Terrible for the father to have to endure this situation again.

I see doctor Charles I click

I love how Dr. Charles is just like: 'Yup Ma'am, we're gonna take excellent care of your totally real, not a doll baby.'

That man has been so strong and the fact that he’s been there for her through this is amazing

This is so so sad. The unimaginable grief of losing a child, especially if you feel responsible

I salute the husband for staying calm

The role playing is very therapeutic for the mom to say goodbye to her baby

Apparently this is a pretty common thing that can happen. In my home town there was a elderly woman carrying around a baby doll and feeding it with a small golden spoon. Turns out when she was young and pregnant she was r@ped by two men and lost the baby.

As a mother of a stillborn (39 weeks pregnant) I can relate to the mother at some point. I went through a difficult time but I think, a reborn baby would make it even worse for one mental health.

As an adult who has a baby doll that goes everywhere with me, I've seen many different reactions to having her with me. And personally, I'm quite impressed with how the doctors there handled the situation even before knowing exactly what was going on. They didnt just kick her out, they actually tried to help. So. Good on them. Incase anyone was wondering why I have my baby doll, I have autism. As well as a few other things that we know are there but they haven't been officially diagnosed yet. My baby helps with communication, she helps with staying calm especially in shopping centres and cars and stuff like that where it can get extremely overstimulating. And she provides a little bit of companionship, I guess? I think it's also related to early childhood trauma that I got. Unlike the lady in this video, I know my baby isn't real. But she wears real baby clothes and she has her own personality and if she gets hurt I get upset. Stuff like that. So.. she's real to me, even though I know she isn't technically alive. Now, please don't reply to this with anything negative, I get enough of that just leaving my house with baby. I'm only posting this to say my opinion on the video, and explain why I have that opinion so that people understand. If you don't like it, just leave me alone..

At where I work, there was a pregnant woman who had a terrible car accident and she had bleeding in her abdomen. After surgery the mother was doing somewhat okay and regained her consciousness, but the baby was not in a good condition. He had like massive bleeding in his brain and severe brain hypoxia. The doctors said he wouldn’t make it. The mother asked to hold her baby for the first and last time. We transferred the baby with all the equipment from NICU to SICU to his mother so they can have a brief moment together. A very sad day for all the staffs.

The husband is very understanding and sweet,Dr Charles handled this with a lot of compassion too

Dr Charles is so tender… he’s definitely my fav. My heart breaks at the point at the end when she’s finally saying goodbye to her baby and seeing her cry… so hard

I’ve watched this episode before, and rewatching it now hits like a tank having had my very young mother pass on abruptly, I never got to say goodbye. And while it’s not an identical experience, I still feel with the mom and anyone else who’s gone through this

Oh my gosh. What an episode. And having the father relive all that was brutal. As always superb story.

Dr. Charles belongs in a fairytale. The way he always assure mentally struggling patients and showing that he is believing in them, that require so much patience.

it must be heartbreaking for the dad to relive the trauma, but i get how it could help the mum say goodbye properly.

The actor playing the ex-husband does such a good job playing someone who is NOT an actor, awkwardly acting his way thru this scenario where he has to pretend all this is really happening.

They are freakishly real looking. I once picked up a reborn for a friend in my car and the whole way home I freaked out “what if a cop sees a baby laying in the passengers seat?!?”

One thing that struck me is the fact that new mothers fear that scenario. Dropping our babies. We stay awake watching them breathe. I don’t know a new mom that hasn’t had thoughts of “what if” in the really early days and been frightened of hurting their baby all the while feeling such an over abundance of love and protection for them.

I got two reborn dolls as a little kid, they were so nice to play with, especially because I played nicely with dolls generally. I still have them, they're super cute. Sometimes i take them out and hug them when I'm going through my childhood toys and they make me feel like a child again

As a Dr aspiring to be a psychiatrist, i love how all the rarest of the psychiatrist diseases come in this show. Gives me an idea on how to approach patients like these if i come into contact with them even if its 1 in a million possibility for that to happen

I bought a reborn after I found out I can't have kids. It got me through a difficult time.

