Owen and Maisie walked with Karen back to the waiting room. Part of him wanted to get back as soon as possible and be there when the phone rang but the other part of him wanted to stay down in the nursery with his newborn. He couldn't take his eyes off her when he was down there, something he was all too familiar with any time Claire was in his presence. He loved Claire so much. He knew he would find a way to raise two children on his own if he had to, but that was not an option for him. He had to get his mind on something else before the thoughts of having to live without her bottled up too deep inside him. He entered the waiting room to find the whole family still waiting for the phone to ring. About another long hour passed and they still hadn't heard anything. There were a few false alarms when it rang for other families who were also sitting in the waiting room. Finally the phone rang and it was for the Dearing-Grady family. Karen picked up and immediately handed the phone to Owen. The conversation was quick. "Uh huh, okay. I understand. Thank you." He hung up and walked back over to where Karen and the rest of the family were sitting. "The doctor is going to come down and talk to us in just a minute." A few minutes later the doctor entered the waiting room and pulled up a chair to face the whole family. She introduced herself to everyone and shook each one of their hands. Owen was grateful for her kindness but just wanted her to get down to business. "So Claire is stable at the moment." A giant weight lifted off Owen's shoulders. She was alive. She might not be out of the woods yet, but she was alive. That's all he needed to hear in that moment. The doctor continued on with the details of what happened and what their plan of action was to get her back to good health again. "Claire suffered a postpartum hemorrhage. This happens to women sometimes after giving birth. Sometimes it's right away, sometimes it's not for several weeks after having a baby. This is when the mother loses too much blood, causing a hemorrhage. In a lot of cases like Claire's, it can be caused by toxemia which is when the mother's blood pressure gets too high. In Claire's case, her blood pressure was extremely high and then after she gave birth she hemorrhaged and as a result, it caused her blood pressure to plummet very quickly which is also not good, and losing too much blood as well can result in a number of different problems like coma, shock or worse. Of course, we never want to see this happen but it's good that it happened to Claire when it did because she was already in a hospital and we were able to get everything under control more quickly than had she been at home or somewhere else and this happened. She is still getting a blood transfusion right now and we are giving her a drug intravenously called Misoprostol which helps stop the bleeding as well. Maisie spoke up and asked what the word intravenously meant. The adults around her knew what it meant but she didn't know they knew and she was afraid if she waited to ask one of them after the doctor left, she might not get an answer. The doctor could see the look of fear on the small child's face. "It means we put an IV in your mom's arm and we are giving her medicine through an IV. It works faster that way so she can get better faster." Maisie was satisfied with that answer and nodded. She leaned into Owen's side and rested her head on his chest. He wrapped his arm around her, never taking his eyes and ears off the doctor. "So what happens now?" He needed a plan. He suddenly felt like Claire. The doctor responded. "Right now, she is stable but we won't know if she suffered any brain damage from the loss of too much blood until the transfusion is over and we can send her down for an MRI. When she passed out in front of you Mr. Grady, it took us a few minutes to bring her back to full consciousness again and we don't know if she lost any oxygen to her brain during that time. The transfusion takes a few hours. It's about two-thirds complete. Once we do the MRI if everything looks good, we'll ask Claire a number of questions to make sure her brain function is normal and if the bleeding is still under control within a few days she will be able to go home." Owen's heart sank again. He hadn't thought of something like brain damage. He asked to go see her. "When can I see her?" The doctor told him she would take him down there personally so she could check on Claire's progress while she was back down there. "Unfortunately at this time, I can only allow one person back there and it's only for a few minutes until she is awake and more stable." Karen's mom wanted to see her daughter but she held back, knowing Owen needed her more at the moment. She knew Claire needed him more too. The doctor stood up and shook everyone's hand again and thanked them. "Claire has a lot of support and love, clearly. That is very helpful in situations like this. She's very lucky to have all of you." Gray, who had been quiet most of the day, spoke up and said, "No we're lucky to have her." Karen wrapped her arms around her son. He was always so sweet and forgiving. He never made Claire feel bad for not being in his life more in the past. Zach never did vocally but Karen could always tell he held a little bit of resentment towards his aunt. Still, Zach nudged Gray's shoulder in that moment and shook his head to agree with his brother. The doctor waited for Owen at the door. He stood up and told everyone he would let them know how Claire was doing as soon as he came back. He knelt down next to Maisie. "You have been so patient and brave today. I am so proud of you. I know you want to go with me but they will only let one person go back there and you're not tall enough to see over the rails on the side of the bed." He joked and winked at her, trying to lighten the mood for her a little bit, but she only pouted and crossed her arms in the chair. "Karen, please watch her for me." He left the waiting room with the doctor as Maisie watched in fear that he would come back with bad news.