1 hour ago, P.J. said:

ATWT

All of Martha Byrne's pregnancies were written in, resulting in Faith, Natalie and Ethan Snyder.

I even watched ATWT throughout this decade and only remember Faith existing. Was Holden the father of all three??

16 minutes ago, Michael said:

I even watched ATWT throughout this decade and only remember Faith existing. Was Holden the father of all three??

Yes. Natalie was born Christmas Eve, 2003. Martha had gotten pregnant during the Spa Storyline, and Rose spent the summer off on some island adventure-ish story which culminated in Simon, Katie, Rose and Paul in a hurricane, I think. Lily was pregnant around the time that Luke came out, and ended up tumbling down some stairs in a fight with Luke. (I think.)

Storywise, ATWT never got around to doing much with either Natalie or Ethan. Ethan fell down a hole after Holden and Carly's affair, which resulted in Lily and Holden's reconciliation.

Edited September 26Sep 26 by P.J.

10 hours ago, P.J. said:

Yes. Natalie was born Christmas Eve, 2003. Martha had gotten pregnant during the Spa Storyline, and Rose spent the summer off on some island adventure-ish story which culminated in Simon, Katie, Rose and Paul in a hurricane, I think. Lily was pregnant around the time that Luke came out, and ended up tumbling down some stairs in a fight with Luke. (I think.)

Storywise, ATWT never got around to doing much with either Natalie or Ethan. Ethan fell down a hole after Holden and Carly's affair, which resulted in Lily and Holden's reconciliation.

Thank you! I obviously remember Martha's maternity leave but had blocked out additional kids for Lily.

Two General Hospital actresses in the '90s:

Kristina Wagner, sons born 1990 and 1994, resulted in Felicia's daughters Maxie and Georgie.

Lynn Herring, sons born 1991 and 1993, resulted in Lucy's miscarried son with Scotty, then Serena.

Edited September 27Sep 27 by Franko

I think almost every woman on As The World Turns in the 1980s and 90s had their real life pregnancy written into the show Colleen Zenk, Hillary Bailey Smith, Lisa Brown and others who have been mentioned upthread. I am not sure about Susan Marie Snyder, although she was married to and had a child with her co-star Peter Boynton.

Lisa Brown's wasn't. She was pregnant IRL while Iva dated Kirk. Iva later got pregnant by John, resulting in Matthew John.

Amelia Heinle - First on Loving/The City as Steffi, when she went on to have Baby Casey offscreen on The City, she was pregnant IRL by her then-husband Michael Weatherly, and then on Y&R, when she was pregnant with her second son by Thad Luckinbill, Victoria had given birth in a coma to Reed in 2007.

Laura Wright—They wrote in her pregnancy like weeks before she went on maternity leave when she had her daughter Lauren, and Cassie would go on to have baby Roger Joshua, AKA RJ in 1998 on Guiding Light.

Kelly Ripa—Hayley's miracle pregnancy was written on All My Children when Kelly was pregnant with her daughter Lola in 2001, while Hayley would go on to have Lorenzo "Enzo."

General Hospital:

Gail Ramsey As Susan Moore. She was the Affair of Alan Quartermaine and got pregnant. She was written off for a couple of weeks but returned with a baby boy with the lovely Name that is still torturing us 40+ Years later: Jason! lol

 

As The World Turns

Patricia Bruder had pregnancies written in but I'm confused as to actual dates 

Wikipedia says she has 2 children born 1965 and 1968.

Annie and Dee were born 1967 and 1969.

So I would assume Dawn( Dee) was the 1968 pregnancy but was Annie onscreen only?

Can anyone clarify?

Were any of Kristan Alfonso's pregnancies written in, I know the one with Shawn Douglas was not, but I cannot remember if the one with JT or Ciara was written in because of her real life pregnancy.

On 11/17/2025 at 12:21 PM, AmandainNC28655 said:

Were any of Kristan Alfonso's pregnancies written in, I know the one with Shawn Douglas was not, but I cannot remember if the one with JT or Ciara was written in because of her real life pregnancy.

Alfonso's second child was born in 2002, Zach/JT was born in June 2000.

On 9/22/2025 at 4:48 PM, titan1978 said:

Wasn’t there a couple of examples of actors being pregnant and having to play out things like miscarriages and babies that didn’t survive very long after birth? I seem to remember a performer talking about this but I cannot remember who it was.

 

on ryan’s hope, when kate mulgrew (mary) became pregnant in real life it was written into the show. she gave the baby up for adoption, but mary had the baby (ryan) so, when she returned to the show she had to play a happy new mother. can’t even imagine. 

On 9/26/2025 at 9:47 PM, DramatistDreamer said:

I think almost every woman on As The World Turns in the 1980s and 90s had their real life pregnancy written into the show Colleen Zenk, Hillary Bailey Smith, Lisa Brown and others who have been mentioned upthread. I am not sure about Susan Marie Snyder, although she was married to and had a child with her co-star Peter Boynton.

Susan Marie's was written in, which is how we got Aaron I believe.

I remember that Tracy Bregman was pregnant in real life, it was written in.. and I believe she had a miscarriage in real life and the show had planned to have Lauren miscarry and she wouldn't play it so another actress came in to play that aspect of the story.

When she got pregnant again, that was when the show wrote it in and she had Scotty.. which led to the baby switch.