There was a movie actress in my country who couldnt have child or has miscarriage or something, so she ended up doting on these stuffed dolls and she treats them as her children. Not as extreme as this and she still acknowledges that the dolls are not real babies but seeing them made me understand that these traumas really can happen.

✨I wish drs were paid enough and had enough time with people to care as much as they have 💞✨

I have to comment that I think all of you with any extra challenges facing the world we live in today are truly courageous and beautiful in your adaptations that assist you. So many of us supposedly ‘normal’ folk have invisible crutches that we rely on to get us through like drink, drugs, etc. I hope you can take strength from the positive comments on here and know that there are those of us out in the world that applaud you.

Reborn dolls are such good therapy for those struggling with grief. These people do not need ridicule, they need support.

I’m going to hell for laughing when he said, “this is a doll.” Lmao

This is sad for new parents or even the not so new ones. Losing a child at this really young age is devastating. I appreciate Dr. Charles by letting her still be in that moment to straighten things out. I know it's TV show, but still, my heart goes to these grieving parents..

So tragic. To have to relive the worst moment of your life twice even if only in your head.

Dr Charles rocks all of our worlds 🌎

Omg heart breaks for everyone all round... father would have to be so strong to endure this all over again and deep down the mother is grieving all over again aswell. But as they said "she's finally saying goodbye to her baby"🍼... can you imagine a medical system that would support and enact this in order to help a grieving couple for a loss of their baby from a year ago?! I don't think they would, but I'd like to think they would...

At the start i didn't really understood, but now this is actually so sad when i think about it and can totally understand how it could happen in real life..

Mental health is real. A little issue can cause a complete override of our mental faculties🤔

This is similar to "reliving" which is part of the treatment for PTSD.

Dr Chalse makes u feel calm just with his tone while speaking. The fictional character can make u feel calm is something weird.

That Mum is an amazing actress.

I so appreciate how compassionate Dr. Charles is... Our minds are really very fragile and when someone has gone so far as to slip into a delusion like this they really do need someone who can help them regain their footing in reality in a patient, gentle way- not someone who just callously rips away their emotional crutch... I hope there are psychiatrists in real life who treat their patients in a dignified, empathetic way like this

I only wish real doctors are as invested in their patients as these drs in all the medical dramas.

Sorry dad😢😢😢😢. Soooo glad mum can finally find peace😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Oh boy 😭 so poignant but compassionate

To understand the mother you need to understand how grief works. I finally got work just before my benefits ran out. My boss was quadraplegic and I had to drive his van. I turned too quickly and his wheelchair tipped. Soon after that my boss died of a nosebleed. I had to go to the office, call his patients to cancel the appointments. I still cleared the snow from the wheelchair ramp and kept his office door closed. At the funeral i was convinced it was a celebration tribute. I did not sleep for a week. Sometimes grief is powerful enough that the mind just will not accept it. What Dr. Charles did was recognize that and help her get closure. Good episode.

Hoping for a Chicago Psych with Doc Charles!!

Excellent acting in this episode. You can see and feel the empathy.

What makes this episode better is that the show probably uses baby alive-like baby body doubles for certain scenes where they need a baby in a precarious situation (I.e. when they give them cpr) all the time. It gives this story about a realistic baby alive doll this kinda funny meta layer to it.

I used to volunteer delivering meals to the elderly, one time I was delivering two meals to what I thought was an elderly couple, turns out it was an old lady and a stuffed bear who she thought was her husband who passed away, I enquired and she didn't have dementia or anything that prevented her from living by herself, it was eye opening, I've seen people with degenerative conditions who are similar but never someone who was otherwise healthy and came off completely normal.

if this happened in a public hospital in South Africa no one would be indulging this woman, they will voetsek you out of the waiting area, doctors don't have the time for this in the public system.

