They tried to hide Kerry Washington's pregnancy behind big hats and coats or always sitting down the first time and they couldn't do the same the second time so they shortened the season and pushed back production. Before Claire fell pregnant, Adalind was a visually active antagonist/hexenbiest. Would hiding her behind coats and hats work? Having her sitting down for a whole season wouldn't have worked either. Writing the pregnancy in probably seemed the lesser evils in terms of production and narrative. Sure it pissed off people, shippers and non shippers alike but G&K told the stories that they wanted end of story.
Edit: Obviously some were certainly happy they used Claire's pregnancy in the story. I just went with the flow. Now that she has the kids, I don't want them gone when before they existed, I would have been okay because I didn't like Adalind back then and wished her gone (that obviously changed with motherhood )
Edit: Obviously some were certainly happy they used Claire's pregnancy in the story. I just went with the flow. Now that she has the kids, I don't want them gone when before they existed, I would have been okay because I didn't like Adalind back then and wished her gone (that obviously changed with motherhood )