EasterEnders Baby Swap Story Comes to its Conclusion this Friday

[GenevieveHawkings]

So after all the furore I see that the show's priducers stuck to their guns and let it run until Easter, as they originally planned to.

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1375985/Kats-cradle-EastEnders-couple-Moon-reunited-son-thought-dead.html

Must have been a Freudian slip - just noticed I called it "EasterEnders" in the title!

I don't mind the storyline but it has got boring now.

Oh, had they wanted to run it until Christmas? I hadn't heard that and thought they only wanted it to go on until Easter.

It's got extremely boring now and I'm glad it's coming to a conclusion. The sooner that bloody Ronnie disappears from our screens the better as far as I'm concerned. She's absolutely dire.

I thought it was planned to go until Easter as well.
She is dire. I got so sick of the Danielle storyline and now we've had this.
I still love 'stenders though.

OOH it is the most boring storyline ever in the history of soap. I loved Ronnie, thought she was the best soap character ever - becasue of her relationship with her Father. The episode when her father beat her up at the house in Weymouth was amazing. Ronnie's character was ruined the day that Danielle died. Why couldn't they have let Ronnie marry the love of her life, gorgeous jack, have a baby and be happy for a while? Killing her father off was a big mistake too. I read that is one of the reasons Babs left the series.

and Christmas? oh thank feck for MN! lol

so glad it is ending, have felt so bad for Kat and Alfie

I do think they had planned to let it run until Easter - not Christmas.

I don't think the producers had any intention of bowing to any pressure from anyone about bringing it to a swifter conclusion. They were just paying lip service by listening to complaints and the BBC's PR department probably told them exactly how to play it.

Maybe they did a little rewrite just to placate the complainants, on the advice of thier PR gurus but that was about it.

It was supposed to be a 2 year storyline initially, was the reason Shane and Jessie came back. From what I know, the reveal was Christmas with the fall out lasting through the next year. I daresay Ronnie was to be carted off somewhere to give Sam W a break then she would return to the sq 'cured' and miserable as ever happy. That was the word on the street early on anyway

Is anyone else slightly annoyed that Ronnie will be going to prison next week? Surely if they are going down the PND route she would be assessed in a hospital before the mention of prison?

What they said to us was that they knew Sam was leaving first and did this for the build up to her exit. They have brought it forward but not by much, a matter of weeks.

I have to admit I'm skeptical.

One of the most inacurate storylines in a soap - and, yes, I do know its a telly programme and not real life. The producer (Brian something or other) even came on for an online chat on MN - he was as useful as a chocolate fireguard and hardly answered a question.

Without dredging up all the other threads that started when this storyline first began (and believe me many of us bereaved mums were flamed and ridiculed for 'making too much fuss') the very, very last thing a bereaved Mum does is swop her dead child for a live child. We all tried googling to find out when was the last time this had happened in the UK and I dont think anybody found any information.

Thank God this story is coming to an end. I had heard they would carry it on until at least Christmas but, for whatever reason, I am glad its about to finish.

i saw the front of a mag today and it said baby joy ... but not for long - jesus whats going to happen now?

Shabba I was disappointed with Bryan, he was the more helpful of the two when we were there.

No one has found evidence of this ever happening but John and Bryan made out that they got advice on it from a senior midwife who also trains students and a psychiatrist again skeptical because I think they were crossing over SIDS answers and swap answers. I know FSIDS and MIND have spoken out against it.

The only thing I ever wanted was my own boys - not next doors kids!! slaps her own face for commenting on an EE thread again

Me too. I didn't like being made to care for my newborn niece who was 5 days older than my daughter because I knew I should be doing it with my baby and couldn't and it made me angry that her parents weren't doing it when I'd just been robbed of the chance but I was never jealous of her existence anymore than I could be of the existence of an adult and I certainly never wanted her!

A MH nurse commented on the old thread and said that she could only imagine this happening with postnatal (can't spell it on my phone) psychosis and then they'd be convinced it really was their baby. Someone else pointed out all the stories of women snatching and passing a baby off as their own are either women who have previous MH history or they're doing it to keep a man (Blood Brothers?)

sorry if I say the wrong thing here, but what annoys me is how Ronnie is now a "baddie" it is so hard to watch and feel sorry for her, if you then see the pain Kat is going through.
I want to feel for ronnie, but the way she is portrayed just makes me angry. and sadly I am sure I am not alone. they missed an opportunity to educate people.

No you are not saying the wrong thing at all. I have watched this week and Im still shouting at Ronnie 'give Tommy back NOW!!' This was a good opportunity to show it like it really is - the bereavement of a baby/child and severe post natal depression.

The horrible thing is they've done an amazing job of the SIDs story with Kat and Alfie. If they'd left it as that they'd be winning awards and praise from everyone. Jesse and Shane have been brilliant. Everyone at Elstree said they were impressed with Shane over this and it's changed their view of him.

This has robbed that element.

I am glad it is coming to an end but it is still a shite story line . They have done a good job showing how losing a child affects parents but as always it will be finished too quickly . They will get their baby back .

Do they know how many parents are out there dreaming about that moment and knowing it will never bloody happen ?

Mum said that after she lost her 4th baby to stillbirth she thought she was at risk of taking a baby; so got Dad to acompany her everywhere for a time.

Agree it's been in place of a lot of potentially valuable storylines.

ive been saying to dh, if theyd have stuck with kat and alfie- SIDS and ronnie and jack- PND it would have worked really well. ronnie had believable pnd symptoms, and they could havwe had two great story arcs. as it was, they bolloxed up one shite one. agree that BK was utter shite. i want to know the name of the mw they consulted about club foot/weight. so i can avoid!