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.

Yeah Janines husband/Alice's lover. Can't remember his name though, he wasent very nice.

michael

i had a big crush on him

Yes, Michael Moon!

the nun's are Anglican so would they have the same stance on "the pill" as Catholics??

Gosh that was a rough episode.

Even my husband cringed when she pulled on the cord.

I knew sister Mary Cynthia was going to get attacked.

I'm glad he was caught nice and quickly though

I assume so sally

What actually is the catholic stance? I know you are not supposed to use contraception, but is that because you are stopping a potential life or because you are interfering with god's will? Or are they getting upset because they think it will encourage women to sleep around?

Every sperm is sacred or so I learnt from Monty Python

Admit it you're now singing it aren't you

Ahh of course thank you

Fantastic acting by the actress who played Mary Cynthia.

Same bible I suppose. Funny not thought about Anglian finding contraception morally wrong before. Which is daft of me.

My goodness that was hard going!

SpuriouserAndSpuriouser

"In using contraception, the couple is trying to eliminate the rightful influence which God has over the events of procreation. If a couple uses contraception, they are, by their actions, saying to God that they are unwilling to conceive a child, even if it be God's will. Contraception is a sin, a serious sin, because contraception, by its very design, attempts to prevent God from taking His rightful role in the process of the procreation of God's own children."

So there you go.

i guess we will find out their stance next week

they must be against it though otherwise there would not be a story

I shouted at the TV when locum doc said 'a good tug on the cord'

There has been some powerful acting this series. I did a U-turn on my dislike for Cynthia tonight. That scene with SMJ was wonderful.

wow guess it's a no no then

I couldn't watch sum of it.. really hard going.

I went to school in the mid 1990s in London and we were given natural planning advice. Crazy when I look back.

The bath scene was very moving indeed, sniff.

Very good episode tonight and wonderful acting from Cynthia. Very hard to watch the mother desperately trying to save her daughter - thank god we live now.

I'm a little behind, but the scene in the bathroom between the nuns just made me sob

Oh should have said that's off a Catholic site. Protestant views were similar up to about 1930s (according to my last five minute research.

I did a U turn on Cynthia too tonight. Incredibly well done.

Yes to crossing my legs tightly at the afterbirth bit too!

I still can't like judgmental nun though, don't know her name, but even at the dinner table she was bitch face when the others were worried