Tonight on TLC their reality show looking at teenage pregnancy and parenthood UNEXPECTED premieres with an all-new Sunday, January 3, 2021 episode and we have your Unexpected recap below. On tonight’s Unexpected season 4 episode 3 called, “Invitation To The Gender Reveal,” as per the TLC synopsis, “Jessica worries Reanna may be going into early labor. Tyra is furious that Julie’s internet boyfriend has moved in. Myrka invites her mom to her gender reveal party. Jenna refuses to move her pet rabbit’s cage to make room for a new crib.”
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Myrka is pregnant. She is about to have baby with her boyfriend Ethan and she was one of the luckier ones because Ethan was supportive of her and their child. He truly wants to be with her. He wants to start a family with her and so it was just Myrka’s mother that was proving to be a problem. Her mother didn’t want her to have a baby. She told Myrka when she was younger to not get pregnant because her mother always said she would throw Myrka out of the house and that’s exactly what she did. She kicked Myrka out. She told Myrka to get an abortion. She said this child was coming to ruin Myrka’s life and her mother hasn’t changed her stance in anything. She sure as hell didn’t want to take part in anything that celebrates this baby.
Which was unfortunate for Myrka. Myrka already loves her child and she wants to keep as well as raise her child. She doesn’t live with her mother anymore. She’s living with Ethan’s parents and it was his parents she asked to be there at sonogram. She didn’t even bother asking her mother. She knew her mother would say “no” and the older woman more or less confirmed that when they talked. She said she has to work. She works long hours for six days a week and she didn’t want to give up a workday for this child that she doesn’t want to become part of her life. She also turned down an invite to the gender reveal. She said she was busy. She also said she didn’t see a point in a gender reveal because again that was a little too cheerful for her.
Jenna’s parents were the opposite. Her dad and stepmom were super supportive of her pregnancy. They even bought the crib. They were going to move the crib into Jenna’s room and Jenna didn’t like that because she didn’t want to rearrange her whole room for the baby. She especially didn’t want to move her pet rabbit that her boyfriend Aden got for her. Jenna was envisioning taking pictures with her baby and the rabbit for Easter and so she was focused on the wrong things. She kept focusing on the superficial stuff. She didn’t even want the baby to sleep in her room because she wanted to turn a guest room into a nursery and her parents weren’t having that. They thought the baby should sleep with its mother.
There were also benefits to this. The baby needed to be close at hand for when Jenna gets up in the middle of the night to feed it or change it and Jenna wasn’t thinking of that stuff. She was still thinking of herself. She didn’t even thank her parents for the crib and those things are pretty expensive. She also didn’t want to move her bunny out of her room to make space for her baby and of those two – the baby was more important. The bunny was literally a pet. It could be donated or it could be replaced. It still wasn’t as important as a baby. Jenna didn’t understand how much her life was going to change once the baby came and she was truly focusing on the wrong things. She even told her boyfriend he was being too polite to her dad and he sorta has to be polite because they were all living together.
Aden moved in after he found out Jenna was pregnant. He was only supposed to stay for weekends and then one day he just didn’t go back home. His mom misses him. She tells him that all the time and Jenna’s father ended up going along with it because Jenna was pregnant. Her pregnancy changed everything. Her father allowed her boyfriend to live there because he wants to make sure his grandchild has two parents that can co-parent. He didn’t have that with Jenna’s mom and that made things harder on Jenna. She was often stuck in the middle. She knew she couldn’t turn to her mom if she had problems with her dad and she couldn’t turn to her dad if she had problems with her mom. And because she still wants to keep her room to herself, she chose to turn to her stepmom for help.
Reanna’s pregnancy was probably one of the toughest. She suffered with morning sickness all throughout her pregnancy and she was suffering cramps at around thirty weeks. Everyone was hoping it was Braxton Hicks. Reanna comes from a family of teen mothers. Her grandmother had her first child at sixteen. Her three daughters all went on to become teen mothers and now its Reanna’s turn. Reanna is fifteen. She was still a baby herself and she was close to becoming a parent. Her cramping got really bad. Her family felt if it continued that they would have to take her to the hospital. And so Reanna’s pregnancy was really quite bad compared to everyone else this season.
Tyra wasn’t pregnant. She already had her baby. She had Layla who she loves and their current living situation it turning out to be a problem. Tyra lives with her boyfriend Alex and his family. She’s been living with them for a while and it was rough at first, but its been doing much better recently and then a new boyfriend entered the picture. Alex’s mom got a new boyfriend. She met this man online and she wants to move him into the house. The boyfriend would be living with them as well as their daughter. Tyra wasn’t sure she was comfortable with that. It would be one thing if she was at the house all day as well and she’s not. She goes to school. Her school is two and half hours away and so five hours in traveling plus classes and cheerleading means Layla was being raised by her father’s father.
Alex didn’t like the idea of the boyfriend moving in either. He had a problem with it because he didn’t think his mom knew this man for long and he didn’t want this man around his daughter, but he wasn’t going to say anything about it because he doesn’t like to stir the pot and so Tyra turned to her own family. She asked them to step in. Her mom didn’t mind it. Her mom also wishes Tyra wouldn’t just rely on her during an emergency and Tyra’s sister didn’t like her going to school. She thought Tyra was selfish for leaving her baby. The sister was also a teen mom and she was stay-at-home parent. Then again the sister thought Alex couldn’t be counted on anything and so its good that Tyra still has a future.
Reanna was later taken to the hospital and it did seem like she was in early labor, but she refused to call the baby’s father because she still doesn’t want to talk to him.
And sometimes Jenna is particularly rude to her father for no other reason than she feels like he’s trying to make decisions for her.
THE END!
