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Four women attend the Parentcraft ante-natal clinic run by midwife Vicky, herself pregnant. Half of an arranged marriage first time mother Yasmin is slightly irritated by loved-up husband Dev's over-attentive attitude. Businesswoman Roanna Wilson is in dispute with ex-husband Ray over their divorce settlement but happy with much younger lover and baby's father Simon whilst teaching assistant Kim Hall lives with her partner Susie and Susie's recalcitrant son Jude, Susie's ex-husband Neil being Kim's sperm donor though he also seems to want a relationship with her. Following two miscarriages, leading to her adopting, Diane Manning is thrilled when her scan reveals twins but shocked to find that unemployed husband Rick, in desperation, has robbed a bank and been forced to run. Schoolgirl Rosie Hutchinson, one of Kim's pupils, tries to keep her pregnancy secret from her father but has to dash to the clinic when her waters break with Vicky and Kim delivering her baby daughter.
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A guilty Kim and Neil discuss their feelings for each other, agreeing that they cannot tell Susie. Next day Kim visits Rosie in hospital, only to find that her father has had an accident and that social worker Louise wants her and daughter Dinah to move to a mother and baby home. Roanna is finding it difficult living in Simon's cramped flat with his noisy friend but Simon's mother refuses to help, appalled that her son is having a baby with a woman much her own age. To Jasmin's annoyance Dev agrees to let Rick lie low in their house but Rick is recaptured after a visit to the hospital where Diane has successfully given birth to twins. Jasmin herself is kept in for observation with high blood pressure and preeclampsia.
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Rick is granted bail and visits Diane, whose baby daughter is in intensive care and may not survive. Dev comes to see Jasmin but so does Jack, a work colleague and former lover, who believes himself to be her baby's father. Kim installs Rosie and Dinah in her house, rather than send them to a mother and baby home but this is an unpopular move with Susie and her son Jude, so Kim takes her back to her father's flat. After discovering that Ray has cancelled her bank cards Roanna raids his safe before she is visited by Simon's mother Emma, who tells her of her son's failed relationships and lack of funds. However when Roanna goes into labour Emma drives her to the hospital and is present when her child is born.
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After rowing with Susie over Rosie Kim takes the young girl with her and they move in with Neil. Rosie sees them kiss but keeps quiet although she asks Kim if she loves Susie. They visit Rosie's father in the trauma unit but he is confused, following his head injury. Later an irate Susie discovers that her son Luke is the father of Rosie's baby and disowns him. After she has gone Kim gives birth, assisted by Neil, Rosie and Luke. In hospital Diane is still concerned about her daughter's health whilst Jasmin gets a call from Jack, asking if the baby is his. She admits to Vicky that she had sex with him and he could be right. Dev suspects as much and beats Jack up. Vicky herself is annoyed that paediatrician Chris Bellingham, the father of her child, is reluctant to own up to his responsibility and marry her - as Jasmin detects. After learning that her daughter has been charged with shop-lifting Roanna is visited by Simon and Emma, who offers accommodation though Roanna declines.
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Roanna leaves hospital and accepts Emma's offer that she and Simon and baby Sonny come to live with her and her husband Jonathan. She visits Katie, who is self-absorbed and aloof and nothing is achieved. Diane's daughter Hope comes out of danger whilst Susie registers her disapproval to Neil and Kim, the latter feeling guilty and anxious to make up with her girlfriend. Vicky is still concerned at Chris Bellingham's cavalier attitude and Jasmin finally gives birth but the baby, Amber, seems rather too white to be the child of Asian parents. Jack comes onto the ward to explain that he is a haemophiliac and could have passed the condition on to Amber.
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Simon and his parents throw a surprise birthday party for Roanna but Rick is absent, having been jailed for the robbery. Jasmin and Dev also face bad news when the fact that Dev has left Amber locked in his van whilst he was shopping gets into the local paper and attracts social services. Kim makes up with Susie, who nonetheless works out where Kim is happier and takes her to Neil. Chris delivers Vicky's baby and tells her that he loves her. However they cannot marry as, years earlier, as a poor student, he made a marriage of convenience for which he was paid. Unfortunately he has lost touch with the woman who is still his wife.
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