Birth Day Girls

Liz gives birth to baby Tessa at home, Nikki and Mark get used to the idea of becoming parents and Nicole feels exhausted towards the end of her pregnancy with twins.

Nikki has her twenty-first birthday party and has difficulty finding something to wear. Liz and baby Tessa have a visit from the midwife and Nicole has an anxious visit to the hospital to check on her unborn twins.

Liz is left on her own for the first time since giving birth to Tessa and has her hands full looking after two small children and the new baby. The later stages of Nikki's pregnancy are getting her down and the waiting is over for Nicole and Ralph as Nicole gives birth to her twins.

Nicole and her twins get out of hospital but there is a scare over the smallest twin, pregnant teenager Sarah finds it difficult to plan for her new baby with very little money available and Nikki becomes depressed as her baby is overdue.

Nicole has her hands full looking after two babies as she is left alone for the first time with the twins. Nikki's labour is induced and there's an anxious wait for Mark as she is rushed in for an emergency caesarean section. Sarah and Gary visit the hospital to check the baby's due date as Sarah is concerned the baby is apparently large at this stage in pregnancy.

Sarah gives birth to a baby boy four weeks early, Nikki and Mark settle into parenthood and Nikki attends the antenatal class reunion. We also meet Angela Hargreaves and husband Andrew. Angela needs constant monitoring as she developed antibody C during her first pregnancy and it could be fatal to her unborn child.