Paula's Soapbox

"If my baby's dead Carly is going to pay...in ways that she can't begin to imagine." Those were Claudia's words as she tearfully confided in Johnny her concerns that her fight with Carly, which resulted in the two of them falling down a flight of stairs, ultimately cost her baby's life. In the end these words could prove to be quite ominous as I suspect Carly's baby will be born healthy, while Claudia's baby will not. The likelihood of both of these women having healthy babies seems improbable, primarily because this scenario does little to promote an interesting storyline, at least for now. With all of Claudia's stress I expect that at some point she will have a miscarriage, then decide to fake being pregnant until the birth of Carly's baby. At that point I think she will either steal Carly's baby or hire someone to steal it and claim it as her own. Either way I think we are looking at a long process of Carly thinking her baby died because...

I will admit that I am not a loyal viewer of One Life to Live . I know very little about the characters and even less about their background. And I rarely have a chance to watch it in its entirety, but I have been following a few of the story lines in bits and pieces along the way. This baby switch story captivated my attention months ago, primarily because it correlated with Marty's return, another storyline I somehow became interested in. Last week Jessica finally learned that the baby she (and her alter egos) had been taking care of for months was not actually hers, but Starr's. It was difficult to hold back the tears as Jessica discovered that the baby she had given birth to had died, prompting Bess, one of her personalities to switch her baby with the baby Starr had just given birth to. This was a bittersweet revelation in more ways than one. First of all Starr and Cole were elated to find out that the baby they thought had died months ago was in fact alive, but then cam...