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23 Week Babies: The Price of Life

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09/03/2011

BBC Two - 23 Week Babies: The Price of Life

Film looking at babies born four months early on a Birmingham neonatal unit.

Director Adam Wishart has unprecedented access to babies born four months early on a neonatal unit, and asks the difficult question: is it always right to keep them alive?

Babies born four months early - in the 23rd week of pregnancy - exist on the very edge of life. A few go on to become the 'miracle babies' of glossy magazines, but most die. Award-winning director Adam Wishart has unprecedented access to the babies born in such extreme prematurity on a Birmingham neonatal unit, and asks the difficult question: is it always right to keep them alive?

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