<Li> Makemba `` Kem '' Likasu ( Thandie Newton ) begins dating Carter in Season 10 . A French / Congolese AIDS worker in the Congo , Carter meets Kem while working for Doctors Without Borders . They have a passionate , fast - paced romance culminating in Kem 's pregnancy . At eight months , she loses the baby and begins to shut down emotionally . Carter proposes , but she does not answer and moves back to Africa . During their separation , they date others , but when Carter visits her while she is in France , they reconcile , and give their relationship another chance . During Season 11 , we learn Kem and Carter have married but in Season 12 Carter is by himself as he returns to Africa to provide medical aid in Darfur and makes ominous non-specific references to how things with Kem are n't good . In the series finale , Kem returns to Chicago to visit the Joshua Carter Center , posthumously named after their son ; she and Carter interact awkwardly and while she does agree to his idea that they 'll fly back to Paris together . </Li>
<Li> Makemba `` Kem '' Likasu ( Thandie Newton ) begins dating Carter in Season 10 . A French / Congolese AIDS worker in the Congo , Carter meets Kem while working for Doctors Without Borders . They have a passionate , fast - paced romance culminating in Kem 's pregnancy . At eight months , she loses the baby and begins to shut down emotionally . Carter proposes , but she does not answer and moves back to Africa . During their separation , they date others , but when Carter visits her while she is in France , they reconcile , and give their relationship another chance . During Season 11 , we learn Kem and Carter have married but in Season 12 Carter is by himself as he returns to Africa to provide medical aid in Darfur and makes ominous non-specific references to how things with Kem are n't good . In the series finale , Kem returns to Chicago to visit the Joshua Carter Center , posthumously named after their son ; she and Carter interact awkwardly and while she does agree to his idea that they 'll fly back to Paris together . </Li>
who did john carter have a baby with
who did john carter have a baby with
Makemba `` Kem '' Likasu
Makemba `` Kem '' Likasu