But this week’s episode starts to get at how the loss of little Kyle isn’t something easily glossed over, especially in the physically aching, sleep-deprived state in which Rebecca finds herself on the ride home from the hospital.

And though I focus on the new mom, it’s not like Jack gets off much easier here: As we see in Tuesday’s hour, he’s sad, too.

That trip between the hospital and home is the focus of every storyline this week.

So let’s see how it goes for Madison and Kevin; Toby, Kate and Ellie; Randall and Beth; and the aforementioned Pearson progenitors.

‘WE HAVE A FAMILY’ | Jack and Rebecca prepare to bring Kevin, Kate and Randall home from the hospital. Jack is trying his best to inject some joviality into the day, but Rebecca seems overwhelmed and sad… probably because she’s overwhelmed and sad. Jack’s bravado burns off the minute he realizes he’s a) got to install three carseats and has no clue how, and b) might be even more like his father than he realized.

Then he asks Rebecca to drive home, saying he can more easily turn in his seat to keep an eye on the kiddos.

You are the air,” Rebecca says, boosting him.

Back at the car, she slips into the driver’s seat and lovingly tells Kevin that she’d like him to nap the rest of the way home.

While he sleeps, Kevin dreams that Jack is holding Franny and Nicky.

I was terrified of being like my dad, and you’re terrified of not being like yours,” Grandpa Jack says.

I want to be a family,” he says, slipping his hospital bracelet onto her wrist in lieu of a ring.

ELLIE’S OUT | Toby greets Kate and their new daughter outside the hospital with a huge sign that reads, “Hi Hailey, I’m your dad!” Then they ferry Ellie home, with Kate chattering about future meet-ups and such.

Kate presses a little, confused, but Toby gently tells her to back off.

Later, at home, Kate is upset: Randall’s adoption was so secretive, she says, and it brewed so much pain for him and the family.

“I promised myself it would not be like that for Hailey,” she says.

Toby says they’ll always make sure their daughter knows exactly where she came from.

TWO BLIZZARDS AND A WARNING | As Beth and Randall leave the hospital after Annie’s birth, they’re feeling pretty good about how smoothly everything is going.

Beth — far nicer than I would be, were I the one likely sitting atop a donut pillow for the drive home — says no… and then hell no when her husband doesn’t get the hint.

While she burns off a little ire ordering the ice cream, Randall tells his new daughter that he’s so happy she looks like him, because he grew up not looking like anyone in his family.

(We don’t see who’s inside.) He asks her how the drive was, and she says OK: “It always goes by faster than you think.” (And for a very deep dive into this flash-forward, make sure to check out our ongoing investigation.)