Max).

    I wouldn’t like those odds in her position.And THEN, if all goes well and you both don’t die of sepsis you have screaming baby during a zombie apocalypse when the Zs are attracted to noise. Fun times!

  • http://twitter.com/Super_Widget Joanna

    Not to mention, we’re not sure who the father is =o

  • http://amidstdancers.blogspot.com/ Shard Aerliss

    Yup, more fuel for Shane’s angry, angry fire.