Can we stop using pregnancy-ending falls as plot points? Slipping on a bar of soap isn't enough to cause a miscarriage. Yes, Downton Abbey script writers, you went for the stale trope when you could have given her German Measles and a stillbirth. @allgoodthingsmd.bsky.social #WritingCommunity
Granted, you can get placental abruption or other traumatic, pregnancy-ending injuries. But even in car accidents it’s rare. Having never seen downton abbey, i can say that i would much rather see the effects of pre-vaccine devastation than, yes, the low hanging trope
She slipped and fell in the bathroom, lost the baby, the last chance at an heir to the title and fortune.
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