Some one squeals their car up to the ER and dumps a body out and then drives off.  The guy has a gun shot wound.  Dr. Benton is still working on his mother with a broken hip.  Peter tells the surgeon that he wants only the best to work on his mother.  They take her up to surgery and tell Peter to stay out.  Carter congratulates Mark on becoming an Attending.  Sean and Jodi O'Brien come into the ER.  She is expecting her first baby in 2 weeks, but she is hurting in her stomach and has to urinate frequently.  Mark tells the 30 year old woman that it is probably just a bladder infection.  Peter, Jackie and her kids wait to hear how their mother is doing.  A boy is brought in that had been working at his father's nursery.  The boy has insecticide poisoning.  Mark and Deb tell Jodi that she has cystitis and sends her home with antibiotics.  At 7.15pm, Sean O' Brien comes back into the ER asking for Mark.  He tells him that his wife is unconscious in the car and is having a seizure.  Mark takes a look at her and she is stable now.  Susan's shift is starting and she tells Mark that he can go home, but he stays anyways.  Peter tries to go into the OR to assist with his mom's surgery, but he gets kicked out and is told that he better not come back in.  Mark tells the O'Briens that they need to deliver the baby today.   They discuss names for the baby and they ask Mark for his opinion.  Mark thinks Jared will be a good name.   Mark talks with Dr. Coburn, the OB attending, on the phone and she tells him that he can induce labor.  The O'Briens are excited and the mother and the baby are doing fine.  They keep them downstairs in the ER, because OB is very bust upstairs.   Jodi's contractions have started and they are about ten minutes apart, and she is dilated five centimeters dilated.  It is time for her to get an epidural.  At 3.15am, her epidural is wearing off, and she is fully dilated.  The baby's heart rate goes down to 90 and it should be between 120 and 160.  It is time to deliver.  Mark sends Carter to up to OB to get OB resident Dr Drake and not to come back without him.

The baby will not come out and his shoulders get stuck on Jodi's pelvic bone.  Mark decides that he has to do a c-section.  Susan tells Mark that he should wait for OB, but Mark goes ahead because Jodi's blood pressure goes to 200/130.  Mark and Susan really don't know exactly what to do with a c-section.  She has two liters of blood in her uterus.  He gets the baby out, and his blood pressure is 120/80 and the baby is not breathing.  Jodi seizes again and then crashes.  Doug takes care of the baby and he starts breathing.  Dr. Coburn finally shows up and wants to know what was going on.  She asks Mark what he used to cut her open with, a chainsaw?  Jodi crashes again and can not be revived.  Mark continues external heart massage until Susan lets him know that it has been thirty minutes and that she is dead. Coburn calls the time of death at 6.46am.  Mark runs out of the ER and goes up to Neo Natal Intensive Care to tell Mr. O'Brien that his wife has died.  Sean is holding his son as he tells him.  Carter tells Mark that what he did was a heroic thing, but Mark doesn't respond.  Susan is worried about Mark, but he gets on the train and goes home.  He is crying.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 09-16-2000

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