I'm pointing out that it seems to matter to the BBC. Doctor Who isn't Eastenders, after all.

Very true, there's a lot of unmarried families nowadays.

If Clara has a child it can't have the surname Pink unless she changes her name by deed poll.

Clara being pregnant is too obvious. Perhaps it was one of the previous Clara's in different time zones who had a Pink baby?

But everything about series 8 ended up being too obvious?! So on that basis, it will be I guess

So what does the "Three Months" Post It Note refer to if not how long she has been pregnant or how long she has to live?


All the other notes either were people/places from her adventures or things like "Truth" "Lying" "Just Tell Him".

Perhaps because she'd been lying to Danny about her travels for three months?

Gary

It may well have mattered to the bbc in 1963, but I very much doubt it does now. As others have said unmarried parents are probably as common, if not even more so than married parents. The bbc wouldn't treat something as taboo when it is something that is in no way seen as such in today's society.

She could still give their child Danny's surname, even if hers remains Oswald.

Yes, lying was the big thing. Danny said to her, you can tell how much someone means to you by the lies they tell you. Although she loved him, she could not give up travelling with the Doctor and she needed to tell him the truth of what she had been doing and why.

They would absolutely allow a main character to be pregnant with their deceased boyfriend's baby. They might absolutely draw the line on that character being involved in dangerous adventures while pregnant - even when Amy was pregnant, the avatar wasn't.

I'm not sure you can actually. Unless the father goes to register the birth with the mother he cannot be acknowledged as the father of the child on the birth certificate (unless he is married to the mother). Obviously this is to stop women claiming any man they fancy is the father of their child. As Danny is dead this can't happen. So if Clara wanted 'Pink' as a surname she would have to legally change her name.

I'm just gonna quote the Moff to point out that it really doesn't matter if they're married or not to the BBC.

"We never really got 'round to organizing a wedding. Thought maybe a whole human being would be easier."

Being registered as the father has no bearing on what the child's name can be. Whether or not you're down on the paper, the mother could still use your surname, or her surname, or even make up a new one altogether.

http://www.dad.info/expecting/legal-...-the-baby-have

I hope not as we've done that storyline with Amy but I suspect she might be.

Really? Amy was pregnant but an avatar and had no idea she was expecting... Clara might be and it would be a way of writing her out of the show...

The way things are nowadays, I would be very surprised if they hadn't, unless one or both of them had devout religious or moral reasons not to, and there's been no evidence of that elsewhere in their characters!
They had plenty of time while Clara wasn't with the Doctor, we've even seen them sitting watching TV together.

Personally I don't really care whether Clara turns out to be pregnant with Danny's child or not, although it has been heavily hinted at that she is.
If it is the case, as she's apparently never managed to tell Danny that she's expecting I would have thought she would have taken the opportunity to at least try and tell him when he sent the boy back through the portal, and we didn't see her try to do so.
Of course she had plenty or opportunity while she was talking to him as a Cyberman, assuming she knew then, but perhaps it just wasn't the right moment!

Clearly clara is pregnant with baby Rani

There were possible hints throughout S8 8.4 Listen Clara and 12 meet a man Orson Pink who is, was or could be a future descendent of both Danny Pink and Clara Oswald.
8.6 Kill The Moon Clara is asked if she wants children and she says she does.
8.11 Dark Water durring her grief over Dannys death 12 says she is a "mess of chemicals". Could her emotions have been hiding changing hormones in a early pregnancy ?.
Finally in DIH Clara says she and Danny will be fine to the doctor. Could have been more then just a lie. Maybe she was refering to her unborn baby as little Danny or Danielle ?. If she had just realised she is pregnant or had a 12 week check up. Guess we don't have long before we know one way or another if she will be a mum at christmas.

Would being pregnant work as a good reason for Clara to finally leave the show? I don't mean that in a negative way, I just mean it as Clara seems to have all these opportunities to finally turn round to the Doctor and go 'Actually I'm done now' but always seems to try and balance both her adventures with the doctor alongside 'real life'. So could it be motherhood that's finally seen as the feat that's too big to balance alongside her adventures?

I think you've hit the nail on the head. Bearing in mind that with Danny dead she'd be a single parent I think it would just be too big a thing for her. Also it would be her only link to her dead boyfriend and she knos how dangerous it is travelling in the Tardis.

I think being pregnant is the only believable reason for her to stop travelling. She couldn't give the Doctor up before, even for Danny so why would she be able to now? She's lost Danny and if not pregnant surely has no reason/life at home to want to stop travelling and leave the Doctor?

And this way is better than killing her off ect as she can always return for cameos and one off's in the future at least they wouldn't have to try and explain it like Rose or make it impossible like Donna-Amy-Rory

My money would be on "Santa magic" bringing Danny back to life as Clara's Christmas present. Then they can go off and live "happily ever after".

Lets hope the Doctor gets Osgood as a present.

Maybe it was 3 months to live? What she was going to tell the Doctor wasn't happy news. I didn't get the I'm pregnant vibe more like the clocks ticking