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Julia is deaf and blind and six months pregnant. Abandoned by her partner, yet determined to have a natural birth and bring up her child at home, Julia is indignantly battling the social services who fear for the baby’s welfare. Unable to hear her child’s screams or sense its demands, Julia will have to rely on an in-house helper to translate her baby’s needs through deaf-blind manual sign language. It is an intrusion she does not relish. There are other characters involved. Lisa is a close friend and employee of the National Deaf Blind League. Jill is Julia’s social worker and Anna her live-in carer. Also, at the heart of the film, is a strong, courageous and determined mother and her baby, Ayla. Marilyn Gaunt’s sensitive and powerfully directed film doesn’t dumb down its subject as it follows Julia through the traumatic birth and into the difficult early months of motherhood.

Julia is deaf and blind and six months pregnant. Abandoned by her partner, yet determined to have a natural birth and bring up her child at home, Julia is indignantly battling the social services who fear for the baby’s welfare. Unable to hear her child’s screams or sense its demands, Julia will have to rely on an in-house helper to translate her baby’s needs through deaf-blind manual sign language. It is an intrusion she does not relish. There are other characters involved. Lisa is a close friend and employee of the National Deaf Blind League. Jill is Julia’s social worker and Anna her live-in carer. Also, at the heart of the film, is a strong, courageous and determined mother and her baby, Ayla. Marilyn Gaunt’s sensitive and powerfully directed film doesn’t dumb down its subject as it follows Julia through the traumatic birth and into the difficult early months of motherhood.

Programme Information

  • Genre: Factual

  • Subgenre: Documentary Special

  • Producers: KILROY TV COMPANY LTD

  • Broadcaster: n/a

  • Duration: 1 x 57'

  • Tags: Parenting Disability Blind Deaf

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