Is there a Call the Midwife thread?

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The poor little boy

My friend was born at home in 1967 and immediately after her delivery her dad went into the bedroom and lit celebratory cigs for himself, his wife and the midwife. All 3 puffed away in the same room as my friend who was only a few minutes old

She's got a good memory, your friend

smoking,when i had my twins i hospital 1999 there was a smoking room on the ward for mothers who smoked

wasnt there 7yrs later so between the dated it was stopped

that was only 15yrs ago

Last week the new midwife even commented on it so it must surely be a future story line

I worked in a hospital with a smoking room. I left in2005 and it was on its way out... A room in a hospital designated for smoking!

My gran said she was given a cigarette by the midwife during her first labour to calm her down .

Interesting thread but please can someone explain how they produce those newborns or very young babies from under the patient's blankets !! Or am I being stupid?

Must be something to do with computers I suppose.

When I was a teenager in 1960 almost everyone smoked and you were considered a bit "square" (that was the saying then!) if you didn't smoke. I can remember smoking at work all the time and the smoke rising up in the cinema........suppose it showed up more in the dark. I still find it a bit shocking now when I see that GP in CTM smoking and giving his wife a quick puff last week!

Nina in your earlier post you said, I haven't read all the post... and asked that question immediately after the issue of the baby actors had just been discussed. It just looks a bit rude.

Nina you are getting all shouty. Your questions are clearly answered on the thread. You don't have to scroll back far

Well it's not that difficult to work out, they stop filming, put baby under blanket, start filming again and hey presto the baby appears as if by magic! The ones where it's half out they probably use a realistic doll. And if you watch they will often do a quick angle change just before the baby appears so you don't notice any discrepancy in the blankets etc.

OMG - I am really surprised that I'm being accused of being rude and shouty - had no idea I was coming across like that and the bold was just cus I thought the discussion was on smoking and I've just been wondering about those babies. I did say I was probably being stupid.

Thank you Bertie - still wondering about why parents allow their newborns to be used in this way, but I'd better not ask as I may be accused of being rude again! OK I will read the thread.

i dont think the babies look very new born

I seem to remember he gave her a puff of his cigarette when she was a nun (although I don't know if that's better or worse!).

You're right, Horace, in the last episode I noticed one of the "newborns" was eye-wateringly large, surprisingly clean and unusually placid.

As I said earlier, all the babies are,apparently, less than10 days old.

the bold was just cus I thought the discussion was on smoking and I've just been wondering about those babies.

The babies that I talked about roughly 5 posts before the one where you first asked?

"Shouting" on a light-hearted thread isn't so much of a problem to me.

But you what you pretty much did was say, "I can't be arsed to read what you've all written, but I want you to immediately answer my question even though it may already have been discussed".

Yes, that is how it came across to me too. Nina, it's often worth scrolling back if you have a pressing question, even if you didn't read everything in your haste to post the first time.

Dr Turner will not get lung cancer. He just won't. Absolutely not. It's not allowed.

And I keep expecting Nurse Crane to come in sniffing and saying "What have you been cooking, food?" or "We're in Tunstall now. Folk aren't as giddy as they are in Northwich"

Dear god - I very rarely come on these sorts of threads but have been on MN for many years now, and post on the MH threads and sometimes Relationships or Fostering and Adoption, and I can't remember ever being called rude or shouty! Sometimes I know that on those threads I might be being a bit too direct but I always try to empathise with people, so am quite genuinely shocked to be criticised on this thread - I truly am. I thought it was a light hearted thread so my post was meant to be in that vein (sp?) like "oh come on please tell me about those babies" and so I am sorry - I take the point that if the babies had just been discussed it was daft of me to ask that Q again. I'll certainly steer clear of these light hearted threads in future!

Nana don't worry! :) Sometimes it's hard to tell tone online and people can take things the wrong way. Of course it's OK to ask questions and on a fast moving thread it's easy to miss posts. (Although to point you in the direction of the second question, which I think is what people were talking about - there was an article I think in the Telegraph last year about it. I am sure that would be easy to pull up on google.)

I wouldn't worry too much Nina I think as Bertie said it can be easy to misread someones tone on a thread. This is a light hearted thread about Call the Midwife so don't be offended

Fwiw I think they have done a fairly good job of using babies that at least look like new borns, on some shows the babies 'come out' and are obviously about 3 months old

I suppose also that the babies have to be cleaned up before going on telly (it is a bit unrealistic of course). Maybe the producers thought they should draw the line at leaving the blood and gore on them (this is a show that goes out before 9 p.m.).

Nana don't take it to heart it's just t'internet; interesting but not important !!