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From Baby Blues to Sleepless Nights, BIRTH DAYS Explores the Emotional Rollercoaster of Parenthood. New series Premieres on Life January 12, 2006

December 14, 2005

Montreal, December 14, 2005 : The new Cineflix series Birth Days, an in-depth documentary series about the emotionally charged first days and weeks at home with a newborn baby, premieres on Life on Thursday, January 12, 2006 at 9:30 pm ET.

The 26 half-hour episodes of Birth Days celebrate the magic of becoming a parent by following families on their journeys into parenthood, focusing on the dramatic first days of living with baby at home.

From baby blues, nursing woes, sleepless nights, colic, returning to work and interfering friends and grandparents to the unprecedented joy of bringing a baby into the world, Birth Days offers a real-life glimpse at what real people experience when they enter the baby zone. Through compelling personal stories, Birth Days explores the emotional, medical, economic and social aspects of parenting and the post-partum experience.

In episode one (January 12 at 9:30 pm), Paula and Leo are convinced that parenthood will not pose a threat to the lifestyle they’ve established in six years of marriage. But the minute baby daughter Lola is born, the couple head into an unknown and difficult world where their lives, and relationship, are tested.

Birth Days is Executive Produced by Simon Lloyd and Philip Whelan. Craig Colby is Series Producer. Leslie Merklinger is Director of Original Programming at Life Network. A Quebec-Ontario co-production, the series is produced by Cineflix and Nextfilm in association with Life Network and Living, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian Cable Industry: CTF-License Fee Program, the Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit Administered by SODEC, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, the Government of Ontario – The Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit.

Cineflix is a dynamic, independent television production and distribution company dedicated to entertaining audiences with innovative non-fiction programming. Its growing catalogue of over 200 hours of factual programming includes history, science, documentary and factual entertainment shows, viewed by audiences in more than 50 countries. Cineflix International, its sales and distribution unit headquartered in Dublin and with a sales office in London, oversees the worldwide distribution of the Cineflix catalogue and select third party programs.