WIRRAL mums-to-be are being asked to take part in the new series of Channel 4’s One Born Every Minute.

The seventh series of the BAFTA-award winning show will be filmed at Liverpool Women’s Hospital this October, and its producers are urging mums-to-be from Wirral to come forward.

Wirral women who are due to give birth in October, November and December and would consider featuring on the hit series are being invited to get in touch with Dragonfly – who make the show – to find out more.

Kathryn Thomson, chief executive at Liverpool Women’s, said: “We’re delighted that Channel 4 has chosen Liverpool Women’s as the setting for the next series of One Born Every Minute.

“This is the biggest programme about child birth that there is, and we have some of the best midwives and clinicians in the country, so it feels like a perfect partnership.

“We can’t wait to show off our staff, facilities and of course, our wonderful mums. Many of our mums live on the Wirral, and so we’d love for them to be included on the show.”

 One of only two hospitals in the UK dedicated to the care and treatment of women and their families, Liverpool Women’s Hospital is the largest hospital of its kind in Europe and is an internationally recognised Centre of Excellence, boasting some of the most respected clinicians in their field.

One Born Every Minute celebrates what it really feels like to become a parent, by taking a bustling maternity hospital and filling it with forty remotely-operated cameras, filming 24 hours a day over a seven week period.

Previous series of One Born Every Minute have been filmed in Bristol, Southampton and Leeds and over 150 babies have been born on camera since One Born Every Minute first aired in 2010.

Sarah Swingler, head of Dragonfly West, said: "We are really looking forward to filming the seventh series of One Born Every Minute in Liverpool Women's with its great mix of professionalism, warmth and humour.  

"Even in recent series, One Born continues to tell compelling and magical stories: mums who make it to the hospital with minutes to spare before delivery, home births, twins and triplets, sick babies defying the odds, dads racing to the hospital, miracle IVF babies, and even a baby born in the hospital car park."

Filming from the reception desk to the neo-natal ward; from the operating theatre to the birthing pool, this life-affirming and tender series captures the beginning of life as it really happens. It observes the dramatic, emotional and often funny moments that go hand in hand with bringing a new life into the world, from the perspective of the soon-to-be parents and family, as well as the hospital staff.

 No person who has not given consent will be included in the series, and patients are assured that the level of care that they will receive during this period will not be affected by the filming of the series.

Ms Thomson continued: “We would like to reassure our women that they are, of course, under no obligation to be filmed. The trust and Dragonfly both fully appreciate that the birth of a child is an extremely special time in a family's life and will be working together to accurately reflect what it is like to work and give birth in one of the country's leading maternity hospitals.

“We’d like to reassure our mums-to-be that, whether they choose to be filmed or not, it will not affect the excellent level of care they each receives at Liverpool Women's.”