I know this is just a show, but I couldn’t help the tears..😢

I didn't expect to cry

This is already the second chicago med clip I've watched where they handle delusions very well. You need to acknowledge the delusion and not deny it

This is heartbreaking

Interesting, so it's like a PTSD dissociation

Oh and would you look at that, Dr Charles brought in to be a f*cking legend again

So, she was trying to change the outcome, but she made the same decision her husband did? She just wanted to participate, right?

why is maggie’s hair always looking fire??

I hope we'll see the continuation of the crossover with Dylan in this series. Maybe with him that I want to make amends for Olinsky's daughter's death in him way by making himself him fortieth victim. I would find it satisfactory.

This was the best thing, Sarah's mother was unconscious during Sarah's end-of-life decision making. She needed peace and closure.

This is really heartbreaking 😢

Never liked those dolls, always thought they would cause problems like this

You just don't know what someone may have been experiencing...be as gentle as you can with others & yourself.

Sometimes you just have to play along to help someone move on

That’d never happen in the hospital, not enough beds or staff to give one up for a doll

They are reliving her babies death.....

Really great show. This show is very well made. This is my next show to binge watch.

This is so sad..Dr is very nice man to pretending that Sarah is alive not doll and helping women.Her husband too..:( I know real simiral cases like that and this is heartbreaking:(

What’s funny is, quite a few years back, there was a french documentary about a teenager who also had dolls like that and treated them like real babies, and the mother lowkey looks like an older version of that girl. I bet the people who wrote that episode saw that documentary

Why those hospital staff sound like police 😂

lol, the mom is the girl from a Chicago PD episode where she’s the baby-mama of a guy who committed Arson to a guy who posed as a CI. this was right after Voight’s son, Justin, died. 😆

Well that got me tears rollin'

Thank you for sharing and therefore helping me understand. ♥️

Oh wow, very sad very moving 😢 I have tears in my eyes.

That was so powerful

I kind of low key, want a reborn doll. Just because me and my husband are child free. I don't ever want to be a real mom, or have kids. But sometimes I have that parenting feeling just because of nature. Lol and it be fun to pretend sometimes, just to get over that or to experience a little bit of what other people my age might be going through haha.

Dude wasn't even trying 😑: you're the mother you decide

Is this the same actress as the one who played the mother who couldn't feel pain? (She does a great job though!)

Heartbreaking story.....

Glad you’re posting

yay! these videos are amazing

I’ve got a reborn and they are so so so so realistic but I haven’t seen someone so obsessed with one

"My baby needs help" No I think you do

Really sad. Nothing wrong with reborns, even not when you act like they're real sometimes. But this, really sad. :'(

The lady must have lost her real baby to get a reborn

Imagine the bill this lady’s gonna get for a doll lmao.

i cant imagine her pain

Im crying 😢😢😢

Why wouldn't they get the surgery??? It was there one chance to save the kiddo.

Maybe if all the Money sent to corporations could be used for the betterment of the American people, there could be compassionate and caring Hospitals again. Just a Thought

The clip: *Really emotionally draining, sad moment, as a grieving mother finally gets a chance to say goodbye to her baby and begin the healing process* Overly enthusiastic end screen music: *Starts suddenly* I know I really shouldn't but I always laugh at moments like that, when something really sad is happening and its suddenly interrupted by the end card lmao

Loved this

This is so sad.

So do they have to arrange a pretend funeral too?

I felt so embarrassed when it was a doll 😭

There’s a tv show from apple tv that has this exact premisse, it’s called Servant, and it was created by M. Night Shyamalan so its reeeal creepy

wow...just.......wow.

But what would have happened if the mother still wanted the surgery?

Omg no way man

Very nice video

If the situation were real, on the "slim chance" the operation would succeed, the mother would have insisted on the procedure, and rightly so.

Seems so easy if not in real life 😭

You can see the two different grieving processes and differences. The father doesn't like the idea of a doll and it hinders him from grieving properly and moving on but the mother needs it to cope and help her. Both are suffering.