Birth Stories

Follow a fitness instructor wanting to avoid the trauma of her last delivery and a recovering crack addict and stripper changing her life for her baby.

Cheryl tries to make her welfare check stretch and, as Tracy gets ready for her C-section, her stockbroker husband conducts business from the hospital prep room.

A couple who run hip, downtown bar look to fit their child into their noisy, alternative lifestyle while Tracy and Michael welcome their baby boy.

Circumcision of their sons is an emotionally-charged issue for two couples, Cindy has a Cesarean and Cheryl, gets darker and more desperate as her due-date draws near.

Lynn ends up having a Cesarean. while a harried mother of two is expecting twins. Cheryl gives birth, and cries over fears she can't keep her baby.

A glamorous Korean businesswoman who never wanted a baby, but, ready or not, is about to have one. In a dramatic sequence, Maya gives birth to her twins and worries about the health of the smaller one.

Sumi, who's never liked babies, gears up to stop working and start breast-feeding. Maya and the one-week-old twins are back in the hospital when one gets meningitis. Lynn and Edward struggle to make room for their son in their tiny house. Nature gets ready to go out dancing for the first time since the birth of her daughter.

A dancer gives a performance just weeks before her due-date. Cindy and Jack head out with their band and their one-month-old in tow. Sumi's seems numb and traumatized by the whole experience.

Shirley, now eight months pregnant, and her husband visit the cemetery where their first still-born child is buried. Meanwhile, Heather's dream of an "at home water birth" is shattered.

Sue still can't decide whether she and Tyler should reunite and raise James together. Sumi and Mike celebrate their son's 100th day with a party, as is the Korean custom.

Sue takes three-month-old James to Boston to visit his father. After hours of labor at home, Julia and her midwives go to the hospital where she has a natural birth.