I had a thought,
CrazyGeorge
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So reflecting back on Season 1 today in my office, and i thought of something interesting i wanted to share with everyone. So if you remember in Season 1, episode 5 when they are trapped in the attic (right after the statue gets thrown) the group talks about there feelings a bit, and Kenny offers Christa a drink. From what i understood in Season 1 she was pregnant at the time, she downs that whisky like a alcoholic. So if she was drinking while pregnant in season 1, with Omid, What do you think she would do , without Omid. From my interpretation she was trying to abort the child with alcohol. Maybe that is what happened to the other baby.
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That's just an interesting thought... Until they announce it, I'm going to assume that's what happened so I don't have to worry about not knowing.
I don't think so. According to Wikipedia it usually requires at least 15+ drinks per week average for a newborn to show symptoms of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; not to mention a helluva lot more to actually kill the poor bugger. Christa doesn't seem like she's in the throes of hardcore alcoholism, so I'd assume she was just accepting the drink against her better judgement.
The way she drank that whisky in Season 1... Seriously who can drink straight whisky while pregnant from the bottle for at least five seconds. Another fact that wasn't mentioned, was she absolutely sober mind after drinking that much. Kenny got plastered so you know it wasn't watered down. It makes more sense now, just trying to explain what i think the writers wrote for Christa, maybe it has been there the whole time, and we just haven't looked for the correct answers.
I don't think so. What she drank wasn't enough.
And if the baby died in her while it was already as developed as it was, it would have rot inside of her causing a massive infections and then death.
I am saying this is showing me behavior that could of led to the baby's death. I am not trying to imply by drinking that one time caused the baby to die.. Maybe it is a plot hole or maybe they were trying to set the story for another event later in the game and all of our questions will be answered.
We just don't know, however this is the only plausible theory i have, based on things from the game. How could she drink so much whisky and be able to jump a rooftop, or climb a sign without falling off without having a tolerance to alcohol.
I am not saying that i am right, i just wanted everyone to think about it. I find the speculation fascinating.
Also here is another thing to think about.
Remember in Season 2 I think episode 2, where Luke said " Your dad (Carlos) is the nicest guy i know, he wouldn't do anything not nice. To me this makes me think that he is more like Kenny but they wrote him the exact opposite of Kenny. So it was like maybe they were going to have him play Kenny's role, changed their mind and had Kenny in the episode instead. Then they didn't change the dialogue to reflect it or a plot hole. Who knows 0_o
OMGWTFWALKERBABY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycy9I1t1CvQ
Christa's pregnancy from season 1 is the same from season 2. The gap is eight months, which means that she was in her VERY early stages in season 1, and VERY late stages in season 2. I doubt having one drink would cause fetal alcohol syndrome, and even if she did drink after Omid died, the baby is going to be born so soon that I can't imagine there being a chance for any heavy effects.
I agree, having one drink probably wouldn't cause FAS, however what i was saying was the way she drank it, and her behavior afterwards indicated to me that she probably has a severe tolerance to alcohol, or a plot hole.
I was thinking this too, but what if the baby died in her stomach? Wouldn't it turn into a walker and eat her from the inside?
Are you sure it was whiskey? I thought it was wine.
Regardless, one long chug of the stuff won't harm the developing fetus. However, handling firearms most certainly can (ammo boxes have warning labels on them cautioning pregnant women from handling them; as the gun powder can be toxic to fetuses).
And Christa had been handling/firing firearms since we first saw her.
Maybe not. Wouldn't the baby have to breathe the contaminated air in order for that to happen? (so, as long as it remained in the womb, it was safe).
But Christa AND Omid have both breathed the contaminated air, and Christa is giving the baby oxygen to live inside her stomach, soo.. zawmbeh bebeh?
No teeth. And if you think about it, there's probably not a huge amount of difference between a walker baby and a non-walker baby in terms of intelligence and motivation. They're both pretty much just mindless eating machines. One just suckles a bit harder.
