One Born Every Minute

Two eager grandmothers-to-be serve as birthing partners

Liverpool Women's Hospital opens its doors to 16-year-old Heidi, who is accompanied by her own mum Jo, and Adele, the mother of the baby's father, who has decided to take her son's place in the delivery room. Dad-to-be Gavin hopes poetry will help his jittery wife Michelle get through giving birth to their second child, and 46-year-old Jane finds herself laughing through her daughter Louise's contractions as a means of coping with the stress of being a birthing partner