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Call the midwife

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 20/01/2013 19:41

Tonight?

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MarthasHarbour · 05/02/2013 08:31

volcan are you talking about Jenny or Jane? If it is Jane (the new girl) then yes i can see what you mean about the reason for her quiet demeanour. Sad

it all perks up next week though - i saw on the trailer that funny vicar makes an appearance Grin

STILL loving Trixie!

MarthasHarbour · 05/02/2013 08:32

oh and i didnt catch the credits - who was that uber famous woman who played Matron - i know i am going to kick myself when you tell me as she has been in everything! i kept thinking Samantha Bond but it is not her...?

XBenedict · 05/02/2013 08:37

My husband went to school with Monica Dolan and so for the first time ever he watched CTM with me and quite enjoyed it.

"Am I the only stroppy person who wouldn't have bought the avocados after being so rudely mocked?"

No you're not I would have walked off!

Oodsigma · 05/02/2013 08:49

That guy who plays the vicar was a creepy policeman in Being Human. Not sure ill take him seriously as a vicar.

Saltire · 05/02/2013 08:54

Was Monica Dolan in an episode of Poirot? I watched on recently, "After the Funeral, and I am sure she was in it playing the role of Cora Abernethie and that of her housekeeper.

Saltire · 05/02/2013 08:55

the Poirot episode was called After the Funeral, not that I watched it after a funeral!

NotADragonOfSoup · 05/02/2013 08:57

The Matron was played by Lucy Robinson

diddl · 05/02/2013 10:14

Anyone else remember "Murder At the Gallp?

Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple & Flora Robson as Cora/Miss Gilcrest(?)?

MarthasHarbour · 05/02/2013 10:23

why OF COURSE MrsDragon she was Mrs Hurst in Pride and Prejudice - amongst many other things but that is where i recognised her from Grin

you are right about Monica Dolan in Poirot and millions of other things saltire

LaVolcan · 05/02/2013 12:20

If it is Jane (the new girl) then yes i can see what you mean about the reason for her quiet demeanour.

Sorry, got a bit confused - I meant Jane. I would agree Jenny is a bit wooden. My impression from the book was that midwifery wasn't a real vocation, whereas for the others it was, and being rather well to do but thrust into the East End, to me would explain why she is a bit reserved.

NutellaNutter · 05/02/2013 12:29

Marking my place on this thread. I LOVE this series.

Pixel · 05/02/2013 20:16

I'm betting that after the wedding it turns out that Jimmy's new wife isn't pregnant at all, so they'll have done the 'decent thing' for nothing.

diddl · 06/02/2013 07:01

I thought that Jenny had examined her, though?

diddl · 06/02/2013 07:31

Also, why was the Dr there when Maeve(?)/Mavis(?) was giving birth?

Was it because she was older?

NotADragonOfSoup · 06/02/2013 07:40

I think so, yes. They wanted her at the maternity home.

Maybe also because of her nutty sister and the fact she'd had no antenatal care.

It was Mave BTW. I thought it was Maeve throughout the programme, only found out it was Mave when googling to see if it was two actresses or one! I guess it was short for Mavis. :)

diddl · 06/02/2013 07:51

Yes, I thought Maeve & thought I also heard Mavis.

So I guess yes, Mave short for Mavis.

I had a feeling that homebirths were getting quite rare by 1959?

I guess it depended on where you lived.

Also the clinic in a local hall-would that really still have been happening?

AmberLeaf · 06/02/2013 10:12

Ive watched them over the last couple of days.

I too am wondering if Jimmys wife is really pregnant.

NotADragonOfSoup · 06/02/2013 10:18

MOf my brothers, the eldest was born in 1962 in a "cottage hospital" and the second at home in 1965 - routinely I think. I was born in hospital simply because I had to be induced early.

NotADragonOfSoup · 06/02/2013 10:19

pressed send too early :) I wonder if home birth was phased out for first births.

diddl · 06/02/2013 10:25

could be.

My sibling (PFB) was born in hospital and I was also due to mum having toxemia-as it was called then.

My husband(PFB) was born at the "cottage hospital"(same town) due to his mum being fine & having had no complications during pregnancy.

AmberLeaf · 06/02/2013 10:31

My brother was born at home in 1969, I would have been [in the 70s] but because my brother was so large and they were expecting me to be larger [I wasnt!] My mum had to go into hospital to have me.

My Mum said home birth was still considered the norm then.

eminemmerdale · 06/02/2013 10:57

My sister who wasa born in the mid fifties was born in hospital - a maternity unit run by nuns apparntly, which my mum says was awful - but I was then born at home in the early sixties, so it clearly changed in those few years for a while.

LaVolcan · 06/02/2013 14:37

I thought the big push towards hospital birth came during the sixties, but even before then, I think first timers were being encouraged to go to hospital. Having said that MIL had great difficulty getting a hospital birth for her third in 1959.

BertieBotts · 07/02/2013 22:24

My grandmother had three babies in hospital in the 1950s. She lived in Rugby, so not a big city - perhaps this made a difference?

Oodsigma · 08/02/2013 04:43

I think it was a poverty/ tradition thing in the EE. My mum was born in 51 by c-section so obviously a hospital birth. There's a lot of ref in the books to their ways being old fashioned