Pramface Babies
C4 Thursday 13 March 2008 9pm
This week's Cutting Edge is a life-affirming film which shifts from the humorous to the intensely moving, following four young mothers-to-be as they deal with some extraordinary trials and tribulations.
Despite the pregnancies being unplanned and a sometimes rocky relationship with the father, the women take it all in their stride, exchanging thoughts on love and motherhood, while finding plenty to laugh about – even as they're giving birth.
For these women there is no pre-birth pamper session, no whale-song soundtrack or birthing pool. All of their babies are unplanned, and the mothers were all young and unmarried when they got pregnant. But they are determined to love their babies and give them all that they can.
The four women featured are just a few of the 8,000 women every year who give birth every at Liverpool Women's Hospital, the biggest of its kind in Europe.