'Friends with benefits' Jodie and Stephen are expecting a baby together. Derroll is a devoted stepfather to Maria's four children and now they hope to have a baby together.
Musicians Lucy and James are putting rehearsals on hold to have a baby. Laura and Mike fell in love in hospital when Laura had a life-threatening condition; now they're expecting their second son.
Louise is having her first child at 45, but has gone through a heart-breaking split with her baby's father, Dan. Meanwhile, Jess is 16 and is finally getting a sibling.
Spaniards Isabel and Xabi met in Liverpool and decided to become first-time parents at 40. Nicole and Fran have four children between them and are now having their first together.
Emma and James lost 11 stone between them so that they could start a family. Erika and Jez are on baby number two, after the struggle to conceive number one became an exhausting regime for Jez.
'Tattooed lady' Sazzie and 'scary biker' Adam are having their first baby. So are Jen, who has Crohn's disease, and ex-soldier John. Meanwhile, Jeannie is having her fourth and final baby.
Sarah's expecting twins. She and her mum Pat are both midwives at Liverpool women's hospital and have to overcome their professional concerns to concentrate on the babies' safe arrival.
The hospital faces a bed block crisis and Kristina's twins need delivering fast or she'll have to move to another hospital. Amy and Dave are expecting their first child together.
Sophie had life-threatening complications when her first child was born. Can her boyfriend Kiefer stay calm when baby number two is due? And there's a race against time when Rhoanne's baby gets stuck.
