Rena Sofer
(Quinn, B&B)
“When I was giving birth to Rosabel, I tried to do it natural and without any drugs, and then after 11½ hours, there were no options for it to be done without drugs. I needed to have drugs, so they finally gave me the drugs and I tried to push her out and within 45 minutes of pushing, I needed to have an emergency C-section, and it was like, ‘After all that? After all those hours of pain and anguish, I could have just gone and had it scheduled and taken her out?’ ”
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Tracey E. Bregman (Lauren, Y&R)
“I told [my son] Austin when I was eight weeks pregnant, that I was pregnant. Austin was 4 at the time. He woke up the next morning and said, ‘I spoke to God last night and he said you are having a healthy baby boy.’ When we were naming Landon, his name had been Parker through my pregnancy. Austin kept telling me that wasn’t his name, and what was he supposed to call him? Austin and I went to the doctor when I was eight months pregnant and in the elevator going up, we met this mom with her baby boy named Landon. Austin turned to me and said, ‘Well, that’s his name,’ pointing to my belly, and that’s how Landon was named!”
Kassie DePaiva
(Eve, DAYS)
“I was about eight months pregnant and had to play the death of the baby on camera. That was very difficult to play. It was when Kelly ran Blair
off of the
road [on ONE LIFE TO LIVE], killing her unborn
child.”
Arianne Zucker (Nicole, DAYS)
“Oh, I loved my pregnancy! I just had the most beautiful pregnancy. Probably that moment I found out was the most memorable. At that point, I was 34 and really ready to have a baby. I knew, too. I was like, ‘I know it! I know it! I can tell. I feel it!’ And then from that moment on, I was so unbelievably happy.”
Christel Khalil
(Lily, Y&R)
“I went to see Paranormal Activity 2 while I was pregnant because I love scary movies, but I didn’t even think about that whenever I feel scared or have adrenaline pumping through me, the baby will feel that, too. Throughout the entire movie, I’m jumping and screaming and by the end, I realized that his entire body had moved to one side of my stomach and was painful to me. I felt so guilty that I’ve never seen a scary movie since.”
Lisa LoCicero (Olivia, GH)
“We had been trying to get pregnant for years, going through all the highs and lows and money hemorrhaging of fertility treatments and all of that, and we had just about given up. Then this little Chihuahua was abandoned in our neighborhood and I took in this little thing who was so traumatized that all he did was quiver and shake and I carried him around in [firstborn] Luke’s old baby sling. The very next week, I got pregnant with Verity. I truly believe it had something to do with mommying this little dog, who we kept and became our Tuco.”