Observing the staff and patients of a maternity ward, beginning with 37-year-old Tracy, who is in labour for the fourth time.

Sam is in labour with her first child and is finding the pain too much to bear; her boyfriend Ed, mum and the midwife team are doing everything they can to make her more comfortable, but she becomes increasingly upset.

Lisa's baby Jack must undergo medical procedures for the first few days of his life; Lisa must wait for weeks to take him home.

While Joy waits to deliver her first baby conceived via in-vitro fertilisation, Kelly is admitted to give birth to her fifth child.

Abbie and Ross are both 17 and have been together for three years; her mum Donna, a paramedic, has delivered 15 babies, but that can't prepare her for the emotional wrench of her baby having a baby.

For Shelagh's baby son it is a dramatic start with an ambulance journey to the hospital and a caesarean when his heart rate dips during labour; Penny is also excited about her new arrival but when labour starts her husband Ben finds it difficult.