Call the Midwife, I love Sunday night telly!!

[BrightnessFalls]

well, I will do for the next six weeks

mirage what a terribly sad story.

I wondered if Birdsong would make it onto the List of Loathing. GOd, it was appalling. And I quite liked the booked. ER is the worst actor I've seen in a very long time. The thousand-yard stare of someone with a screw loose and the mouth of a guppy fish. Bleurgh.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! I've just read the Eddie 'might as well scrawl his lines on a wooden chair and be done with it' Redmayne is going to play Marius in the big-screen adapation of Les Mis

I thought Eddie Redmayne was very good at staring into middle distance, not speaking and looking good in WW1 battledress. As an actor he was a bit of a let down. Keep him away from Victor Hugo please.

When the midwifes were measuring the ladies bump in last nights episode they said"36 cm"I may be wrong but surley they didn't work in cm then.

It is a brilliant series though,very true to the book.

that should be midwives obviously

I think they said measuring 36 weeks.
Cos then they said 'you are due in a month'

I thought they said 36cm so that's 36 weeks,you are due in a month.

I've still got it on the sky box so I'l have to watch it again

They definitely said '36cm' and I thought the same - surely they didn't use cm then. I wonder when they did switch to metric measurements?

I also heard 36cms & thought it sounded odd.

Have to say though 14inches=36 wks doesn´t sound so good!

Saw the book in my local tesco sounds like its worth a read. Been enjoying the tv version but think i'll read the book instead of watching the rest

It is real, they are true stories........

It is amazing! I am enjoying sunday night telly! Birdsongs not as good as i expected though :(

Have just caught up on all of the episodes together - brilliant television!! Nice to watch when the husband isn't around!!

Oops!! Someone slipped up there then 36 cms, I went to school in the 60's and the 70's and we weren't using cms then - it would have been inches or should have been!! We didn't change over until we entered the common market if I remember correctly and then only gradually!! It was good old feet and inches!! But it still doesn't stop it being good telly!!

AGH!! Just watched last night's episode - got to the end - enough said!!

Marge2 - I have the same problem here with the clash with Top Gear, even though we have Sky+, because I want to watch Dancing on Ice, and Top Gear and Call the Midwife, and the first one overlaps the other two - but luckily I found Top Gear repeated twice on BBC2 during the week (I'm sorry I can't remember the times, off the top of my head, but think it was Thursday and Saturday).

HTH

I like the programme, and I originally decided to watch it because my nana was a district nurse around the same time (Midlands, not London, though) and although she wasn't a midwife, she did help to deliver some babies. I wanted to see the kind of thing Nana would have done. She died when I was 5.5 so I never got the chance to talk to her about her life.

Centimetres were not a new invention though . . . they existed - it's probable - if they were used then for obstetric reasons - that they were easy to remember because they tied in nicely with what they measured.

Eg number of cm of fundal height = number of weeks gestation
10cm dilation = ready to push
And my old (Gordon Bourne anyone?) pregnancy book says that a woman who is 9 month pregnant measures exactly a metre round the waist. I think I did each time.

Yes I agree that it´s possible that cms were used by midwives-although possible that they didn´t "announce" 36cms therefore 36wks?

I don't think they'd have made a mistake on a key detail like that; as BalloonSlayer suggests, midwives were probably using them when everyone else in the country was using feet and inches.

come to think of it my Dad used to work in the optical trade and was using mm before they became common place.

I'm a latecomer to the series and, having read one of the books, I have been watching all 3 episodes on iPlayer today. I loved it, unlike that drivel Birdsong. I persevered with episode 1 last week, but found all the staring into eyes so boring.

I loved your description of Eddie Redmayne TheScarletPimpernel

Love it! My nan lent me the book while I was pregnant, but suggested I may want to wait until I had the baby before I read it :-) Haven't read it yet, and am going to wait until I have watched the series...

MASSIVE Miranda fan and am LOVING her in it!!!!

I wasn't too bad in this one until the very end, it's the music that gets me. When 'You're Just in Love' started as they were sitting on the bench in the graveyard, it set me off.

I thought Jimmy was very handsome.

(Oh please say that's not true about Les Mis! I can't picture Marius as anybody other than Michael Ball really. I was a bit unsure about Anne Hathaway, not to mention Taylor Swift. I'll just have to wait and see I suppose. Think Helena B-C will be good as Mme Thenadier though.)