One Born Every Minute

Hopes and fears about parenthood provide the theme to tonight’s One Born Every Minute. Sarah Sanderson (27) met her current partner Jamie (24) in a pub and challenged him to a drinking competition, which she won. He is a massive rugby fan and hopes they will be having a boy and has already bought the baby several Leeds Rhino replica outfits. He’s no idea how he’d bring up a girl “I’d have to play dominoes or dolls with her”. However the sex of the baby is unknown. Sarah’s pregnancy has been understandably stressful because the last time she was pregnant she delivered a stillborn baby at 22 weeks. She was told she’d never be able to carry a child to full term, and had come to an acceptance of life without children. But after feeling nauseous at work, one final pregnancy test gave her the good news she hadn't dared dream of. At the hospital midwives discover her baby is lying sideways (transverse) which is problematic for an easy natural birth. Her anxiety is increased even further when she beings to hemorrhage... Natalie (28) and her husband Anthony (32) are hairdressers and run a hair salon together. It might not be everyone’s cup of tea to live together and work together but they love it. They can’t wait to find out how much hair their baby has and dream of the day when they put their own son in the barber’s chair... Natalie isn’t anxious about childbirth herself, but her mother, Brenda, is because she once had a stillborn child herself. The fear associated with that experience hasn’t diminished with time, but she’s determined to be at her daughter’s bedside.