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When Arizona wins a prestigious grant to help treat children in Malawi, a disgruntled Callie agrees to move there with her, as the position will last for three years, however her lack of enthusiasm causes Arizona to end their relationship and go without her. A heartbroken Callie moves in with Mark, and they have a one-night stand. Arizona returns for Callie, apologizing and hoping for forgiveness. Callie initially rebuffs her, and later reveals that she is pregnant with Mark's baby. Arizona agrees to raise the child with her, but dislikes that Mark will be a permanent part of their lives. When Callie is twenty-three weeks pregnant, she plans a weekend breakaway to thank Arizona for her support. En-route, Arizona proposes to her, but before Callie can respond they crash into a truck. Callie is treated at Seattle Grace, where her daughter is delivered early. When she regains consciousness, she accepts Arizona's proposal.

As Callie struggled mightily to prove, just a week after her nearly fatal car accident, that she was physically able to get out of her hospital bed and see her struggling daughter, Cristina, who provided much emotional comfort to Callie, gave it to her straight: “She’s mostly tubes and wires and she looks more like a chicken than a baby, like a featherless, beakless chicken. You want to wait ’til she’s cuter.”

Callie narrowed her eyes and said, “You’re the worst godmother ever.”

This Grey’s Anatomyepisode did a fine job of depicting the newborn’s progress during the first 12 weeks of baby Sofia’s life as well as her mother’s own grueling, three-month-long recovery without sugarcoating it. For every moment of levity — like Callie working out by pushing a gurney carrying Cristina (then Meredith too) around the halls — there was a slice of seriousness, as Callie collapsed after she started bleeding because she’d pushed herself too hard physically.

The whole fragile baby storyline wasn’t too much, too emotional or too over-the-top even when Callie freaked out at the prospect of taking Sofia home in a car given that the last time she’d been in a car, both of them nearly died. It all felt right.