16 and Pregnant Recap: RIPtide

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By CathodeTube | Wednesday, May 30, 2012 | 10:53 am | 10 Comments
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Kristina decides to try and get her GED at the local community college rather than going back to high school and all that would entail. Apparently Tiffany, one of the college tour guides, is from the “babies sleep a lot” school of thought, or she’s got really poor short term memory, because she asks Kristina what extracurricular activities she wants to be involved in at the college. Dumbass. Kim, thinking this is some sort of entrance test, is quick to interject that Kristina used to do a lot of stuff extracurricularly. Kristina shows them a sonogram, and Tiffany, not dumbassed enough yet, asks about her boyfriend. The death story gets told again, which is no fun for anyone. We have to assume she enrolled, but we truly don’t know from the footage whether she just left in disgust.

Kim drops her off after the college trip and goes “I’ll call you.” “I know you will,” says Kristina. Heh.

We never do learn how Kristina lost her eyebrows.

A few days later, she blows off Kim to send out her baby shower invites. She’s up to 137 people. I think the support network thing’s taken care of, as is the supply of diapers and onesies. She says only about 37 will probably come, so Daniel doesn’t have to worry about feeding 100 people. The event has evolved a bit, though, from a small girls’ affair to more of a family thing. Kim calls later to cry about how she doesn’t feel included in the shower and the planning, and bitch, are you for real? It is SO NOT ABOUT YOU. Somebody commit this woman, or at the very least take her phone away.

I wonder if I can talk and Google “leech removal” at the same time.

Kristina’s face says it all during this call. She tells her mother that she has been included, and gives examples. Mom comes back with, she’s afraid something will go wrong, like in Galveston, and there will be nothing she can do about it. I don’t think anyone’s going to be drowning at the baby shower. Despite the name, it doesn’t actually involve water.

Is it any wonder she doesn’t want to talk about the drowning when her mother turns it into a pity party for herself? Seriously lady. Kristina is totally the grownup in this conversation, reminding her mother that it’s nobody’s fault, and there was nothing nobody could’ve done. And nobody’s got no more patience for this lady’s self-focused crap.

And because Kristina is not dealing with enough, she goes into early labor at about 7 months. They admit her to the hospital, where the doctor uses words like “conducive” when he could just say “good for” and offers precious little reassurance. Basically, little Lukas doesn’t have much amniotic fluid around him, or much room for growth. Kristina’s family/posse drives an hour to be with her at the hospital. The hospital pumps her full of anti-labor stuff and eventually her contractions stop. Everyone goes away to get some sleep, and Kristina makes her mother, who is miraculously not wailing and tearing her hair, get Aunt Dotty to stay with her instead. Kristina and Dotty call Todd’s mother, who sounds like she’s talking even slower than regular Southern, probably thanks to a heavy and necessary dose of something from the Valium family. She offers Kristina the surprisingly good advice to think of what Todd would say to her whenever she feels anxious. Score one for the Valium family.

Oh, and they have keep Kristina in the hospital for the next two months, or until little Lukas is born, the later the better, as he is under three pounds at that point. And I can’t help thinking if she’d had more diligent prenatal care, could they have caught this sooner? As with everything, Kristina takes it stoically and like a grownup. 

There’s no way this girl’s not getting that last Teen Mom spot, methinks.

Kim and Dotty show up the next (I think) day, and Kim exercises her uncanny ability to make things worse. Kristina wants to be alone. Or she wants Todd. But she would definitely prefer that her companion not be Kim. Kim doesn’t grasp this, thinking Kristina is worried about Kim putting herself out. Say it with me, Gasmii: NOT ABOUT YOU, LADY (NAYL).

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CathodeTube has wanted to be a recapper ever since she read the MightyBigTV interview with Sars and James Van Der Beek. She lives in Chicago with her husband and baby son, and adores hip-hop, cop shows, competitive reality TV, and all foods involving melted cheese. She used to copyedit made-up blogs for the "reputation management" of people who got themselves on The Dirty or Mugshots.com. Turns out google-bombing doesn't work anymore, so now she writes product copy, is much happier, and still wears stretchy pants at all times.

10 Comments

  1. 1
    kthxbai kthxbai
    Posted May 30, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    This was no contest the saddest episode of this show ever. It was also the only 1 that ever made me cry. And I had to fast forward through even more than I usually do.

    I hope you’re right the producers sent her to counseling. And paid for it.

    I think they should’ve sent all of them. Including her mom too. Because for all she tries to make it about her it seems like she’s also got some bad problems about it. To be fair she did near about lose her baby and her grandbaby that day. Not to mention whatever closeness she had to the boy. With the families already related to each other.

    Anyway they should’ve just given Kristina the $ for this plus a Teen Mom and took the cameras off to film somebody else. That we can make fun of.

    These people are just grieving. They so did not need to be on TV.

  2. 2
    wow
    Posted May 30, 2012 at 5:25 pm

    So gut wrenching!! You know its sad when the fact that there is a pregnant teenager is the least depressing part of the episode!

