Kirstie's Baby

[Miss Mid-City]

Somehow it doesn’t surprise me that we weren’t given a more truthful scenario … My sister is a midwife of more than 20 years’ service – I’ll ask her view on this one.

Sounds like another situation where the script writers may well have consulted with an expert about the most likely outcome and then decided to go with their own ideas.

After the debacle of the Helen and Rob criminal trial hastily followed by the conclusion of the family proceedings I’ve kind of given up on The Archers being a “reality docu-drama”. It’s all drama. I’m still a fan but it bares little resemblance to any reality or truth I might recognise.

Having said that, I’m still sorry that Kirstie lost her baby … !

[YorkshireLass]

This may help

http://www.uhs.nhs.uk/Media/Controlleddocuments/Patientinformation/Pregnancyandbirth/Havinganextremelyprematurebaby-patientinformation.pdf

But Southampton is a tertiary hospital & the NHS is many things but a national health service it is not. What you are offered and outcomes vary hugely depending not only where you happen to be and other factors, including even which medic happens to be on.

[kennykoalabear]

I don’t know why but this storyline makes me so angry. Why can’t anyone in the Bridge farm branch of Ambridge ever receive any happiness? What have the storyline Gods got against Kirsty, Helen, Tom and family to ensure they can’t have more than 2 weeks of happiness at a time?

[Davey_Speedstar]

Is it me, or did Kirsty’s words seem very final last night (13/02/2017). That this is the final nail in the coffin for her and Tom (yet another final nail!!!). I got the feeling that she’s going to stay with her parents, never to return.
Although I hope not as Kirsty is one of my favourite characters, and how will Roy run Grey Gables with just Linda, and silent Kathy now there’s no more Caroline (Or will there be a new Caroline???)

[Ms Bubbles]

I thought maybe this was a stop to Tom and Kirsty getting back together as there was no way it was going to happen before unless something life-changing happened. Maybe this was it. I don’t know. I hope Caroline is not replaced, I think that would be a bit tasteless and disrespectful.

[Allie1804]

Hi all

I think Lucy may be right that the trajectory of the story could have been suddenly changed due to Annabelle Dowler’s commitments outside The Archers though guess we will never know. Having gone through miscarriages (though not late ones thankfully which I imagine are even more traumatic) I found people’s objections to the story understandable (on the grounds of feeling like we and the characters have had too much misery) but I also felt it was a bit odd. Yes the story-line feels abrupt and unnatural but as Royfield said, that is the nature of it. Shit happens! You have your trajectory all planned out and then BAM,everything changes like one of those snowflake shakers being turned upside down and shaken up to re-settle in a new and unwelcome pattern. I think they might have been able to play it that the baby had a chance of survival but as those stats showed it was small – I don’t suppose the script writers think that we will remember exactly when conception was and therefore be able to work out the gestation and call them on the possible inaccuracy of the story-line. On the plus side it’s neem beautifully written and performed and I am sure I am not alone in having tears of recognition fall as a result of listening to the characters go through what I did whether its 10,20, 30 or more years since it happened.

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