Call the midwife

[JazzAnnNonMouse]

Tonight?

Totally and utterly sobbed tonight. Just so so sad.

Ugh very personal for my family too can't say any more without outing myself.

'When he said ' I'm leaving now' to the baby. It reminded me so much of when my Mum died and she said to her sisters ' I don't think I'm going to make it this time' - she was so calm and brave.

Just finished watching and have sobbed out loud again the death bed scene was very touching!

In the book doesn't she have a daughter and all is happy until the daughter unexpectedly also dies of tb?

Oh dear. Just watched last weeks and this weeks. Emotional wreak!

On an unemotinal tangent, there was a trailer for some new series just after, my recording cut off just before they said what it was. Anyone shed any light?

Yes JazzAnnNonMouse, that's right - very bleak. Writers obviously decided to shove the TB onto poor old Sister Bernadette instead...

Jazz - yes, I was just mentioning this on another thread about CTM in AIBU. It was because Julia was a carrier of TB that her siblings and child all died of it.

I'm sure Sister Bernadette will get better and find true love with the doctor (who's apparently married to the scriptwriter in real life). I can't imagine that they will kill her off, given all the misery there already is in the series!

hackmum I haven't read the books but surely there's no way a nun would leave to go off with a married man!
I was also blubbing last night 'cos my DD1 was born in the same hospital that my GD was dying in and I took her to see him just before he died and he cried

Can't believe it was the first time I watched it last night. Beautifully filmed. I'd no idea - was expecting it just to be a drama about delivering babies. Pleasantly surprised.

I thought the Doctor was a widower?

animation go back and watch the others. Fantastic filming/story/actors but very emotional.

Oh you could be right Oodsigma I might have missed the bit when it was mentioned, but he does wear a very obvious wedding ring (which was not the norm for men in the 50s BTW

I don't know if it was mentioned but the little boy is often at work with him or comes to him & if they're setting up the love interest thing I doubt she would go for a married man.

Yes Oodsigma I will try and go back and watch the others. What a gem.

Didn't Sister Bernadette have some crisis of vocation and leave in the books?

Yes the doctor is a widower.

Just watched it on iplayer.

Was the publicans daughter Julia played by Saffron Burrows? maybe not but I thought it looked a bit like her.

OOh everything's clear for a nun and doctor wedding then ?

Yes to Lavolcon

I hope sister Bernadette and the doctor do get married, once she is well of course [hopes she doesn't die!]

In the books, I think Sister Bernardette leaves the Anglican Church when women priests come in - I'll have to dig out my copy.

The doctor is definitely a widower.

She had a crisis of faith though earlier didn't she?

Ahhh, did she, I'd forgotten. Need to read it all again!

At one time a lot of nuns would have had to leave the convent after having an illness like TB as they would no longer be strong enough for the spartan way of life (well, Catholic nuns anyway). Maybe this will give Sr Bernadette a way of leaving the convent with a clear conscience and marrying the doctor.

Oh, that's so sad, I didn't know that. Obviously for Sister B it would be a get-out, but imagine being a nun who had to leave against your wishes.

Why didn't they just let them stay but spare them the night-time prayers or something?

The Catholic convent life (from the Book of Hours), includes going to bed at 9 or 10p.m. and getting up at 2 or 3a.m. to pray etc. (I'm not sure if the Anglicans are the same) but it doesn't seem a very healthy one IMO. Sister B. 'd far better off marrying the doc.