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Call the midwife- brand new series starts tonight!!

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Soubriquet · 22/01/2017 10:23

At 8pm

Who's ready for it?!

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Soubriquet · 12/02/2017 21:00

I didn't cry this week!

Amazing really

I felt so sorry for Dot

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IrenetheQuaint · 12/02/2017 21:00

They really bottled the adoption storyline - one minute the mother has no money and has no alternative to giving the baby away, then she decides she can't and all is fine Hmm

KenDoddsDadsDog · 12/02/2017 21:01

There was family allowance but not sure if it was enough to survive.

DMCWelshCakes · 12/02/2017 21:01
Sad

That was hard going.

DesolateWaist · 12/02/2017 21:01

I spent most of this episode trying not to cry.
The still birth was harrowing.

DesolateWaist · 12/02/2017 21:03

I thought that too Irene. She was evicted, why was she still there.

Saucery · 12/02/2017 21:04

I'm not sure the implication that the orphanage route was fine. Probably still not fine with the mothers who had give their babies away, just more palatable for the Dots who didn't have to witness the enormous emotional cost and all that pesky paperwork already done for them.

BubbleWrapQueen · 12/02/2017 21:04

Did the BIL write a cheque to her landlord so she could stay, when she was going to give them the baby? I remember him saying something about remembering the landlord from school or similar.

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Soubriquet · 12/02/2017 21:06

Yes the Man wrote a cheque for the baby

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zukiecat · 12/02/2017 21:06

I guess Dot and her husband paid all the rent arrears and any other outstanding bills, and that was the agreement

I thought they were going to be horrible, and demand everything back, but I ended up feeling sorry for them

I am imagining them adopting a baby a year later

ScaryMonstersandSuperCreeps · 12/02/2017 21:11

Too many memories for me I sobbed so much!! My DS1 was born at 26 weeks and lived for two hourse and then with my DS2 I had bedrest due to pre-eclampsia. I didn't try to have any more as I thought I had had my luck delivering DS2 two weeks early at 5lb 10 Oz!

pinkrocker · 12/02/2017 21:13

I had a forceps delivery, like that, with the doctor's foot bracing himself on the bed too. I retched watching that, brought it all back, having a 10lb 10oz baby who was well and truly stuck! (DD is now 11Smile)
Great acting and great episode!

IrenetheQuaint · 12/02/2017 21:17

Yes, I got that the would-be adoptive father paid off the arrears and the next month's rent or whatever, but I thought that the problem was not just Marnie's rent arrears but her lack of income generally. It would have been more convincing if the adoption had gone ahead, but they do love a happy ending.

Ipitythescale · 12/02/2017 21:17

That was emotional. Surprised to see Shelagh released from hospital- would she just be put on bed rest at home or now they've heard the heartbeat do they just assume it should be ok, off you pop love?

DesolateWaist · 12/02/2017 21:23

Very hard time with that one. Especially as I found my scan pictures today.

Juveniledelinquent · 12/02/2017 21:27

Even DH had a cry at this one.

PatsyMount · 12/02/2017 21:37

I wept all through this.

When the firm but fair ward matron said after the stillbirth 'There's will be no more pain' I said out loud 'that is not true'. The pain never goes. I now have 2 beautiful DS but will always feel for our 'middle' DS who we lost at 21 weeks.

I was also puzzled as to how Marnie could carry on with no financial support. But I love a good drama and needed some kind of a happy ending Smile

Anyway, thrilled to see the barmaid back as the new nurse Smile I knew SR Julienne would save the day!

Tigresswoods · 12/02/2017 22:19

They got me when the woman in the bed next to Shelagh said she had a fantasy about the two of them running into each other in a year or two when they both have babies.

DS is nearly 7 but I remember the pain of thinking I'd never be a mum

Clawdy · 12/02/2017 22:42

Am I the only one who had more sympathy for the childless sister than the glum mother? Maybe it was the acting.

Fedupofallthemud · 12/02/2017 23:03

Did anybody else wonder if the baby really was stillborn? I wondered if it was maybe showing signs of life- she was 6 months so could have survived for a short time anyway. Lots of furtive looks between Sister and nurse etc then quickly taking poor wee thing away. So cruel that mums were not allowed to see their babies at that time
Very sad episode again. I'm still enjoying it I have to say and looking forward to seeing how the new nurse/midwife gets on (presume if she was an army nurse she will need to train as midwife whilst working as district nurse.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 12/02/2017 23:09

I think that, at that time it was thought it was better for the mother not to see a still born baby, because it would cause them even more pain, and that's why the nurse was told to take the baby away.

wobblywonderwoman · 12/02/2017 23:13

Harrowing but brilliant episode. Absolutely love the actress who played the mother who nearly gave up her baby and the senior midwife in the hospital.

Akire · 12/02/2017 23:15

I thought that too, but at 24 weeks they would have not had techonolgy to do much to support such small babies so perhaps just considered better let them die. In same way a few years previous disabled children were just left in sluce room by open window.

I'm suprised that don't show some district nursing like they used too, I know it's all the midwife but they used show what things were like for older people too.

Love way doctor and son got tipsy at home, ace.

TreeTop7 · 12/02/2017 23:17

I think the viewer was supposed to rejoice for Marnie. Also, the implication at the end was that Dot's husband had come round to the idea of adopting via an agency, so happily Dot was going to be a mum. However, despite the obvious love in that grim flat, I felt a bit sorry for baby Andrew and the loss of the more comfortable future he could have had.

Great acting all-round.

Interesting to note that Marnie needed her husband's permission to open a bank account. I remember hearing that my great-aunt (unmarried) couldn't get a mortgage without her father's sign-off even though she was out-earning him at that stage.

AnneEyhtMeyer · 12/02/2017 23:30

I was disappointed with tonight's. Once again Dr Turner shoe-horned in.

What's wrong with Trixie? Has she got some tropical disease?