The episode received mixed reviews from critics and came first in its time slot, helping NBC be the third highest-rated network of the night.
Angela is initially excited, but becomes annoyed after Dwight draws up a parenting contract with absurd demands he wants her to agree to.
Pam realizes she has forgotten her iPod with her desired birth music on it so they request that Dwight retrieve it from their house, asking that he not "touch anything".
Pam's breastfeeding does not go well, and though a male lactation consultant is summoned to provide apparently successful coaching, Cecelia still fails to latch properly.
Against the advice of the nurse, Jim and Pam opt to have Cecelia spend the night with them instead of in the nursery, and they are kept up long hours tending to her.
At the Halpert residence, Dwight embarks on a search for the iPod only to find mold under the sink and moves in for several days while he reconstructs the cabinets.
Jim and Pam arrive home with the baby and find Dwight and their wrecked house, but decide not to question it.
He particularly objected to the length that Pam's refusal to go to the hospital is stretched out, since the entire office supporting her irrational decision even after her water breaks was "uncomfortable and unbelievable".
[8] Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly gave the episode a positive review saying "Last night managed to combine a thoroughly believable and funny central idea—that Pam would try to delay going to the hospital to get some extra time, gaming the office’s “stupid HMO”—with a batch of fine Michael scenes and a thoroughly didn’t-buy-it-for-a-second Dwight subplot.
Club gave the episode a B+ saying "It felt a little padded and implausible and lurched from one radically different tone to another but it was also very funny and intriguingly prickly and real when it wasn't being cartoonish and over the top.