Bold and the Beautiful: Carter & Steffy Stage a Stand-In to Mask a Stunning Baby Secret

The Bold and the Beautiful excites with Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) in an absolute panic because she just found out she is pregnant. And of course, she knows there’s a chance the baby is Carter Walton‘s (Lawrence Saint-Victor). So, Steffy is freaking out.

And from here, she should run to Carter so they can figure out what to do. Today we’re going to talk about Steffy’s confirmed pregnancy results and how she and Carter might concoct a shocking surrogacy scheme to save both of their marriages.

Bold and the Beautiful: Steffy’s Got a Bun in the Oven

So, we suspected from the moment Steffy and Carter had their drunken one night stand that Steffy was going to turn up pregnant. Then Steffy put two and two together and realized she had symptoms and could have a bun in the baby oven. And then she smuggled a pregnancy test into their house. Steffy took the test when Finn Finnegan (Tanner Novlan) was out of sight. And as expected, Steffy is pregnant and she is freaking out because there is a chance it’s Carter’s baby.

Steffy at this point is terrified of losing her marriage, losing her family, and losing her best friend. And Daphne Rose (Murielle Hilaire) just happened to mention at dinner she was going to need an egg and a surrogate. So, you can do the math on what is coming. Steffy can offer to donate an egg and to be their surrogate, but it would all be a fake out. But also, it would be a win-win because it would cover up Steffy and Carter’s drunken romp and give Daphne and Carter the family they want so desperately. And it would make Steffy look like she’s doing something amazing instead of looking like the cheater that she is.

Steffy Needs Her Third Paternity Test on B&B

So, let’s talk about how this all could work out. Now, first things first, Steffy likely needs a paternity test to find out if she is carrying Carter’s baby or Finn’s baby. Paternity tests these days can be done as early as seven weeks. So The Bold and the Beautiful may fudge the timeline for an earlier test. Or maybe Steffy uses a diaphragm and that’s her birth control with Finn and she knows she didn’t use it with Carter. In that case, Steffy would know immediately it was Carter’s kid. It seems like it’s just been a couple of days since Carter and Steffy slept together, but time is very fluid on Bold.

One week of episodes can be one day in B&B time and you can tell because they don’t change outfits. Then all of a sudden they’ll say, “Oh, that was three weeks ago when it was just last week on the show.” So unless Steffy knows for certain because of her birth control, they will have to do a DNA test. But the first thing I expect is Steffy runs to Carter in a full-blown panic and says, “Oh my goodness, I’m pregnant.”

Bold and Beautiful: Finn Hits His Breaking Point

The second thing to consider is that the stakes have changed for Steffy. She wanted to come clean to Finn, knowing he’d probably forgive her for a drunken mistake. But turning up pregnant with Carter’s baby is something else. Especially after what happened with Hayes’ pregnancy. Because remember, this would be the second time since Steffy’s been with Finn that she cheated, got pregnant, and then needed a paternity test to find out who’s it was.

When she was pregnant with Hayes, there was a chance Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton) was the father because Steffy had a one-night stand with him and Finn forgave her. So obviously his forgiveness can’t be boundless, especially after Steffy just tore him apart because Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown) sat next to him on a plane, not something he chose. So both Steffy and Carter’s marriages are on the line. They would both be dumped.

Light Bulb Goes Off for Carter on Bold

So when Steffy tells Carter she’s pregnant, that may be when he cooks up an idea. So Carter may be the one to suggest to Steffy that she sit down with him and Daphne, offer to be the egg donor and the surrogate both. That way the cheating would stay hidden and Carter and Daphne would raise the baby, but Steffy would still be in the child’s life to watch them grow up and she may have already been considering donating an egg, so it would be the same biology.

Steffy might be uneasy at first because it would be her baby genetics. You know, she might want to keep it and getting in deeper into this web of lies is bad. But if giving the baby to Carter and Daphne means her family stays together, Steffy may agree but reluctantly. And next, I think she may spill everything to her mom, Taylor Hayes (Krista Allen), because Steffy’s going to need her mom’s help to pull this off. She’s a doctor and Steffy can’t use Li Finnegan (Naomi Matsuda) to help her because that’s Steffy’s mother-in-law and she needs to keep this secret from Finn.

Bold and the Beautiful: Taylor Commits to Helping Steffy

So, Taylor is the perfect option. And if Steffy brings this to her mom, I don’t think Taylor would like it, but I think she would help Steffy to save her marriage and to keep the family together. And Steffy is definitely going to need a doctor’s help to pull this off because IVF takes time. So, they could lie and say Steffy is at the right point to conceive and she has a frozen egg. That wasn’t brought up for nothing.

So, they may rush this IVF in the next week or so because they need to get this fake surrogacy going to hide the fact that Steffy is already pregnant. And having Taylor on board would be perfect because she could fake records at the hospital or tamper with them because she’s a doctor.

Taylor might even have connections at a fertility clinic and could do paperwork to fake the whole thing, the whole implantation. So Steffy’s mom, you know, might have done therapy for some couples at a fertility clinic and have access that way.

Steffy Keeps Finn in the Dark on B&B

So the next thing is I think Steffy has to keep Finn out of this pregnancy as much as possible and Steffy could tell him it’s not our baby so that would feel weird. Basically she has to make sure Finn doesn’t see her labs and she can’t have him at her appointment or let him see the scans because he might know immediately that the timing is off because IVF wouldn’t move so fast. Steffy could even limit the info the doctor can share because it’s her pregnancy even though it’s an alleged surrogacy. Steffy is still the patient.

So, she can ban the doctor from telling Finn and Daphne specifics on timing of conception or anything that would give away the scheme. And again, this is where Taylor could come in handy because she knows plenty of doctors and she may know one who’s willing to be sketchy. She may find somebody to help Steffy and Carter fake this for a big payday. They could bring back Grace Buckingham (Cassandra Creech). You know, she would do it for the money. Taylor could also go in and alter test reports and change measurements, even alter the due date.

Ultimately, this is going to blow up in Steffy and Carter’s faces. At some point, everybody will find out Steffy and Carter slept together, and it would be even worse that they cooked up this surrogacy scheme on top of it. I think Finn would be the one to put the pieces together and figure out that the IVF math doesn’t line up. I do suspect it’ll remain secret for a while.

Bold and Beautiful: Finn Figures it Out?!

You know, give Daphne enough time to get excited about welcoming a baby and then Steffy and Carter have months to be eaten up by guilt and to be whispering and acting sketchy. Plus, Finn will wonder why Steffy’s being secretive. And I think something might worry Finn. You know, he may think that something’s off with Steffy’s pregnancy and poke around in the records out of concern, even though it would be unethical since he’s not Steffy’s doctor and doesn’t have permission.

So, Finn may take a look and see that things don’t add up. He may notice that Taylor has been in Steffy’s records making edits because there is a digital trail. And Finn may then confront Taylor, who may freak out, and Finn gets even more suspicious. And Finn may confront Steffy and the stress causes early labor. So, we’ll see. But I fully suspect a surrogacy scheme is coming and I think it could be super, super soapy.