Alex Jones: Making Babies - Season 1

Alex starts her training as a fertility assistant at King's Fertility, London. She is put straight to work caring for patients going through IVF treatment. She witnesses first-hand the emotional turmoil and resilience of the patients and is brought to tears in her first embryo transfer.

During her second week at King's Fertility, Alex cares for patients going in and out of theatre and witnesses the emotional turmoil and resilience of the patients undergoing IVF.

Alex is now one month into her training as a fertility assistant and she is finally able to work independently on the early pregnancy scan list.

Alex spends her first shift in Andrology learning about how they analyse and store sperm. She also works with a patient whose only hope of having children is by using donor eggs.

Alex has now been a trainee fertility assistant for two months and she meets two couples desperately trying to start their families.

Alex learns about the hormone injections that 3000 patients a year take at King's fertility to prepare their bodies for IVF. She meets 34 yr old Sharlotte who is freezing her eggs to preserve her fertility.

Alex is hit hard by the struggles of patients going through IVF as she meets Jasmine and Rumen who have had a previous miscarriage and are trying for their second child whilst Rumen is in remission for cancer.

Nearing the end of her training Alex is allowed to assist in complex cases. Here she meets Holly with a rare split womb whose attempting her sixth round of IVF with her husband Mark.

There is heart break and jubilation as Alex meets two couples desperately trying to defy their odds and become parents.

In this emotional final episode three couples await their results. Will they finally become parents? And it's the end of Alex's 6 months training.