Warning: The following contains spoilers for Chicago Med’s Season 11 finale.

Congrats are in order for Chicago Med’s Hannah Asher and Dean Archer, who welcomed a healthy baby girl named Mabel in Wednesday’s season ender. But that wasn’t the only big milestone for the pair in the finale.

Following the birth of their daughter, Dean finally declared his feelings to his friend. “I love you, Hannah, and I have for a long time. Before our girl, before the Crunch Berries, long before,” he confessed. “I wish I could pinpoint a moment, but if I’m being honest, it wasn’t just one moment. It was thousands of moments which revealed to me what I feel for you, what I’ve always felt.”

Hannah’s response was not exactly what smitten Dean was hoping for. With her pregnancy, work, nightmares and anxiety, her brain “had already hit maximum overload,” so she “couldn’t really process” his feelings or her own, she explained. “But thank you for telling me now,” she added.

When a dejected Dean reassured Hannah that he doesn’t expect anything from her, she leaned in and kissed him. So what does that smooch mean for the co-parents’ romantic future?

Jessy Schram: I think this situation has always been complicated, and that moment continues to make it so. I think that this is something that she’s been avoidant towards. I think she knows that Dean loves her, her dad mentioned that, and it’s now something that she’s seeing in the air, and there’s been a few times where she thought that he was going to profess this, and it wasn’t in a time that she was available to hear it. And now it happens, and he’s so vulnerable, and it’s so beautiful what he shares. And the important thing, I think, was that it was, “Thank you for sharing that now, because now that you’ve shared that, we get to move forward.” It wasn’t like a, “Thank you. I’m going to dismiss you.” It was a, “I’m not ready to say that back.” And at the same time, it was a genuine moment of sharing, “I wasn’t ready for any of this. Thank you for telling me this now and being so honest, so that we can move forward, and we can be in this moment together.” And then that kiss really did come from a genuine place, because she does love him, and she does admire him, and she does respect him, and they are now a family. No matter what that looks like in the future, it was very much a genuine moment of, “I wasn’t ready to handle this. Thank you for being vulnerable with me so that we could move forward. And I appreciate you,” I think, is where that leaves. But it definitely was meant to be ambiguous [in that] this is now a moment that we’ve committed to something, but I don’t think either of them know what that commitment is, or what that looks like.

Allen MacDonald: I couldn’t have said any of that better myself. It was definitely meant to be ambiguous. That final shot is so beautifully done, where he looks at her adoringly, and she looks at him and she smiles, but then she looks back at the baby. He’s expecting more, he’s wanting more, and the fact that she doesn’t return that look leaves him unsure a little bit. But you can just see it on Steven Weber’s face, he decides to compartmentalize and file that away for now and just turn and enjoy the child.

Jessy Schram: I think Dean’s gotten a lot more time to process those feelings, and Hannah is only now in this moment ready and available to start. So I feel like it is that thing of she’s in this moment of they’re a family, and he’s had time, he’s had at least episodes, to figure out when he’s going to share this with her, and this is not something that she’s explored, because she was not ready to. So I think it’s going to take a moment for Hannah to figure out what that looks like, and of course, they would need to do that together, too. It’s not a singular person in a relationship.

Jessy Schram: I don’t believe so. Does she, Allen? I think he possibly could have mentioned it, but I think that there’s been so much going on.

Allen MacDonald: I don’t think there’s been time for him to tell her. And so, I agree with what you said, which is…I definitely think that there hasn’t been time, but they’re in the moment. He’s confessing his love for you.

Jessy Schram: We’re having a baby. Like, our relationship is so deep that I feel like — They are such a new relationship, as well, that that’s probably not the first thing on her mind. It’s more the connection that they have and that they have baby Mabel in front of them right now. Look at this creation they brought into the world, and the bubble of feelings is not letting all the other circumstances come in. It’s really, truly just that moment in time, I think.

Allen MacDonald: Yeah, again, I couldn’t have said it better, because it’s just like they are in it. They are in this cocoon right now. Nothing else matters, nothing else exists. And again, he says, “I love you, Hannah.” It doesn’t matter. Jennifer’s out, one way or another. If he’s telling her, it’s implied in that statement. As a side note, we shot a whole storyline about Archer and Jennifer breaking up, but one of the things we run into a lot that we probably don’t talk about a lot is that, sometimes, the episodes come out really long. We shoot them, and then we have to get it into 42 minutes. And so, decisions have to be made by me [about] what stays and what goes, and I thought that since that was something that Archer says to Sean in the beginning of the [finale], that it was fine.

Allen MacDonald: I have been teasing that something would be wrong with the baby the entire season. I didn’t come out and say it, but — Hell, I probably did. But the insinuation was that in the One Chicago world, there aren’t a lot of babies born without complications — or born at all. Something always happens. And to me, this whole season, the twist was going to be that nothing bad happens. That it is the most normal pregnancy that you can imagine, but that the bumps in it are psychological for Hannah because her mom died in childbirth. Hannah’s been having nightmares about dying herself. She feels that her father blames her for her mother’s death, and she needs to get to the bottom of that. All these things are playing around in her head. So to me, that was the bumps in the pregnancy.

Watch our interview with Jessy Schram and Allen MacDonald above. Then check out the gallery below for our ranking of the 20 best medical dramas ever and to find out where Chicago Med landed on the list.