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A newborn baby has problems breathing. House and team run diagnosis. House babysits Cuddy's daughter. Did she eat a dime? Foreman finds a new female doctor for the team. House fires her and Taub has to find a new one.

A mother of a grown daughter gives birth to an infant; the adult daughter exhibits some jealousy over her mother's so-called improved parenting skills. House places Taub in charge of interviewing for a female physician to join the team. When both the mother and infant have issues diagnosed as possible liver failure, lung cancer and melanoma. Dr. Cheng, a female pediatric physician, assists Taub and the team to treat the pair. Dr. Cheng really wants to join House's team. A transfusion with the mother's blood yields good results for the infant; the mother develops a pulmonary embolism. The grown daughter rallies to protect her infant sibling when her sister needs her. Meanwhile, Cuddy has several evening meetings and asks House to sit with baby Rachel; House panics and he enlists Wilson's help. The pair leave the 2 year old alone with a bag of Chinese food for about one minute... this leads to capers at PPH that mimic a 3 Stooges film. The resulting "poop" on the subject is not too favorable to either doctor. Then, House gets "ratted out" to Cuddy by a 2-year old.—LA-Lawyer

After a newborn experiences inexplicable breathing problems and liver failure, House and the team look at the baby's mother, Abbey's, own medical history for possible clues. When the team makes a discovery about her newborn's health, Abbey is presented with a difficult decision that could potentially affect both her baby's health and her own. Meanwhile, following Cuddy's directive, House challenges Foreman and Taub to hire a female doctor to join the team. When Cuddy asks House to babysit her daughter, both House and Wilson learn a few hard lessons in parenting.—Fox Flash

Open with a 40-something woman in labor. Her adult daughter (who arrived somewhat late) is filming. Once the baby is delivered the doctors announce it is hypoxic and call for a NICU team.

House (Hugh Laurie) tells the team their latest case is a newborn with a mysterious breathing problem.

Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) takes House aside and asks for babysitting help with Rachel that night. He reluctantly agrees.

House suggests looking at the newborn baby's liver.

The team splits and House tells Foreman (Omar Epps) to hire a woman.

That night Rachel gets out of bed and tells House she wants some juice. He says no and sends her back to her room. House calls Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) and asks if he's up for a "boys night in."

New mother Abbey (who we find out got pregnant via sperm donor) and older daughter Justine (Gabrielle Christian) watch as the team checks the baby and finds dilated bile ducts.

The team calls House via speaker phone. He is speaking smoothly to try and get Rachel back to sleep. Foreman introduces him to the new female doctor he's hired. House promptly fires her just to take Forman down a peg. House assigns Taub (Peter Jacobson) to hire a new doc. House suggests the team perform surgery on the newborn and hangs up.

Wilson arrives with Chinese food. House immediately tries to leave and pawn the babysitting off on Wilson which leads to a game of leave-the-kid-by-herself chicken in the driveway. After a few moments, they return to find Rachel has gone through the food and has a quarter in her mouth. Before surgery on the newborn, another doctor (Cheng) suggests another option and they stop when her BP spikes.

Outside of the OR, Chase (Jesse Spencer) suggests a non-surgery option. Taub asks the guys what they think of hiring Cheng. Taub is scared to hire (Keiko Agena) on his own for fear of getting the same treatment Foreman got and wonders if there is a way to trick House into hiring her himself.

The quarter comes out, but a look at the bill leads House and Wilson believe Rachel may have swallowed a dime. With Cuddy coming home in the background, they discuss the possibility the coin could get stuck in her intestines and cause a dangerous blockage. She must be monitored for 24 hours. Wilson sneaks out the window while telling House he needs to tell Cuddy about the dime. Cuddy comes in the room and House says nothing.

The newborn takes a turn for the better and Abbey (Jennifer Grey) is able to hold her for the first time. Justine walks in and we see there is tension in the relationship.

