About the Season

The Baby Britain Season explores what life is really like for Britain’s young parents. Tackling everything from post-natal depression to the role of dads in the delivery room, this provocative BBC Three season explores what it means to be a young parent in Britain today.

The Baby Bomb follows parents as they face the most pressurised experience of their lives: the challenge of becoming first-time parents. The couples will face the highs and lows of becoming new parents, dealing with breastfeeding, nappy changing and a serious lack of sleep in the same apartment building.

There are almost 10,000 young offenders in Britain and a shocking 25% are fathers or dads-to-be. For all young parents, having a baby is the biggest challenge of their lives. But how do they cope with the added pressure of parenting behind bars? Prison Dads follows 18-21 year olds serving in Glen Parva, the largest Young Offenders Institute in Europe.

At age 17, Stacey Solomon became pregnant. The birth of her son should have been one of the happiest times of her life but it became one of the worst when she developed post-natal depression (PND). In Stacey Solomon: Depression, Teen Mums & Me, Stacey wants to show that there is life after PND – that support can be found and that, as for her, having gone through the condition with a first child, it may not recur with the second.

This year marks the 50th anniversary since a groundbreaking report first suggested that men should be in the delivery room to be with their partners. But a recent report from the Royal College of Midwives suggests that fathers should be encouraged to take on more of a role in maternity care. BBC Three is taking things a step further in Don't Just Stand There, I'm Having Your Baby. Under the guidance of licenced midwives, first time dads-to-be will take up the challenge of becoming super dads in the delivery room.

Intimate, poignant and life affirming, We’re Having A Baby tells the story of young parenthood, as it’s never been told before. Armed with handheld cameras, young people from across the UK will film themselves over six months as they embark on one of the most significant and remarkable journeys of a person’s life.

Plus, A Special Kind of Mum looks at how disabled mums cope with the highs and lows of parenting, and there will be special edition of Free Speech hosted by Rich Edwards.