During tonight's episode of BBC two's new show Yorkshire Midwives on Call, we got to learn the reason most women go into labour during the night.
As requests for home births have increased during the pandemic, the show follows a group of Bradford midwives helping people deliver their babies in the comfort of their own homes rather than a hospital.
In tonight's episode (April 26), we followed the story of three women, Jodie, Jules and Miriam.
We got to see each of them deliver healthy babies into the world, although with Jodie and Jules going into labour at night, viewers got to learn the reason why most labours kick-start during the night.
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Midwife Laura explained the reason why and it all comes down to your hormones being relaxed.
She said: "It's a common thought that the majority of people do end up giving birth at night. When you think of birth as a hormonal process, at night when things are quiet, calm and dark, that kind of relaxation allows the hormones that make labour start really get to work."
Agreeing with Laura, the camera cut away to midwife Clair saying the main reason births happen at night is because women are more relaxed.
However, with this being a common theme, Laura explained that it's added a bit of a 'chaotic element' to her family life with two children of her own.
She said: "It's just become part of our family life, sometimes the kids will get up in the morning and I'm out. That's the great thing about kids being a little bit older, they've got their phones so I can text them and wake up to a message saying 'I've gone out but I'll be back to pick you up from school'.
"It's a bit of a chaotic element to our lives because there's no planning it but we make it work."
In the episode, we got to see 18-year-old Jodie give birth to her second child with partner James at home with her mum and sisters present at the arrival of her baby boy.
Jodie feared that she'd have to be induced into hospital as her firstborn was underweight.
However, as it was lockdown during her first birth, she was only allowed one birthing partner and her mum wasn't allowed in the room.
Speaking about her experience, she said: "It was awful, I cried before I went in. I was on a video call to my mum but had to put it down as they told me I wasn't allowed to talk to hr on the phone which was awful because you need your mum in situations like that, I didn't have mine."
