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.

Every week those damn onion cutting ninjas come into my house

Did anyone see that look Trixie shot!

I was born in 1966 and my mother didn't see me until I was three days old, it's not that unusual according to her.

She knows that Tom is keen on Barbara

Yes, Trixie seems less than pleased there

Oh my word I am still sobbing!

Typhoid next week, blimey

both me and dh was crying tonight.

I'd like to think factory owners were that nice but I honestly couldn't see a bloke giving away a load of profits because an ex-worker died

Did Trixie turn the vicar down though? He is v v handsome!!

Another sad one, was the dock worker getting leukaemia linked to the work he did?

The formula companies were and still are a disgrace in how they market themselves but thought it was a bit of an over reaction for Sister Evangeline to leave What happened to Chummy? I don't want any more characters to leave!

Chummy is at the maternity home isn't she?

WipsGlitter, I can't remember very accurately but I think Tom was looking at moving to a nice parish, and then it fell through, and he said he had to be willing to go where God called him to, even somewhere not very nice, and she wouldn't say that she would follow him anywhere. They broke up and she hit the bottle. I think Tom and Barbara are much better suited in terms of their life goals and values.

I'm 8 weeks pg and I don't know why I watch, I'm sobbing into big snotty tissues

Good lord, I must have been watching a different episode. I love this show like no other but that was the dullest episode by far!

Our new Sunday night family entertainment is predicting the clunky plot lines first.

I don't quite buy the reason Trixie and Tom broke up. I can't see her being happy as a vicar's wife in a naice parish. I thought she'd love somewhere deprived where she could go around doing good works and helping people with the nitty gritty!

DS (who never watches and was just passing through) said in the first five minutes that the young father was going to die. I do like the show but it is a bit predictable.

It is starting to have that Casualty-in-the-80s feel, isn't it?

I found it a bit difficult to trust Nurse Crane's fancy man from the start because it is the same actor who played Veronica's Mum's boyfriend in Shameless and he was in to dogging, nudity and peeing on her when they were in bed. It didn't last.

I thought the actor who played the boss at the docks was really bad, he couldn't act at all - I was actually cringing when he spoke!

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Whenever I see the actor who played the fancy man I just think 'Egg's dad'

It was a bit disappointing to see breast feeding portrayed negatively and the nun advocating it depicted as a bully. I seem to remember from the original books that the nuns discouraged formula because of the atrocious housing conditions their patients lived in and the expense of having to keep using it. Similar to the nestle thing really. It could have been an interesting look at how views and fashions changed and how formula helped some babies that would not have lived in the old days, rather than such a negative storyline.

Does anyone else think the actress playing Patsy is a bit like Joanna Lumley?

None of the (grown up) people in Poplar seem to have aged much do they?

Breast feeding wasn't portrayed negatively, nor was formula made out yo be amazing. There was plenty of talk of breast being easier and formula being expensive.

One woman struggled greatly and felt a failure. The nurse advocating breast feeding actually wasn't bullying her into breastfeeding but simply wasn't listening to what was being said to her. That was the story there wasn't it? She realised she needs to listen. I thought it was actually less breast v bottle than anything is these days. The nurses had the attitude that breast was the first port of call and if it didn't work then formula was the back up.

I did wonder why the hygiene aspects of using formula hadn't been covered. Such as access to hot clean water, sterilisers, bottles etc. Surely there was a huge cost implication for the families as well. I was born in 1976 and my mum said using formula was seen as well off thing to do. She was looked down in for breastfeeding by some women at toddler groups who assumed she was poor!!!