Okay, so there was a big reveal during Grey’s Anatomy’s “Start Me Up” episode, but I’m a tad skeptical about it because, when main characters have been pregnant in the past — or suspected they were pregnant — the pregnancies ended early on, with the exception of Bailey, whose kid you never see any more now that she’s dating that guy from Rescue Me.
Whether this latest pregnancy will be a keeper, or simply a mechanism to complicate and maneuver a relationship into thornier dramatic territory, remains an open question.
The irony of the surprise announcement that Callie and McSteamy’s throw-away sex resulted in Callie getting pregnant is that the married couple who has been aggressively trying to have a baby — Meredith and Derek — is having difficulty getting pregnant. The episode was bookended by pregnancy issues: In the first scene, there was that melancholy moment when, while staring at a negative pregnancy test, Meredith lamented her “hostile” uterus while Derek played the optimistic cheerleader. In the last scene, as Arizona was begging Callie to get back together, Callie dropped a bomb on her: “You want another chance? … Today I found out that I’m pregnant with Mark’s baby. How ’bout now?”
As surprising as it was, you can’t say that Callie’s pregnancy came out of nowhere. When McSteamy’s previously unmentioned teenage daughter Sloan showed up pregnant last season and he glommed onto the idea of becoming a father with ferocity just as Callie was having a potentially relationship-ending battle with Arizona over Callie’s intense desire for a child, that was some major foreshadowing. Remember that scene from last season when Callie and Mark told Sloan that they’d raise her son for her because Sloan didn’t think she was capable of doing so? Mark and Callie passionately argued that they’d be perfect. “We’re a family, sort of,” Callie said. Of course that didn’t happen and the baby, at Arizona’s urging, was put up for adoption.
But now, provided that Callie’s pregnancy continues successfully through to delivery, Mark and Callie may actually get their chance at parenthood. As for whether Callie and Arizona will reunite — they’re giving the previously on-off Meredith-Derek relationship a run for its money — I think they’re doomed if they do get back together. Throw a baby, and all of its overwhelming demands, into an already shaky relationship where one of the partners never wanted a child and wants her life to proceed in a certain way — never mind the fact that there’ll be a dad’s involvement too — and it seems, on paper anyway, as though a Callie and Arizona romance can’t last … if a Cal-Steamy baby is actually born.
Why am I cynical and question whether we’ll ever see a Cal-Steamy baby? Cristina Yang was pregnant with Burke’s baby but it wound up being an ectopic pregnancy for which Cristina had to have emergency surgery to remove. It was once suspected that Meredith was pregnant when she was dating the vet and McDreamy in season three, but it turned out to be appendicitis. Meredith famously found out she was pregnant last season, only to lose the pregnancy minutes after she thought that her husband had died. So is this Callie pregnancy a ploy? I hope not.
The other major storyline of note was the fall-out after folks around Seattle Grace learned of the relationship between Teddy and her former patient/now husband, the ailing Henry.
“You married a patient to give him insurance?” shouted a gobsmacked Chief Webber, who, you may recall, carried on a long-time affair with another married surgeon back in the day. “Have you lost your mind? … It’s highly unethical! … We save people’s lives everyday without marrying them.”
Watching Teddy finally grow weary of Webber’s public harassment — what was Webber trying to accomplish, seeing that Teddy’d already gotten married? — and dish it back made me want to root for her, even though I agree with Webber that the marriage was impetuously ill-advised. “Everywhere I look in this hospital there’s inappropriate relationships,” Teddy said loudly. “Grey and Shepherd. Hunt and Yang. The other Grey and Sloan.”
Best moment of the episode was when Rescue Me’s Daniel Sunjata, who plays the nurse, Eli, chimed in by saying, “Dr. Bailey’s dating a nurse.” (Love that the normally uber-cautious Bailey is reveling in her very own “inappropriate” relationship which she said she’s sure won’t last because Eli’s the type of guy who’d leave a flirty, dirty note for her in a patient’s chart.)
So, Grey’s fans, what to make of this week’s pregnancy and relationship drama?
Clacked by Meredith O'Brien 
on Jan 14, 2011 @ 11:45 EST5EDT
Pregnancy is the kiss of death on a Shonda Rhimes show. Between Grey’s and Private Practice, there have been at least six pregnancies of main characters (Christina, Meredith, Bailey, Sloan, Violet, and Maya). Of the babies that even made it to delivery, they all still faced incredible life and death circumstances upon their arrival into the world (crazy baby snatchers, car accidents, and mothers flat out refusing to give birth). Heck, in the same episode that Charlotte even considered the possibility of someday, maybe, thinking about having kids, she got brutally attacked.
Conclusion: I fear greatly for Callie’s safety.
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