In HBO's Chernobyl, how does Professor Ulana know Lyudmila was pregnant?

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When Professor Ulana Khomyuk visits the hospital in Moscow to talk to the plant workers, she sees Lyudmilla in her husband's room, inside the plastic, and inmediately goes nuclear ( pun intended ). When the nurse comes in, Professor Ulana Khomyuk asks her something like "How can you let a pregnant woman in here?". The thing is, Lydmilla is pregnant but it is not visually evident yet, how can Ulana know? Was there some scene where they met before...

Originally asked by ElBarto on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

If I remember the shots correctly (I watched this last week, but it's possible that I have conflated or misinterpreted things): Immediately before this scene, we see Lyudmilla tell Vasily (her husband) that they're going to have a baby, and we see her take his hand. When Prof. Khomyuk looks through the window, we cut to a shot (from Prof. Khomyuk's POV) showing that Lyudmilla has placed Vasily's hand on her womb. Prof. Khomyuk, seeing a young couple in such a pose, correctly interprets this gesture to mean that Lyudmilla is pregnant.

Full answer by Michael Seifert: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/112762 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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