Birth Day Girls

Home birth; Nikki and Mark discuss parenting; exhausted Nicole.

Nikki celebrates her birthday; Liz gets a visit from the midwife.

Liz is on her own for the first time since delivery.

Nicole and her twins leave the hospital; pregnant teenager Sarah has money worries.

Nicole copes with the twins on her own; Nikki's labour is induced.

Sarah gives birth to a boy four weeks early; Nikki and Mark settle into parenthood.

Sarah and Gary prepare to take their baby home; Karen and Stewart plan a water birth.

Angela is taken to the hospital to be induced; Sarah looks at a potential future home.

Angela gives birth to a boy; Sarah's moving day does not run smoothly.

Karen has a water birth at home; Angela has her last day at work.

Karen and Stewart celebrate the birth of baby Beatrice.

Angela gives birth to twins; Nikki and Matt attend a water-birth class.

Pre-eclampsia forces Nikki to have a Caesarean section.

After being diagnosed with pre-eclampsia, a potentially fatal condition, Nikki doesn't get her wish for a water birth and gives birth to baby Ewan by caesarean section. Three days from her due date Berrin has her first antenatal class and decides she doesn't want husband Faruk present at the birth. Angela settles down to looking after twins Halle and Leah and older daughter Gabi.

Berrin has a complicated labour; Tracie looks forward to the birth of her sixth child.

Tracie faces possibility of premature labour; Berrin settles in.

Ravinda is nervous about the birth; Tracy books a Caesarean and considers sterilisation.

Ravinda is anxious as she goes into labour. Tracy's having 2nd thoughts about being sterilised. Nicola overcomes her fear of miscarriage.

Tracy goes to have a Caesarean; Nicola's baby is in the wrong position.

Nicola goes into labour; baby Alana goes home to meet her five brothers.