Just watching Vanessa in tears on Emmerdale as she doesn't know who her baby daddy is. And then we have Linda Carter still worried about Dean being her baby daddy.

There are pre-natal DNA tests now - you can do it in the first 3 months, there are tests you can non invasively just as a blood test if you dont want to do an amnio (which as they are both over 35 yrs old you would think they would do). It's only a few hundred pounds..something a vet can easily afford. If you dont want to tell the other person then you get DNA via a toothbrush or their hairbrush etc. Why do we have to see these stupid storylines.

BIB - Or a sock

Maybe they should have a who's the mother? That would be a bit different

A bit impossible, too.

Coming to Emmerdale this Christmas: Vanessa's Baby! VetBaby pops out to be confronted by two dopey dipsticks. VetBaby is disgusted. VetBaby strangles both drips with it's umbilical cord. VetBaby, the youngest crim in Emmerdale history, is rewarded the freedom of t'dales and a personalised knuckle duster.

Emmerdale love a criminal so I think this is could happen

Does anyone even like these storylines, they've been very over done.

I agree. They became stale about 5 years ago.

ED: Older woman pregnant, whose baby is it? and who does the woman confide in?, her former lesbian partner.
CS: Older woman pregnant; whose baby is it? As ED and CS are now jointly produced by Blackburn and Oates, we may have the same man being father of both babies. And the psycho's, ED Emma or CS Jenny, may steal them. I think I am losing the plot.

Just saw a trailer for a program called Blue and the man said he had met up with his "son" and he left a drinks cup so he used that to get a DNA test done
So its socks and cups .....at this rate Jeremy Kyle will be out of business

Id have though that Vanessa being an clever woman would have been on the pill so how did she get pregnant??? YESSSS I know how she got pregnant I meant how could she let it happen

Doesnt David or The Woolpack sell condoms

As eye rolling as these daddy plots are, a soap isn't a soap without one of these storylines. They are as overused as secret love affairs and murder mystery whodunnits.

No contraception is 100% effective - accidents do happen.

That may turn out to be the plot

Robert's bulk buying has caused a shortage

Neighbours are also running a who's the daddy plot as well. So that's currently neighbours emmerdale eastenders and corrie all at once

Well said. Enough is enough.

I do find it horrible how none of these characters never know the father. Really sleazy and disgraceful.

I know mines just turned 37 yrs old lol....but then again Im not a fully trained vet

It's got nothing to do with someone's job. One of my friends is a doctor - she got pregnant whilst on the pill several years ago

It's a soap staple, it'll never go away

I think it one could work if Charlie slater was around.
Or mo.

One of the slater girls would have to return and do a shabnam and leave it on the doorstep and the mystery is which one did it and is returning. Only way a whose the mummy story would work. It's far fetched and highly unlikely but hey, it's soap land

Maybe not for Eastenders. They have Lola who has never mentioned anything about her mother, not even a name as far as I can remember. So if EE introduced a few new female characters they could have subtle hints scattered throughout episodes that any one of them could be the mother. Or they could do it with pre-existing characters. Just for example Melanine Owen, Natalie Evans, Mandy Salter and "Karin Smart" could all return and be possibilities for Lola's mum.

Not that I'm saying that should happen, just an example. I'm not sure Natalie would fit with the timeline anyway since she was in the show in the mid 90's

You know what women are like. They can't help sleeping with different men round about the same time.

Accidents happen once in a blue moon. She's been sleeping with Kirin for months. She slept with Adumb once. The odds are astronomical against the 'perfect storm' of a) there being an accident and b) the baby being Adumb's.

I always find it funny when soaps independently decide on a storyline more than 6 months before it hits the screen ... yet two soaps turn out to have the same storyline at the same time!

As is the case with Vanessa in Emmerdale and Kim Tate as was in Corrie.

Who's the father storylines, though ... surely the half a million times it's already been done is enough!


And every pregnancy in a soap is an accident.

They should come out with a really rare storyline - a planned baby!