So, the baby wouldn't be able to grab the insides and rip it?
Well, it's still a baby. Babies are weak as fuck. Zombification might make them more aggressive, but I don't think they'll do that much more damage than a particularly fussy normal baby. I'm just guessing though.
Not very likely, no. If it had died in less than 20 weeks, she would have probably just miscarried/pregnancy would have terminated itself. It gets a little more complicated after 20 weeks though, because then the fetus has reached a state of growth so big that it has to be technically "birthed" if it has died. This means the fetus is stillborn rather than miscarried. If the fetus has died post 20 weeks, labor can induce itself, but the time between the fetus dying and labor may lead to an infection or massive blood clots, and that shit ain't good. If hypothetically the fetus dies and turns, then think about it. The first thing it would break would be its amniotic sac. This would "break her water" and after that the mom is pretty much fucked because within at most 3 days she will go into labor, and if she doesn't then there would be a very high chance for infection. And let's not forget there is a walker baby inside of her haha.
I doubt it would eat her from inside out or tear her apart for that matter, because newborns can't eat without choking, and they aren't very strong.
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Well, when you put it that way....
Maybe she was just in a yolo stage. You know, being stuck in an attic with a potential zombie may have encouraged it.
I wouldn't think too much about that, because that is something that can be written either way, know what i mean.
100% sure it was Whisky, apparently it is the only available alcoholic beverage available in Georgia. You can tell it is whisky because it says it on the bottle, and Chuck/Kenny both drink it, Kenny gets plastered at the house.
Regardless, the amount of whiskey Christa had wasn't enough to cause any harm to the baby; nor does it indicate a drinking problem on her part if she drinks a couple of mouthful and shows no real effect (all people handle their alcohol differently).
As for the drinking being an attempt at abortion via alcohol and the baby she's carrying at the beginning of season 2 being a second child - that's unlikely. Why would she abort one child and decide to have a second later? Also, the furthest along she'd be at that point would be around 6 months (she'd be showing, but she wouldn't be that huge; especially not when food sources are scarce. Christa looked like she was about to drop at any moment).
Well, if it was a still born, what harm could it do within the womb. It's a very confined space, so can't move much outside of squirming/kicking, and the baby has no teeth to bite.
What I think happened was that the baby was born normally - alive and kicking. But due to the lack of food source (how much milk can a malnourished woman produce?), the baby may have died due to malnutrition.
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You do know babies are surrounded by a thick membrane while inside the mother, right? And babies are not that strong.
I am not disputing that fact that that one instance of drinking did not cause her to have a miscarriage, what i am saying the behavior that she exhibited to me made me think she has/had a serious drinking problem, or plot hole. The amount of Whisky she drank the way she drank it, she didn't even cough. How she didn't slur her words at all, or stumble. She weighs probably maybe 150 lbs tops, she would of been feeling that.
From what i understand now, that their was only one child, not two. So i was mistaken on that.
Again, no two people handle their alcohol the same way. While some will stagger or slur their words after a single drink, others can have copious amounts of booze and still appear sober and in control. Christa is most likely the latter. Being able to handle your liquor is not an indication of an alcoholic.
And the way she drank from that bottle does not hint that she may have had a drinking problem. They were trapped in an attic, with a man who was bitten (none of them knew how long it would take for Lee to turn, and didn't know how long it would take to break through to the house next door or what may lay on the other side of that wall.
Her swig and how long she drank was more of a 'to Hell with it!' moment. Probably done on a whim with no thought to what she was doing in that moment.
I don't think that was what happened, she was so close to give birth...
Your thinking of tolerance, it is simple really, the more you drink the more you can handle.
I gave you guys a solid explanation on what i think happened to Christa's baby, based on evidence i found in the game. I am not making any of these things up, it isn't my opinion, it is the only logical conclusion that i can think of that has facts, to support what happened to Christa's Baby. If anyone has any ideas or thoughts, please share. I find the speculation fun.