More Breaking Dawn blather: From an interview with Meyer herself

Question: How was Bella's pregnancy possible? — Deep

Meyer: One of the longest things about this last year is that I've been reading all these quotes that people have been attributing to me that I never said. I had a rough draft of [this story] by the beginning of 2004, so before I ever did a tour or answered any questions or did an interview, I knew where the story was going. ... When people said, "Hey, can vampires have babies?" I always said no, because female vampires don't change at all, and it takes a lot of change for your body to accommodate a fetus, so it's not possible. But I never said anything about the part that I knew was coming. ... It is true ... there's a whole chromosomal-count difference, but venom works a lot of different ways, so for me, it always worked just fine.

Oh, well that explains it all

NOT

Oh, what horseshit.

"venom" is that what they're calling it these days?

On the other hand, Joss established fairly strongly that vamps can't have babies, but I really didn't blink when Darla got knocked up by Angel. So there's that.

but I really didn't blink when Darla got knocked up by Angel

But all the characters did, so we (the audience) knew that ME knew they were breaking a rule, and would have to answer for it eventually. There was no retcon involved because it was acknowledged and explained as a wholly new (and unique) situation in that universe.

and...the baby was not a vampire. Not even a half-vampire.

Well, the characters in Breaking Dawn are baffled that it's possible for her to be pregnant, but then they fuck it up and point out that there are myths where it has happened in the past.

The pregnancy befuddles me, but it isn't a deal breaker. The entire lack of sacrifice and the ultimate wish fulfillment of it all is what makes the book suck.

In LKH's books, male vampires who hang out in hot tubs and have sex with non-vampiric women can knock them up. In her universe it's a body temperature thing. The vampires have some metabolic functions, but viable sperm only gets produced at a certain temperature. Which is still horseshit, but I think it's somewhat more plausible horseshit.

Which means that in at least one case Laurel K. Hamilton's vampire theories beat Stephenie Meyers'. For whatever that's worth.

The entire lack of sacrifice and the ultimate wish fulfillment of it all is what makes the book suck.

Well, there's that. But not to mention the baby imprinting on an adult werewolf.

To bring up another issue that makes me cringe.

I hate the disingenuous nature of her answer. And of course, the de facto nature of putting the onus of pregnancy on the woman.

Not to mention, breaking all her own damned rules.

They don't call Bella "Mary Sue" for nothing.