In all honesty I actually wish Misty was pregnant with a little babe Rand-Knight but sadly their going with a "phantom pregnancy" caused by Danny's chi energy which I guess not only fuel the other parts of his body but it also fuels and comes out his baby batter (Sorry, tried to put it as delicate as I could) which made Misty have false positive on her pregnancy test. How did it do that? Well I guess since "chi" is technically the human life force then maybe enough of it would in someone who doesn't normally harness this energy to so signs of another lifeforce inside of them. So when Danny life energy flowed into Misty it caused the "phantom pregnancy and when the energy was used up Misty stopped showing signs of seemed to be a pregnancy.
That was my explanation here is a quote from a article/interview with Antony Johnston @ theothermurdockpapers.com
We also had the story with the whole Misty Knight pregnancy that wasn’t, and there was apparently a lot of opinion on fighting crime while pregnant.
The whole pregnant/not pregnant thing was just bad timing. We always knew that she wasn’t really pregnant. However, I don’t know if there was miscommunication between departments or whatever, but the revelation that she was never pregnant at all was one I was hoping would be published after Blood on the Streets was finished. Instead, it was published after issue #2 came out. There wasn’t much we could do about it, but Blood on the Streets was written with the intention that readers would always believe that she was pregnant.
As I said at the time – and this is what I meant about getting to know the tropes of superhero fiction – she has a cyborg arm, for heaven’s sake! Made by a man who flies around the world in a suit of armour that he built in his basement. These are the things that you have to accept if you’re going to read superhero books. If you accept that, and you accept there’s a world where people literally get punched through brick walls… let me emphasize that, punched through brick walls… Then I don’t really see why there’s such a problem accepting that a woman who is pregnant, but not even showing yet, is willing to get out and do a bit of kung-fu.
And it’s not like I didn’t address it in the story. In her internal dialogue throughout, Misty made a lot of references to the state of her health and whether she should be out doing this, and that maybe she should be thinking more about the safety of the baby. At the same time, she’s a superhero, she’s not going to step down from the challenge of putting things right. It’s a balancing act for the character.
Hope this helped.
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