Regina’s Child

[surayya]

For me personally, I feel rather than being barren, Regina choose not to have children while in FTL (place was magic & we know she learnt magic BEFORE marrying Leo + you have plants that cause abortions if you do get with child & don’t want to be), as she was so filled with hate. At that point she was totally focused on revenge on Snow- not having a family.

Later as her own father kept reminding her about letting go & having a family, she started to think about children to love (Hansel & Gretel), since she no longer had Daniel, but they refused her, so she squished it & went back to focusing on her revenge of Snow.

Until in SB she had no other choice but to eventually realize her desire for love & to love (Owen & father) & in her 1st act of kindness since becoming EQ (letting Owen go), she set out to ‘have a child of her own’.
As someone mentioned, I think all SB was frozen & Regina would have eventually hated having a frozen child, so she had to ‘out source’. This I think is something Regina would have done anyway.
As far as she knows/knew, it takes 2 to make a baby- ie. I don’t think they do anonymous sperm donors & fertility clinics in EF- so if she was to ‘have a child the old fashioned way’, said child would also be a part of his/her father & tied magically to him (evidenced by Emma being/ having magic despite being raised in our world), therefore Regina would have to share.
Adopting an ‘unwanted’ child = Regina never having to share or compete for said child, she can quite rightly say- I want/love you, they didn’t/don’t- that appeals to Regina as things stood & still do.

If Regina fell in love AFTER being Redeemed/Forgiven/Changing her spots, I have no doubts she’d jump at the chance of having children of her own ‘with’ her love, as she wouldn’t be worried about him taking said child’s Love away from her.

That’s just my take any way & agree it is possible she could be barren.

[jbwood5]

It’s very possible that in the EF the can only have children when they are married. And although I am sure her and the king slept together at least once, before she knew magic by the way, it is likely that she just happened to not get prego. This explains how she never got pregnant from sleeping with Graham.

[surayya]

She 1st contacted Rumple Before getting married, then she went to run away- again before being wed, but Rumple got his claws in & turned her to magic (when she went to give the book back to him, after pushing Cora into the mirror), so she stayed to get her revenge.
So I cant see how she wouldn’t have ensured she wouldn’t get pregnant, at least magically. Another thought is she wouldn’t want a child by Leo anyway, it’s wasn’t in Regina’s style back then to share anything & having to share “her” baby with him, Snow & an entire kingdom…Not something that would appeal to her (remember she wasn’t power hungry like Cora, she just wanted revenge on Snow).

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