Five teen couples at various stages in their relationships, decide to take on the daunting task of living together as a couple, each in their own house and each assigned their own infant, provided by five other intrepid married couples, who believe in the concept enough to "lend" the teens their kids for 48 hours. The "real" parents are allowed to watch their temporary counterparts via monitors installed in another house, and "shadow nannies" are there at all times to observe what goes on. The nannies will step in only when absolutely necessary, and the "real" parents are also allowed to intervene if they think the teens need it.
In this episode, things are already off to a VERY interesting start when the girls are required to wear fake "pregnancy" bellies, which are supposed to duplicate exactly what it feels like when you're carrying a child to full-term. Many of the problems and hidden agendas in the teen's relationships are revealed as the girls have to wrestle with the discomfort and the mixed emotions that come with "being pregnant", and one girl even refuses to wear the appliance or even go to the birthing classes that all the couples have to attend, leaving her other half to go without her.
Then, the fun REALLY starts, as the couples are bombarded with baby supplies without being told how to use them or put them together, just before their "kids" arrive.
Then the parents drop the babies off, and Our Experiment begins. It's funny, appalling and amazing by turns how much they learn about babies, themselves and each other just in the first day.
What a great start to the series.
In this episode, things are already off to a VERY interesting start when the girls are required to wear fake "pregnancy" bellies, which are supposed to duplicate exactly what it feels like when you're carrying a child to full-term. Many of the problems and hidden agendas in the teen's relationships are revealed as the girls have to wrestle with the discomfort and the mixed emotions that come with "being pregnant", and one girl even refuses to wear the appliance or even go to the birthing classes that all the couples have to attend, leaving her other half to go without her.
Then, the fun REALLY starts, as the couples are bombarded with baby supplies without being told how to use them or put them together, just before their "kids" arrive.
Then the parents drop the babies off, and Our Experiment begins. It's funny, appalling and amazing by turns how much they learn about babies, themselves and each other just in the first day.
What a great start to the series.