Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: Firstborn
A film that has taken more than 18 months to make. Two couples: Ally and Mike Scandrett-Smith, and Pat and Peter Robinson; both had their first babies last year:
Now two baby boys are growing up.

But the film starts long before then, lives with the couples through pregnancy, birth, and looks at the beginning of childhood, It looks, too, at what happens to couples, adjusting as they are to a world that is two, Who must then face the further adjustment of being three. Two's a couple - three's a family.
The arrival of a firstborn is something special. There is nothing quite like it. It can never happen again. Children are said to make a marriage, but they can also strain a relationship. And couples must learn to adjust and grow.
This is the story of how two couples waited for, and went through, the arrival of their firstborn.
(When baby makes three...: see page 4)