Radio Times: Review by:; Jane Rackham

A ten-year pregnancy may sound elephantine but as Miranda, a midwife from the recurrent miscarriage clinic at Saint Mary’s Hospital, explains, when a woman has lost several babies it can easily feel that long. Miranda, Claire and Gretta are three specialist midwives who help 1,000 women a year through problem pregnancies.

Teenager Mary’s diabetes, for instance, means she’s at risk of having a stillborn child (Saint Mary’s deal with about 50 a year), while Kelly’s transplanted kidney causes terrifying risks for her. But when any of their patients deliver safely, the tearful midwives couldn’t be more relieved and more thrilled if they’d given birth themselves.

About this programme

4/6. Specialist midwives at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester deal with pregnancies where women and babies' health could be at risk. Miranda Hobson from the recurrent miscarriage clinic helps an anxious patient, while diabetes midwife Gretta Kearney urges an expectant teenage mother to visit the hospital, warning that she risks stillbirth without receiving professional help. Meanwhile, Claire Stanley must decide how to help a 34-year-old woman with a kidney transplant, whose pregnancy has put her life at risk. Narrated by Rupert Houseman.