First Comes Love

“First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage”. For filmmaker Nina Davenport, that old playground song didn’t go as planned. Single at age forty-one, she decides to have a baby on her own, never minding the odds stacked against her or the extra hurdles of living in New York City. Think of a real-life Girls, only with more grown-up problems. In her quest for motherhood, Davenport enlists her best friend Amy as a birth partner and her gay friend Eric as a sperm donor. While pregnant, she winds up dating film critic John Anderson, while struggling to cope with the recent death of her mother. The process of baby-making affects all their lives profoundly. The film taps into the zeitgeist topic of how the modern family is being re-imagined in the early 21st Century. Davenport is unflinching at exposing herself and refreshingly frank and funny about the trials and tribulations of getting pregnant, giving birth and raising a child. After this, you’ll want to thank your mother!