Taub mentions House's team to Cheng, who is a pediatric specialist. She seems interested. He says there may be a way for her to be hired without an interview.

That night, House jumps up to check on Rachel when she makes a noise. He opens up her diaper and is picking through it with chopsticks when Cuddy pops her head in.

The next morning, House gets a call from his team. He hadn't heard about Cheng spotting the vascular malformation in the baby's in the OR. House thinks there is no way a malformation is causing the baby's problem and assures them there will be more problems.

While Abbey holds the baby, she and Justine discuss her belief Abbey is being a better mother for this new baby than she ever was for Justine. The baby begins to bleed.

House and Wilson sneak a sleeping Rachel into the hospital to give her an ultrasound. Taub calls to tell House the baby is bleeding as Wilson finds what he thinks is a dime. House thinks it could be a pocket of air. The only way to know for sure is an X-ray. The plan is to give Rachel some laxitives. Taub knocks on the door, House pops his head out and orders they give the baby a direct blood transfusion from Abbey.

Almost instantly, the baby is better. House has no idea why.

With Cheng participating in the conversation, they determine Abbey's blood could be a unique benefit to the kid. They will try and see if Taub's blood has any affect.

House takes Cheng aside and offers her a "test," basically describing what has been happening with Rachel. He directs her back to Taub.

House tells Wilson they have six hours left before Rachel needs to be scoped. Since that is roughly when Cuddy gets off work, House grabs Wilson's radiation badge and compromises it, creating the impression the hospital has a leak.

Taub's blood does nothing. They will need to take more samples.

As House planned, Cuddy now has to work late. She asks him to babysit again and he agrees.

During a test on the baby, Taub and Foreman find she doesn't have an infection. The newborn actually has skin cancer, contracted from Abbey.

A mole was found under one of Abbey's index finger nails and a biopsy revealed melanoma. During a team meeting, House wonders how Abbey could have late-stage cancer and still be so healthy. Something in Abbey's blood is fighting something else which happens to be treating the cancer.

Abbey has blood drawn. She tells Taub she was so careful throughout the process. After he leaves Justine apologizes for criticizing her mother parenting earlier.

While testing Abbey's blood, Cheng tells Taub about her conversation with House. Taub thinks he told her the hire was his decision to "set me up" and Cheng is confused. Taub says he needs to find out what House is up to.

Wilson calls House. After three poops, Rachel still has not passed the dime. He grabs some equipment and leaves the hospital.

Taub asks Foreman about the Cheng situation while they examine Abbey on a scan. They find Abbey has lung cancer: "Cancer treating cancer?" Foreman says.

Taub and Foreman tell Abbey she has lung as well as skin cancer. The lung disease is treating the skin disease which is why her blood is helping the baby. The cancer should be treatable, but they need to go after her tumor soon. They tell her the baby will get chemotherapy, which poses a small risk to its development. They could elect to hold off on her treatment for the eight or nine days it would take to help the baby, but that could be risky. Abbey says she wants to wait on treating herself and Justine is upset at the choice. This causes a debate, but Abbey stays with her decision to hold off on surgery.

Wilson and House get Chinese food again and realize their last order was slightly different than they thought. Rachel couldn't have swallowed a dime because there wasn't an extra dime to swallow.

Justine finds her mother unconscious in the nursery and yells for help. It turns out she had a massive pulmonary embolism which killed her in seconds.

Taub tells Cheng it probably wouldn't have happened if they treated her right away. They were able to harvest enough of her blood to treat the baby. Taub then formally offers Cheng the job. She tells him she doesn't want to work on the team because of him, because he chose to act like "a paranoid scared little kid" when House gave him the option to hire her.

We see it appears Justine is already taking a parental role with the baby.

Cuddy gets up from bed to check on Rachel while House listens on the monitor. She finds a dime in Rachel's diaper and asks how she could have eaten a dime: "House," comes the answer.