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Daffodilly · 15/01/2014 21:47

I'm sure after the Christmas special they said a new series would be starting in the New Year. So where is it?? [impatient]

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DMCWelshCakes · 02/03/2014 21:12

I really thought I was going to get through it without crying this week. Then the father and daughter came to visit the hospital. I'm a snotty crying mess again! Every week they get me. This episode did hit a lot of MH triggers for me though.

LaVolcan · 02/03/2014 21:16

Well, a health problem for Dr Turner, as we thought, but certainly not the one I expected. Wonder if that will scupper their chances for the adoption?

Wonder where Jenny Lee is off too?

Clawdy · 02/03/2014 21:24

Is she not just returning to her old job?

shouldnthavesaid · 02/03/2014 21:59

I've only just put it on but I'm desperate to find out what's happened with Dr Turner? Hope it's nothing too awful!

Hulababy · 02/03/2014 22:08

They didn't look too happy reading the adoption company letter in next weeks trailer so assuming it's not good news.

The others knew she was coming back so don't see how the news would be that. Something else?

Trumpton · 02/03/2014 22:23

My grandmother had my mother in 1922 , she suffered from post puerperal psychosis . So hard to watch . Gran was finally sectioned in 1923 when mum was 11 years old .
My grandfather divorced her after 7 years but gran ( with new drugs) recovered enough to contact him in about 1945 . I have both her letter to him and his reply to her explaining that he had remarried and that he wished her all the best. She remained in hospital until her death in 1973.
My mother visited her regularly until gran died.
In fact mum qualified as a psychiatric nurse after her own divorce in 1971 and gained a job at the hospital her mother was in only for gran to die before she took her post up.
Fabulous ladies both of them.

WaitMonkey · 02/03/2014 22:24

I've not watched it yet, but desperate to know what Dr.Turner's medical problem is. Did it come out in tonight's episode ?

shouldnthavesaid · 02/03/2014 22:30

We think my gt gt Gran had it too, she was admitted to psychiatric care some time between 1912 and 1924. She died in the same hospital in 1961 unaware of who she was never mind the fact that she had 6 children.

shouldnthavesaid · 02/03/2014 22:41

Oh God. And she's bloody arguing with him! Give the man a hug or something!

LittleBearPad · 02/03/2014 23:00

I think Dr Turner had PTSD or something similar. It was referred to as war neurosis so the ww2 equivalent of shell shock I assume. Being a medical officer in ww2 must have been very hard.

BertieBotts · 02/03/2014 23:01

PP storyline was awful. So sad :( very shocking too - it's treated with drugs now I think?

ppeatfruit · 03/03/2014 08:53

I thought the ep. was even more interesting than usual in the way it showed how the hospitals were so uncaring with their 'sticking to the rules'. I've heard so many sad stories of small Dcs left in hospitals with very few visits from their parents.

The fact that we now can be with our L.Os in hospital is a REAL advance.

That's a terrible story shouldnt Sad

The 'stiff upper lip' philosophy was very real in those days too LittleBear

hackmum · 03/03/2014 09:16

i agree, ppeatfruit, the scenes set in the hospital were really sad - all that business about separating antenatal care from postnatal care, so Jenny couldn't even find out what had happened to her patients, and separating babies from their mothers by putting them in a nursery.

Mind you, I did love the nurses' outfits. They were fab.

ppeatfruit · 03/03/2014 10:12

Yes i thought that Jenny looked fantastic in hers! You could see how intimidating the matrons were too!

sisyphusisalive · 03/03/2014 10:21

all a bit too close to home this week what with the mh and chummy's dm storylines

alemci · 03/03/2014 12:53

dunno I longed for my babies to go into the nursery at night so I could get some sleep.

ppeatfruit · 03/03/2014 12:58

I love the actress who plays chummy's dm Cheryl Campbell isn't it? They certainly have got some very good older actresses in this.

janesnowdon1 · 03/03/2014 13:41

Cheryl Campbell is amazing - she played Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth on the BBC (about WW1) when I was a teen and she was just heartbreaking.

ppeatfruit · 03/03/2014 13:59

Yes and she was great in 'Pennies from Heaven' try and see if you haven't done so janesnowdon1.

DinoSnores · 03/03/2014 14:04

bertie, puerperal psychosis is still treated with drugs and sometimes ECT.

I thought the whole story was treated really sensitively given the time period they are showing, although it was very sad that mothers were taken away from their babies.

I also loved the uniforms and just how smart they and the beds were! Ah, for the days of matron!

ppeatfruit · 03/03/2014 14:05

I couldn't bear the idea of being apart from my LOs in hospital i wouldn't 've slept anyway. alemci

When I was newborn in 1951 the nurses put me in the airing cupboard because my crying was keeping the other babies awake; Hmm they didn't believe in breast feeding on demand in those days Sad

MrsSippie · 03/03/2014 14:29

I've heard so many sad stories of small Dcs left in hospitals with very few visits from their parents

I had many operations from the age of 2 onwards (1966) My mother was never allowed near me until visiting hours. Even if I was going down to theatre and it was outside of prescribed hours, I had to wait on my own :(

One of my most vivid memories is of waking up after an operation when I was about 6 I guess and seeing her sitting outside the ward waiting for 4 O clock or whatever time it was, crying my eyes out and being told to 'stop it you silly little girl' by the vile matron :( Horrible :(

When ds was rushed into hospital aged one with pneumonia in 2001, I was amazed to be allowed not only to be with him all day but to SLEEP there!!

ppeatfruit · 03/03/2014 15:00

Yes Sad MrsSippie I reckon things have improved a lot in that respect

The matrons may have looked smart but a lot of them had no hearts and were 'jobsworths'.

MrsSippie · 03/03/2014 15:18

They were, to a woman, vile (the ones I recall anyway!)

ppeatfruit · 03/03/2014 17:13

Isn't that awful giving our sex a bad name? Sad Angry

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