Call the Midwife is back!

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

This Sunday (17th) at 8pm on BBC1.

I enjoyed the Christmas special - it was good to see Delia back, and I think there's going to be a nice romance with Tom and Barbara

The - it looks like we are going to get a thalidomide story.

It's true rivier They tore down nice old houses and put up revolting tower blocks, no thoughts about modernising the old places.

And now they're pulling the bloody blocks down ffs.

My mum was born in 1949 and had formula from about 4 months I think. Was called Oster milk maybe?

Ostermilk,yes, I remember that,and also National Dried Milk which came in big tins. Formula feeding was quite popular in the fifties and sixties, my mum said most mums did a few weeks breastfeeding if they wanted, then moved on to formula. She said by twelve months she started using ordinary bottled milk as it was cheaper!

I've caught up with last week's episode. Cried on and off through it! The poor guy with leukaemia, sister evangeline leaving (why?), inducing the baby, the poor woman not producing enough milk...her husband dying so quickly...

Wah. It's really hitting me this series that social change is happening so fast - women's clothes and fashions and hobbies - keep fit - are changing. The nuns are looking older and there are fewer. The unemployed men, the docks ... We are so lucky to live now.

Btw, what was the pink sand down at the docks? Did it give the husband leukaemia?

Guess no safety controls on what building or chemical stuff you unloaded.
Been bugging me about rooms. Huge house yet midwife share? Surely as a working woman on decent wage you would expect room on own. Though guess compared to peers they do have lots spare money for clothes going out make up and hair.
When the girlfriend nurse moves in bet they suddenly find another room. Don't get why sister evaingle went either rather OTT who's going fill the gap?

You're not supposed to question things like that! Midwives share, I guess, because watching one midwife per room wouldn't be as interesting as watching them gossiping together.

I wasn't convinced by the Sr Evangelina thing either but I guess it's been building for a while. I thought she should have flipped out over the babies she muddled up last series rather than this but hey.

Sister Evangelina has been feeling flustered for a while and a bit left behind by progress I think. Seems to me like this last episode led to a bit of a crisis of faith for her. Or maybe she just had other filming or something and had to vanish for a bit Chummy style......

And they have to share rooms 1) for gossiping reasons and 2) so that when the nurse moves in she and Patsy can share a room and it can lead to discovery and an episode about culture change regarding sexual orientation.

Chummy is buried safely under my patio and will never return. Peter is back tonight though. Big whoop. #sarcasm

Oh I liked\like Chummy, she was interesting character, but then I like Miranda and I can see why she's marmite!

She is a nice person in RL too.

Chummy is buried safely under my patio and will never return. Peter is back tonight though. Big whoop.

How bally mean of you!

oh nessa from corrie

Why Mrs Turner how could you be so uncharitable!

A little reference to the thalidomide babies again there.

I will kill Tom if he starts up with Barbara, really don't like it.

Been rewatching the previous series and I'd forgotten Patsy was blonde!

Oh, the OW.

Ah. That's going to be a problem for the teacher.

I'm sure a woman could still work when pregnant.

So, so horrible how constrained women were. That even then the thought of a married woman teaching while pregnant was unheard of.

They had better not have Patsy catch something terrible

And still..... Things NEVER change.

But that King before female teachers couldn't even be married let alone pregnant.

That King - not long!

Single women are still side lined,
Women are pressured into things we don't want to do.

The Marriage Bar wasn't lifted in Ireland until 1973

Yes I think by then pregnant women could work in other places but not in front of impressionable children who might ask questions.