Dr. Kendrick’s research helps explain why Clare has struggled to carry a baby to term. While it’s helpful to finally have at least a partial answer to this mystery, Dr. Kendrick’s findings aren’t entirely positive. While he proposes a possible solution of suppressing Clare’s immune response, his findings about time-traveling mice causing their mothers to hemorrhage to death raises the possibility that a future pregnancy could very well kill Clare. Once more, Henry contemplates the ethics of knowing the risks involved and yet continuing to try for a baby anyway. Increasingly he and Clare aren’t seeing eye to eye about having a baby: though Clare is still hopeful, Henry’s doubt only deepens.