Coming soon to ITV- Baby Hospital

A new documentary series that follows the stories of the babies being cared for on the Neonatal unit at Liverpool Women’s Hospital is to air on ITV.

The three part series-Baby Hospital, focuses on what happens when birth doesn’t go as planned and baby ends up in intensive care, teetering between life and death. The behind the scenes doc will show viewers what happens when a baby is born as early as sixteen weeks, and provide an insight into the intensely demanding work of the doctors and nurses tasked with doing all they can to save their tiny patients’ lives.

Programme one follows the lives of three families whose babies’ births have involved complications , being starved of oxygen during the birth process. This leaves the families with a heart wrenching wait to learn whether their baby has suffered from long-term brain damage.

Mum Amy, 18, knows from the outset that her baby son Charlie may not pull through, however she decides to make the most of every day she has with her child. Sadly Charlie lives for just 12 days having suffered a lack of oxygen, which caused un-repairable damage to his kidneys.

Parents Laura and Phil Pover’s baby daughter Olivia was stillborn two years ago, and they desperately need their new baby son Riley to be well. Riley thankfully survives, but it is at a price, as his family discovers he has suffered some brain damage.

Then there is baby William, who has to be brought back to life at birth. Doctors fear he has severe brain damage and try a pioneering new treatment on him where his body is cooled for three days after birth. Weeks after, William surprises everyone and his MRI brain scan comes back clear.

New ITV show-Poms in Paradise

Next Wednesday sees the launch of new ITV show Poms in Paradise, which follows the lives of Britons who have chosen to up sticks and settle in Australia's Gold Coast, lucky things. The documentary style programme will reveal what the expats' lives are like after they make the radical move and if their new home really is paradise.
One man who has emigrated to Oz is 31-year-old Welshman Stuart Snell (pictured), who is a champion in Surf Life Saving, a fusion of the Iron Man challenges and lifeguarding skills. The show follows him as he prepares for this year's first event, a gruelling 500 metre swim through the surf. The programme also meets Marcus and Lorraine and their daughter Sky, who arrived Down Under a year ago and say they are better off than in the UK, despite doing the same jobs.But Lorraine is struggling with being so far away from her family. Then there is Frank, who moved to Australia from Ireland after a bad break-up, and now works in the tropical rainforest near the Gold Coast, nice work if you can get it.

Poms in Paradise is on at 7.30pm on Wednesday 11 May.

What I watched last night....

BBC 3 -Sun, Sex and Suspicious parents

In the first episode of this tame BBC documentary, which encourages parents to spy on their teenagers enjoying their first holiday with friends, eighteen-year-old Joe and Millie let loose (?) on the party island of Malia, supposedly oblivious to the fact that their parents had flown to the island and were spying on them.

The teens, along with their group of friends, enjoyed late night antics, drinking and relaxing by the pool. However despite this being the first holiday without their parents, they failed to make the most of the five days, with Joe the most adventurous daring to wear pink nail varnish and dress in a skirt, attracting unwanted male attention. Millie’s holiday was even more dull, with her and her friends visiting only one club and ordering soft drinks on a night out, boring. Given the choice I would have chosen to be their parents, enjoying a free holiday and spying on their teens, much more exciting.

Surprisingly at the end of the programme when the parents sprung it on their teens they had been watching them, both Joe and Millie didn’t seem too bothered or embarrassed in front of their mates that their parents felt the need to check up on them.

What I watched last night...

BBC1 8pm Polar Bear: spy on the ice

This fascinating documentary, the first to get up close and personal with polar bears, depicted the struggle of the bears as they fought to survive over the summer months. Following numerous packs of bears and their cubs, the programme delved into the personality of the individual bear and revealed how curious they really are, having managed to destroy all of the BBC's cleverly camouflaged cameras disguised as lumps of snow and ice. This was after the bears had played football with snow ball cam, turned ice berg cam upside down numerous time and even uprighted snow cam to ensure the camera caught their best side, who knew polar bears were so vain?