Grey's Anatomy's Saddest Episode Yet: What's Next for April and Jackson After That Heartbreaking Choice

Stop what you're doing right now and give a round of applause to Sarah Drew and Jesse Williams. (Warning, spoilers ahead!)

Their absolutely devastatingly beautiful and tragic work on tonight's episode of Grey's Anatomy has reduced us to a puddle of mascara-tinged tears, and we couldn't be more impressed at the levels of pain, sadness and hope the two portrayed as married couple April and Jackson found out their baby had type 2 osteogenesis imperfectaaka a fatal bone diseaseand made the decision to induce labor early, and hold their son for the few moments he lived, and then said goodbye...all in a matter of minutes.

No, we're not crying, you're crying!

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As if that storyline wasn't already so gutwrenchingly devastating, it turns out executive producer Shonda Rhimes got the idea from Drew herself.

"The way they resolved it was actually my pitch," Drew tells E! Online. "This story happened to friends of my parents. They were pro-life and they discovered their baby was type 2 and its bones were breaking and it was in pain. They made the heartbreaking decision to deliver the baby early; they induced, they held their baby, they named their baby, they baptized their baby and they buried their baby, giving it the dignity of life it deserves."

Drew was proud of how Grey's Anatomy handled the delicate and painful subject matter, as April and Jackson worked together to make their choice.

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"It's all a question of how do you want to parent your baby," Drew says. "Do you want to give it love for as long as you can? Do you let it stay in pain? Or let the baby's pain end? It's so hard and there are different ways to handle this, and the way we did it on the show was so beautiful."

As for how Avery's mother Catherine (Debbie Allen) ended up being the one to put the solution in words that worked for April and her faith, Drew was proud of that even more.

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Grey's Anatomy's Saddest Episode Yet: What's Next for April and Jackson After That Heartbreaking Choice