Breaking Dawn - Ch. 7 - Unexpected

[kisuvampyr]

Book: Breaking Dawn
CHAPTER(S): Ch. 7.- Unexpected
Synopsis:Bella has another nightmare and wakes up to find that Edward has gone hunting, thats when her love affair with fried chicken starts, a short lived love affair since the chicken betrays her about 5 minutes later. Suddenly she's got food poisining and it takes a little blue box of tampons

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[evrybdysdarling]

Since I've started re-reading BD I noticed that this is the chapter in which she started to lose me. I think it's because I read on the Lexicon in one of the correspondence pages why Stephenie has said in the past that vampires can't have children.

"And since we’re talking physiology…I’ve had tons of people ask if vampires can have babies. The answer is no. When someone becomes a vampire, it’s as if they are frozen exactly as they are in that moment. His or her (and we’ll go with her because it’s more central to this discussion) body no longer experiences change. Hair does not grow, nor do fingernails (if you cut your hair, you’re stuck. That’s why Alice’s hair is so short-it was growing back from being shaved in the asylum). This applies to all changes-so a woman would no longer have any kind of ovulation cycle. If she were already pregnant when she was bitten, both she and the fetus would be frozen in that state. Which would really suck-pregnant for eternity? I’m shuddering at the thought."

I think that's why the pregnancy thing really bothers me. I don't mind that she alters "traditional" vampire lore, but when she contradicts herself it pisses me off.