What Alex didn't expect when she was expecting

Alex doesn't want kids. She's learnt first-hand from the women in her family how hard it can be when relationships don't work out. But then she meets Tom.

Tom desperately wants to be a dad and Alex wants to be with Tom, so they come to a compromise: they'll have one child together.

But the family Alex ends up with is very different from the one she expects.

• Reporter Tamar Cranswick
• Sound engineer Isabella Tropiano
• Executive producer Sophie Townsend

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