If you thought the usual culinary hijinks of The Bear season 3 have been stressful, add childbirth to the mix. Yes, those weren't false labor pains plaguing Natalie (Abby Elliott) at the end of episode 7. Those contractions are very real and very painful, made even worse by the fact that the mom-to-be is alone and stuck in gridlock Chicago traffic on her way to the hospital, and nobody — not Pete (Chris Witaske), not Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), not Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), not Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) — is answering their f***ing phone. So, a desperate Nat does the unexpected: she calls mom.
