Chicago Fireplace’s Stella Kidd and Kelly Severide’s street to parenthood was upended as soon as once more through the season 14 premiere — so what’s subsequent for the couple?
Warning: Spoilers under from Chicago Fireplace season 14, episode 1.
Throughout the Wednesday, October 1, of Chicago Fireplace, followers discovered that Kidd’s season 13 finale being pregnant reveal was not meant to be. After Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) and Severide (Taylor Kinney) met with their physician, Kidd was informed that she suffered a miscarriage only one week after she took the being pregnant check.
“The excellent news is that there’s nothing within the examination or the labs to counsel any points that might cease you from having a wholesome being pregnant sooner or later,” the physician informed them, however Kidd was visibly in shock over the information.
Severide responded, “That’s nice to listen to,” however Kidd was in a fog. After the appointment, Kidd began to cry and apologized to her husband, considering out loud, “I ought to’ve waited a pair days to let you know or taken one other check.”
“You don’t must apologize for something. We’re on this collectively. Each step of the best way,” Severide replied, attempting to reassure Kidd that it’s OK that the being pregnant didn’t work out. (Final season, the couple additionally skilled heartbreak when their adoption of a child fell by way of on the final minute.)
On the finish of the season 14 premiere, Kidd and Severide obtained a shock go to from Terry, who was beforehand accountable for their failed child adoption.
As an alternative of proposing a brand new child for the couple to look after, he requested them in the event that they’d be “keen” to satisfy a youngster who’s about to be faraway from his group residence and change into his foster mother and father.
The episode ended with the firefighters surprised by the idea, which showrunner Andrea Newman revealed is precisely what they needed for Kidd and Severide this season.
Newman solely informed Us Weekly and Give Me My Distant on Thursday, September 25, that Kidd’s “hesitations” about getting pregnant — partly as a result of she was raised by her aunt after her mother and father’ deaths as a teen — was “haunting” her when she found she was anticipating so quickly after the failed adoption.

“All of us noticed how Severide reacts, and he’s so completely happy and so joyous. So in that second, any hesitation [Kidd] had, and seeing him react that manner went out the window, however that’s nonetheless beneath,” Newman shared. “We thought it will be attention-grabbing to probe for Kidd [that] when she finds out the being pregnant has not stayed round, she’s carrying guilt for that. She’s carrying guilt as a result of she knew that she wasn’t 100% in the best way that Severide was 100%.”
The showrunner defined that transferring ahead Kidd and Severide might be “shifting gears” and studying within the second that “there’s no method to plan each step” of turning into mother and father.

“They’d one story of their head of what household was going to appear like, and now a brand new story goes to be written for them,” Newman teased, noting that Kidd serving to Natalie, a teen she saved as a toddler from a fireplace, throughout season 13, and dropping her personal mother and father as a youngster will proceed to form that story.
She added, “On the finish of the day, it’s a number of impediment programs and wrenches thrown in a pair that you already know could be very a lot in love — however there’s at all times going to be challenges that include being a mum or dad, and that’s very a lot so for them and the way they handle this.”
Chicago Fireplace airs on NBC Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET.