Baby Fever season 2 is the second season of the Danish romantic dramedy starring Josephine Park. It's set to premiere on the Netflix streaming service on August 22, 2024.
The story stars Josephine as the fertility doctor Nana, who, in a drunken act of indiscretion, unwittingly inseminates herself with the sperm of her ex-boyfriend, Mathias. This unexpected pregnancy causes Nana to reevaluate her life and her past relationship.
Baby Fever's first season was released on Netflix on June 8, 2022. When the season ended, Nana went on maternity leave after giving birth to her baby.
Baby Fever season 2 begins with her telling her boss Helle that she wants to go back to work, necessitating the need for a babysitter. Nana finds one in her own mother, the eccentric singer Lisa LeCour.
Furthermore, Nana has yet to reveal to Mathias that he's the father of her child, even as he plans to start a life with a new girlfriend in Guatemala.
Baby Fever season 2 cast and characters
The main and recurring cast of Baby Fever season 2 is as follows:
- Josephine Park as Nana
- Simon Sears as Mathias
- Olivia Joof Lewerissa as Simone
- Charlotte Munck as Helle
- Mikael Birkkjær as Niels-Anders
- Tammi Øst as Lise Lacour
- Jesper Ole Feit Andersen as Nye Anton
- Emil Prenter as Flot Gys
- Oscar Töringe as Hampus
- Morten Jørgensen as Carsten
- Martha Egegaard Juul as the baby
- Thomas Levin as Jannick
- Trisha Fernández as Lucia
Baby Fever season 2 deals with the challenges of motherhood
With her pregnancy behind her, Nana struggles to balance her duties as a new mother, with her workaholic nature. On the baby front, Nana is forced to look for a babysitter, which leads to an awkward family reunion when her eccentric mother, Lisa Lacour, offers her help.
On the work front, Dovi, the clinic she works at, hires a new doctor named Hampus, who seems like the ideal employee poised to steal her thunder.
Furthermore, Nana is continuing to have an uncomfortable dynamic with her ex-boyfriend Mathias. Despite knowing that telling him the truth would be the right thing to do, she struggles to spit it out, leading to an awkward tension between the two.
Things get even more tense as he reveals he's starting a new life in Guatemala, with his new girlfriend Lucia. Nana now has to wrestle with the dilemma of potentially upending his new life with the truth about his biological child.
With Nana struggling to juggle between her duties as a mother, her obsession with work and the awkward relationship dynamics she finds herself in, how will she navigate this new, treacherous stage of her life?
Baby Fever season 2 is produced by Apple Tree Productions
Apple Tree Productions is a Danish company founded by Lars Hermann and Piv Bernth in 2017 and is partnered with ITV Studios in its native Denmark. Its target audience is Danish and Nordic viewers, but distributors like Netflix are broadcasting shows like Baby Fever season 2 internationally.
Aside from Baby Fever, Apple Tree Productions has also released other internationally acclaimed titles. These include Blackwater, which won the Best Series Award in International Panorama, Chorus Girls, who's Marie Reuther won the Golden Nymph Award for Best Actress, Equinox and One of the Boys.
Baby Fever season 2 was officially confirmed on the social media channels of Netflix Nordic. The upcoming season of this romantic comedy-drama about a ferility doctor's unexpected pregnancy will premiere in all regions on August 22, 2024.