From Here to Maternity

We meet Trudie and Sean O'Doherty. Trudie has two teenage children, Rebecca and Glynn, from a previous relationship. Now 35 years of age, she is pregnant by IVF and Sean, acknowledged by Rebecca and Glynn as 'Dad', is about to become a biological father for the first time. It's an exciting and highly emotional time for the whole family.

Professor Louise Kenny is one of Cork University Maternity's busiest consultants. "On the first day I saw a baby being delivered and that was it, I was hooked"- Professor Louise Kenny.

Nervous but excited student midwife Ericka is on her first day at CUMH. Plus we catch up with student doctors Tony and Meenakshi, who are expecting twins, and Anita and Colm, who are on their sixth pregnancy after five miscarriages.

For some mothers a natural home birth, with the assistance of a midwife, is the way for them to achieve their best pregnancy and birth experience.

he stories of two couples with plans mapped out for childbirth who learn that can be unpredictable.