  3. 3
    S-Natch S-Natch
    Posted May 30, 2012 at 5:52 pm

    Haven’t read the recap yet, but hats off, Cath, for even attempting it. This was the saddest episode of any reality show I have ever seen. That poor girl – not only to lose her fiance but then for the baby to be endangered as well. Not to mention having to deal with the cloyingly self-centered woman whose vagina she popped out of. :( Best wishes to that poor girl and her family.

  4. 4
    Jenkoz
    Posted May 30, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    Her mom, my god. But I get it. I lost my son at birth and I got a lot of “I feel so bad for you I wish I could take it all awaaaaay” that I resented because it made me feel like I had to comfort them. You start to not trust people with your feelings. My stepdaughter’s mother had no problem telling me how sad she was in her own right which, thank goodness for her because that made me feel so much less alone. But I was 32 and had some perspective to know they meant well. At 17 or whatever I don’t think I’d have been as patient as she was.

  5. 5
    Chicken Lips
    Posted May 30, 2012 at 9:20 pm

    I felt bad for the baby – his noggin is huge and his little neck can’t hold it up even with adult intervention – he looked that he was constantly looking about 6 inches above where he should have been because his head tilted back so much. Could that be caused by the fact that he was born early and his head/skull/brain was fully formed early but not the rest of him? It just looked uncomfortable for the little guy. I hope his neck grows into that head.

    I’m probably in the minority, but I think that Kristina was a touch bratty – her mother was grieving, too (she was there and wasn’t able to help either of them) and her method was to talk about it, but Kristina completely discounted that and got pissed off. Todd’s mother’s method was to talk about it and Kristina just said to Daniel something about how his mom was just trying to cope. Granted, we don’t know much about the relationship before he died (except the explanation that they don’t get along so she lives with Dotty), but that only made her look more bratty when she wasn’t understanding what her mother was doing yet it was OK for everyone else to talk about it in front of her. Maybe it was different because her mother was there and no one else was, but I just couldn’t shake that feeling.

    I was also wondering if her mom was acting like that because she feels guilty about taking them to the beach, watching them in the water and not being able to get to them so she is trying to do everything she can to try to help and be there for her but has gone completely overboard and to the complete other end of the scale. Was she like this before the accident? Kristina just said they didn’t get along – but in teenage speak that could mean anything (Mom wouldn’t let her have sex with Todd in the living room, Mom made her be home by midnight on a school night, Mom asked her to please rinse the dishes before leaving them in the sink if she wasn’t going to put them in a dishwasher). I think knowing that would help gauge what this reaction was all about.

    I hope the counselor can help her – that will be tough for the baby to be raised like someone that sits around alone all the time.

  6. 6
    Classy Drunk classy drunk
    Posted May 31, 2012 at 6:12 am

    I’m with you Chicken Lips. I think Kristin’s mother is over compensating because she almost lost her baby. It seems they had a strained relationship before and now her mother is trying to do the most and make the relationship right. Kristin comes off a bit bratty because she’s not ready for that type of relationship with her mother.

    Both families need counseling.

    Shout out to you Cath I would have been just fine if you’d passed on recapping this episode. I normally get a little misty every time the baby is born on one of these but this episode had so many tear jerking moment I found myself fast forwarding alot.

  7. 7
    hot cawfee
    Posted June 2, 2012 at 8:36 am

    Yes Mama Kim— drownings more like to occur at a baptism—ya know all that water.
    Kim– I hate you.
    back to reading

  8. 8
    hot cawfee
    Posted June 2, 2012 at 8:44 am

    @Jenk– my condolences hon– that is tragic to lose your little one.

  9. 9
    hot cawfee
    Posted June 2, 2012 at 8:48 am

    I am holstering my snark too. This was just sad. And not our usual “16 and Pregnant” with maternity prom dress shopping and boy-friends that get stupid and flake out (and leave). I cried alot too during this episode and even got teary during the baby shower at the hospital. How pretty was Kristina’s dress??? Is she going to be a Teen Mom this season? I ‘d love to see her and see how she is faring.

  10. 10
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted June 2, 2012 at 10:02 am

    I honestly don’t think that this should have been an episode.

    And instead of drinking every time we saw the giant Todd picture, the game should be to drink every time Kristina’s mom said “me” or “I”.

    @Chicken Lips, I don’t think Kristina was bratty. If anything, the girl was catatonic. When she wasn’t crying, she was just staring into space and never spoke above a mumble. The only time she looked alive was when she was crying in the hospital, at her baby shower, and when she finally got to bring her baby home. Who I agree has a gigantic head. A C-Section was a good idea, because pushing a head that size out would not have worked.
    And Todd’s mother was different from Kristina’s mother in that Todd’s mother at least appeared to be mindful of how her grief would affect Kristina and she didn’t just try to dump it all on her. Also, when they were meeting for lunch, Todd’s mom talked about her own pain a little bit, but she also discussed Kristina’s feelings and how grieving would affect her.
    Kristina’s mom was just mememememememe IIIIIIII mememememememe I. Not even thinking about how Kristina felt.
    Like God, lady, what kind of mother is that selfish?

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