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.

Mud, your Daughter is probably only 3 years younger than the mother, whose placenta was retained.

I was the first of my mums children to be born in hospital. She was given a dose of pethedine, became extremely dozy and was roused to told she had another girl (no four - though she did have two sons also). Unfortunately, I was admitted to scbu for six weeks because of breathing difficulties.

That was heavy going

For interest, I have replaced many a uterus - in sheep. Almost always because they carry on pushing too hard after the lamb and they just pop out. It's an arse of a job, like trying to thread a sausage through a needle.
In sheep, we can usually do it by raising the back end, cleaning the whole thing and then just(!) pushing it back, making sure that both horns of the uterus go fully in. There's then a contraption like a plastic T shape that you put in, with the long end in the vagina and the short ends out, tied to the wool which you can put in to keep it in.

In some cases, you need to vet to stitch it in if it keeps coming out.

Just a bit of trivia!

That's fascinating OhShutUp I'm a bit confused but don't worry

What's confusing ppeat?

ohshutup why thank you for that description - whilst i was enjoying my lunch

Thanks ohshutup, I've often seen ewes with string 'holding their insides in' now I know I wasn't inventing the reason for the string. I LOVE mother sheep. I've seen a couple of lambs born (from a distance) and I find it very awe inspiring. Of course the farmer thinks I am a sentimental twat. But I can't help it. They seem so KNOWING.

On the general discussion of uterine inversion, do the whole Fallopian tubes and ovaries come out too?

It would be pretty impossible for the ovaries and tubes to come out too, FATE, because they sit outside the uterus Inversion means inside out, so you have to imagine a bag - or in this case the uterus - being pulled inside out and down and out through the vagina. Fabulous mental image I know...

I was just trying to eat my lunch during that particular scene too

But the fallopian tubes are connected to the outside of the uterus, and the ovaries connected to the fallopian tubes.

So do the fallopian tubes stretch during a uterine inversion, but stay anchored in place? Or do they snap?

I'm guessing they get pulled down but stay attached?

Yep, it's like an inside out bag, so the outside of what you see hanging out of the sheep is the womb lining. I've never seen the Fallopian tubes or ovaries so I can only assume they stay inside, or they're inside the inverted uterus?

Inside the inverted uterus is how I imagine it, yes.

(NB: I am not a HCP, just a layperson who loves medial stuff!).

These are two prolapses - the smaller one is just starting, and the lamb will still be in there. These can be tricky to lamb, and they need to be pushed back in and have a harness on to keep it in until she lambs.

The bigger one is the tidiest example of a prolapse after lambing that I could find.

Sweet Jesus. Why did I click?

WHY God, WHY?

Sorry! I don't think that's ewww at all though!

Well that's cleared up my confusion !

She looks like she has a red armadillo hanging out her nethers.

Well, now I know why the student MW who was abandoned with me after my first birth wasn't pulling on the cord too hard when my body was refusing to deliver my placenta! at that scene. I love Trixie when she's in MW mode, though.

I don't mind the Turner's too much, but it seems like the show is all about them at the moment. They are neither nuns nor MWs! More Sister Monica Joan please

How many episodes left? I don't know if the Patsy and Delia reveal will happen before the end of the series or if they will save it for Christmas perhaps.

Are the Turners all on Mdma? All the grinning, all the time!

"Sorry! I don't think that's ewww at all though!"

Nice sheep pun

I didn't even know this was a thing until yesterday, and now I know more about sheep prolapses than I probably will ever need to know I love MN!

Most women empty their bowels when giving birth. You used to be given an enema, to avoid this.

Are the Turners all on Mdma?

I must admit, I don't find them particularly interesting characters. Is this "our idyllic life" thing just a precursor to some catastrophe with the doctor's health?

I think it will be Shelia. They've been laying it on thick with the doctors smoking for 2/3 years now, but I think it's all been a red herring. Like what others said up thread with the whole 2 cigarettes a day thing. And didn't she have TB or something the other year?