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Channel 4

 1 x 50 minutes
Transmitted March 2008

A Century Films
production for
Channel 4

Narrator
Liza Tarbuck
Composer
Matthew Cracknell
Additional Photography
Georgie Burrell
Eleanor Harrowes
Assistant Producer & Camera
Charlotte Davis
Executive Producer
Ruth Pitt
Film Editor
Marc Davis
Produced & Directed by
Philippa Robinson

 

Pramface Babies (2008)

There are triumphs and tragedies on an hourly basis in the remarkable real-life soap opera that unfolds in the delivery rooms at Liverpool Womens Hospital, the biggest of its kind in Europe.

Every woman has a story to tell - but lots have a familiar ring to them. Take Linzi, for instance, whose mum says: "I knew from the moment Linzi turned twelve that it was only a matter of time before she got pregnant. I'm surprised she actually waited until she was eighteen before it happened."

Witness hilarious but often intensely moving scenes as young mums with no shortage of scouse humour hunt for their boyfriends, agonise over choosing baby names, sneak out for a crafty fag, bite their birthing partners, get wasted on gas and air and - amazingly - find plenty to laugh about as they give birth.

All the babies are unplanned but the new mothers resign themselves to their fate surprisingly happily. As single mum Katie says, "It wasn't planned, it just happened, there wasn't any question of getting rid of it, but I wouldn't be without him now".

Photograph: Richard Anset
"Showed that behind tedious politicians' and columnists' tirades about teenaged single mums, there is a world of tenderness and yearning"
Robert Hanks, The Independent

"Dead funny"
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian