Australian Story 1996 one on netflix: 19x40

How I Met Your Father

This week’s program reveals the improbable saga of the making of a very modern family. It’s a narrative that ‘starts at the end – and ends at the beginning’. Advertising executive Aminah Hart lost two baby boys as a result of a genetic disorder passed from mother to son. Anonymous sperm donation and IVF offered a last chance to have a healthy child. Of five possible donors one stood out, a cattle breeder from Phillip Island who, crucially, described himself as ‘happy and healthy’. When blue eyed blonde baby Leila arrived two years ago, events took a most unexpected turn…