New parents name their baby, then she starts seizing
The Hartigs bicker happily over baby names; a spit-up and a fever later, their newborn has a seizure.
S1E4 · Maternity
21 moments · 32 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
From the OB lounge, House spots a cluster of sick babies
House eavesdrops on the obstetricians, lays out two sick newborns as exhibits, shrugs off a shrink suggestion and goes hunting for more.
The baby hunt turns up a third case and the ward is shut
House sweeps every maternity room and finds nothing until the overflow floor; Cuddy closes the ward and turns away a woman in labor.
Epidemic differential: House explains Cuddy's sick baby
With four infants failing, House reads why Cuddy needs a swab team, then the team narrows a resistant hospital germ.
Cameron can't tell two mothers how sick their son is
Cameron answers with numbers instead of the truth, then is told what parents actually need to hear and why watching is worse than dying.
Cuddy's swab hunt and a tie declared a petri dish
Med students swab the hospital while empty gel dispensers turn up; and someone's tie gets declared a petri dish.
House diagnoses a marathoner's 'parasite'
A runner who can't lose weight learns what her parasite really is, confesses a paternity problem, and gets House's take on marriage.
House orders a trial: one drug off each baby
The antibiotics are killing the babies' kidneys; while the team argues which to drop, House decides to treat the two infants differently.
Cuddy and House clash over experimenting on babies
Cuddy demands a medical rationale and informed consent; House offers absurd reasons, then asks which matters more as two more babies fall ill.
Two families, two treatments, two ways of breaking the news
The Hartigs hear their daughter may not survive; Cameron reassures the other family, and a colleague challenges her over false hope.
Jill brings her husband to House's office for a mono test
The pregnant runner needs a cover story; House catches on a beat late and plays along, telling Charlie that feeling fine is a symptom.
Mrs. Hartig fears for her marriage as the other baby crashes
Mrs. Hartig confides her fear to Chase; alarms send her running in panic, and Chase fights for the Chen-Lupino baby without success.
House makes Cameron tell the parents, and scolds Chase for helping
The failed drug points to vancomycin; House assigns Cameron the death talk, and when she freezes he accuses Chase of bailing her out.
House's superbug rant: we bred them
Neither antibiotic works on the Hartig baby. Chase fears a rare resistant staph; House blames antibiotic overuse, then spots the heart clue.
From an autopsy slide to eight vials: hunting a virus
Heart tissue says virus. With little blood to spare, the team crosses out families of viruses and House adds a healthy baby as a control.
The healthy baby's blood points to the mothers
Three viruses show up in the sick babies and two in the healthy one; House realizes mothers' antibodies decide who survives.
The Hartigs finally get to hold Maxine
Foreman explains the heart-damaging virus and an experimental antiviral; a small request lets the parents hold their daughter at last.
House awkwardly asks Foreman how Cameron is doing
Foreman is thrown when House asks about someone's well-being, and the two circle each other over why he wants to know.
Jill gets the result she wanted and House turns down her baby
Jill is thrilled by the news about her husband and wants House for her prenatal care. He has his own idea of the perfect gift.
House asks Cameron if she lost someone
House reads Cameron's awkwardness around dying patients and presses on who she lost, until she calls him what he is.
House stays in the haystack, then invents a delivery to stay put
House won't drop the search for the virus carrier; later he refuses to leave a room by claiming a delivery for a patient due in five months.
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