Baby!fic, wtf?
Why is SGA baby!fic almost always happy? Or rather, slash-centered baby!fic, as I haven't seen much pregnancy/childrearing fic centered around the Atlantis women, but I'd like to hope it's a bit more realistic. I can think of one mpreg where Rodney had an abortion, but other than that one, mpreg or not, the boys always keep the baby. I understand that babies are cute and make for an easy catalyst to throw a couple together, but why not go into the complexities of the situation? Characters we can assume are already overworked would be staying up until all hours taking care of an infant, and then once the kiddo is walking, they'd have to redo the security protocols to keep it in safe areas of the city. And there's still a good chance it's not going to survive the next contagion/attack on the city. And if it does, that's a lifetime of therapy to look forward to. Giving it to family back on Earth or giving it up to the Athosians (you know, before the season 4 surprise) would be the best answer, but that's always discarded because "he's so cute and he's mine and that would be like, hard and stuff, and besides, babies are fun!"
That's not to say there aren't good baby!fics out there; A Beautiful Lifetime Event comes to mind as an example that shows how much a kid really changes life. This little moment of introspection is brought by reading yet another fic (by an author I like!) where character 1 has completely valid reasons for wanting to give the child up, and then keeps it 'cause his boyfriend wants to. There's no way that's healthy.
That's not to say there aren't good baby!fics out there; A Beautiful Lifetime Event comes to mind as an example that shows how much a kid really changes life. This little moment of introspection is brought by reading yet another fic (by an author I like!) where character 1 has completely valid reasons for wanting to give the child up, and then keeps it 'cause his boyfriend wants to. There's no way that's healthy.