A baby intercom – so if we’re downstairs we have to go all the way up, you know, tell it to shut up and that. The Royle Family s2e4: Nana Comes to Stay, BBC 1999
Cheryl: He’s [Baby] gone down.
Denise: Who? The Royle Family s3e3 ***** Decorating with Twiggy
Down a dusty back street in a rural Indian town one house is home to a hundred pregnant women. They’re carrying babies they’ll soon hand over to couples from around the world. And it’s all the work of Dr Nana Patel. She’s the pioneer of a booming commercial surrogacy industry. House of Surrogates, BBC 2013
Sam & Yana have paid a fee of around $28,000 to Dr Patel’s clinic for its services. ibid.
The surrogate mothers have no genetic link to the babies they carry. ibid.
Returning home with your newborn can be fraught with difficulty. ibid.
‘The surrogate gets on average $8,000.’ ibid. Dr Patel
I want you to look into see how much a little Chinese baby would cost. (Office & Baby) The Office US s3e2: The Convention, NBC 2006
Babies are one of my many areas of expertise. Growing up I performed my own circumcision. The Office US s5e5: Baby Shower, Dwight
The baby could be anybody’s. Except Michael’s. ibid. Dwight
I love babies. I think they are beautiful in all sorts of different ways. I try to pick up and hold a baby every day, if possible, because it nourishes me. It feeds my soul. Babies are drawn to me. And I think it’s because they see me as one of them ... If a baby were President, there would be no taxes. There would be no war. There would be no ... government, and ... things could get terrible. ibid. Michael
I want to have a child for business reasons. The Office US s6e17&18: The Delivery, Dwight
Technology is on the brink of rewriting the rules of procreation. We could soon make children from two fathers. Or two mothers. Babies could grow outside the womb ... Will sex become extinct? Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman s4e5: Will Sex Go Extinct? Science 2013
Meet the mums who are bringing up babies on the dole. Benefits: 19 Kids and Counting, Channel 5 2014
Nestle and baby food substitutes … It’s how it is used: the World Health Organisation and Unicef say that if you could reverse the downward trend of breast-feeding, you could actually save one and a quarter million children’s lives. Mark Thomas Comedy Product s4e3, Channel 4 1999
Get the information on the [baby milk] packages in languages that people understand. Mark Thomas Comedy Product s4e7
I was in America exploring the traumatic world of open adoption. In Britain if you give your baby up for adoption the Social Services decide who will adopt. But here the birth parents can choose for themselves and get to stay in touch with their child as it grows up. Stacey Dooley in the USA: Letting Baby Go, BBC 2014
‘I’m expecting a big … big breakdown. As long as I can get through it I’ll be OK.’ Stacey Dooley: Giving Up My Baby, new mother, BBC 2018
I was here to experience how young women make the daunting decision of giving up their newborn babies and how they choose the new parents. ibid.
Since the lockdown began almost a quarter of a million babies have been born in the UK. I’ve come to Bradford to spend a week on the front-line of a maternity unit finding out how the pandemic has hit pregnancy and birth. Panorama: Stacey Dooley & the Lockdown Babies, BBC 2020
What is the new normal for babies born in 2020? ibid.
This is Bradford Royal Infirmary. Over 5,500 babies are born here every year. But over the last few months maternity services have had to change radically to keep women and children safe. ibid.
‘It just never occurred to me that I would be going in with a healthy baby and she would end up fighting for her life.’ Panorama: Maternity Scandal: Fighting for the Truth, mother, BBC 2022
It’s one of the biggest scandals in the history of the NHS. Babies who should have been perfectly healthy suffered permanent harm or died. Failure after failure over two decades … and the families forced to fight to uncover the truth. ibid.
What happened at Morecambe Bay should have led to improvements of maternity services across the UK. Poor care had contributed to the deaths of eleven babies and a mother at Furness General Hospital. An enquiry in 2015 found a dysfunctional maternity unit and heard about an overemphasis on normal birth at any cost. ibid.
I love the smell of new babies. Brings back memories. Ray Donovan s4e4: Federal Boobie Inspector, Abby to Ray, Showtime 2016
We ask why Britain has some of the worst breastfeeding rates anywhere in the world. We reveal the latest scientific evidence showing the crucial role breast-milk plays in our health. Dispatches: Breastfeeding Uncovered, Channel 4 2018
I was in southern California exploring a very different approach to adoption: open adoption in which hopeful parents pay tens of thousands to agencies to be matched with pregnant mums. The practice aims to eliminate secrecy and stigma, but it also comes with risks, and hinges on the hardest decision imaginable: letting go of a child. Louis Theroux’s Altered States s1e3: Adoption, BBC 2018
I was spending time with women dealing with mental illness brought on by having babies. For all its joys, new motherhood can be a time of extreme psychiatric difficulty. In homes and in specialised units I was with families and staff working to find a way back to recovery, exploring the wrenching challenges of caring for two people of the most vulnerable states in their lives. Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge, BBC 201
What happens in the first two years of life lays the foundation for everything to come. Babies: Their Wonderful World I: Becoming You, BBC 2018
Scientists think our personality is largely shaped by our basic temperament … To see basic temperament so early suggests it’s genetic, and it’s the starting point for who we become. ibid.
The more language we hear at an early age, the bigger our vocabulary latter on. ibid.
75% of toddlers use tablets and smartphones daily. ibid.
We’re investigating how we build relationships and develop the social skills we need for the rest of our lives. Babies: Their Wonderful World II: Becoming Social
How do we make our very earliest connections with others: do we have to learn or are we programmed upon from birth? ibid.
We’ll be testing when babies begin to read other people’s minds. ibid.
The final challenge is to see if they can work as a team. Babies: Their Wonderful World III: Becoming Independent
Crawling gives babies their first taste of true independence. But with it comes danger. ibid.
She’s have to get to grips with around 30,000 words. ibid.
Babies prefer to listen to Parentese … Parentese exaggerates the rhythm of words. ibid.
You’re not going to have your baby in a goddamned barn. Trailer Park Boys s9e3: Anointed in Liquor, Ricky to Trinity
The only crime of its nature in which a child [Sarang] had died as an indirect result of internet gaming. Love Child, Andrew Salmon re South Korean case, 2014
The genius of online gaming is that you can connect to thousands of players at the same time in the same internet space. ibid.
Just before the turn of the millennium, [South] Korea to the astonishment of the world found itself with probably the finest internet infrastructure on the planet. ibid.
The couple sold their virtual money to those who wanted to buy game items without investing the time it takes to earn them. Some call it Gold Farming, and as far as I could tell, this was the only way the couple earned income. ibid. reporter
Korea’s MMORPG games today enable users to decorate their avatars by charging the game cash, so called ‘game avatars’. ibid. young player
They would come in [Internet Bang] after dinner and play all night. They were so happy lost in this game together. ibid. reporter
They [parents of baby] had clearly fallen through the cracks of society. Rather a sad couple. They were unaware of what they had been doing. They had no information about raising children. ibid. Andrew Salmon
For some people who suffer from boredom, lose vigor, become depressed, video games provide the only comfort. They play games because they have nothing else to do. They barely eat and barely go out. They become like a hermit. ibid. psychiatrist