Call The Midwife - **Spoiler Alert** Title edited by MNHQ

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Last thread is full. So a last thread to finish the series ...

Another one sat with a box of tissues for the whole episode. Loved it when Nurse Crane invited Nurse Turner into the kitchen to discuss "a patient that wasn't doing as she was told"

knockmedown next series will start with a Christmas Special and continue from 4th week January 2018. Long time to wait :(

I know fuck all about nuns.
Are all nuns catholic? Can you be a church in England nun and therefore be ok about contraception? (The CofE is ok about contraception isn't it?)

Am I the only one wondering how a tracheostomy would help a pulmonary embolism?

I agree mrsmulder and esp risky on blood thinners too...but I suppose they were still working these things out back then.
I'm a bit surprised so many people didn't know of connection with pill and blood clots, people do still die due to this and anyone on the pill should have been told about the risks. However always worth remembering that risk of blood clots is higher when pregnant than when on pill iyswim.
Also doses were much higher when pill first came out so would have been a lot riskier.

I think there are Church of England nuns.

Tom in that vest.........

I loved Barbara's dress, simple and gorgeous

I held the tears off til Reggie returned, hope we see more of him in the new series

I loved the Carousel at the end, it was lovely

They are cofe nuns and whilst the cofe are more relaxed about contraception now I thought they were more conservative in the past- I might be wrong though!

(I also thought women did need permission from their husbands when the pill first came out?)

Willma was very sad As said above, blood clots\thrombosis is a known risk.Isn't that why pill takers have their blood pressure taken regularly?.
CTM is now up to the year I was born but it still seems another world even though I grew up in Greater London.

The pill was a lot stronger in the 60s, it had a third more estrogen than modern pills.

I loved it but did seem rushed. Loved Dr being there when his baby was born.

Think Trixie from wealthy family so that's why so much money. But they all clubbed in for a lot of money when she had very little??

Loved carousel but bit twee all waving everyone going round and round. Can't believe have to wait so long for next one. Booooooo

Fantastic episode but a total sob-fest.

So many emotional moments - Wilma dying, Nurse Crane and Barbara, Reggie, Barbara and her dad - 'you find joy in simple things'.... the carousel that Tom arranged and finally the reappearance of Patsy. Brilliant episode.

Did anyone else notice - when Wilma went to get the pill, she said 'is it like when you open a bank account, you need your husband's permission?' Women needed their husbands' permission to open a bank account in 1962??

I agree mrsmulder and esp risky on blood thinners too...but I suppose they were still working these things out back then.

beinggripped you are probably right there, maybe they just threw everything they had at her. Such a sad story though.

Doesn't surprise me that women in the 60's needed their husbands permission to open a bank account. My mum married my dad around then and it was still commonplace for wives to give up work when pregnant.

I'm still buzzing. I feel like I did the night following my dds' births. Crazy.

They clearly didn't think it was going to be recommissioned as it was all so neatly tied up.

The vicar is far hotter in real life than the soggy character he plays. And if I was Barbara I would have kicked his arse for squandering that money on a fecking carousel. What a twat.

Totally squeeing over Baby Turner. It was perfect, song and all.

Just caught up and I feel wrung out! I started crying when Trixie was at the hospital with Wilma and was just getting myself pulled together when Reggie turned up. From there I just gave in and sobbed for the rest of the episode. If the BBC ever goes commercial, CTM should be sponsored by Kleenex.

I love how female-centric this programme is and how it doesn't shy away from showing the realities of the female condition. Blood in the knickers when a miscarriage threatens, sweaty dishevelled exhausted birthing mothers (so different from the perfect, not-a-hair-out-of-place births on American shows), and then tonight we had Violet's physical and emotional discomfort at going through the menopause, and Barbara's diaphragm fitting complete with anatomical terms. That scene made me wonder what the last mainstream programme might have been where you would have heard the words "vagina" and cervix".

Anyway, a wonderful end to this series. Roll on Christmas!

My mums cousin died from taking the pill in the late 60s.

There's a risk still to anything hormonal but it's barely acknowledged these days. Much lower now the dosages are adjusted obviously.

Sr Julienne was at peace with the contraception last night but last series possibly she did have reservations and wasn't sure if she could support it. Think she would have Irl though. For women in deprived areas like Poplar it must have felt like a literal miracle to no longer have to keep having children.

The woman who died was overdosing on the pill. It showed her taking several at once and taking them at all times of the day. That is why she died. I wonder why her appointment didn't show her being told how to take them.

Sr Julienne didn't want it given to unmarried women in case it encouraged 'recreational intercourse'! Otherwise it was fine. Although tbh I wanted them all to tell her it was none of her business as she only provides medical care, she doesn't set the rules. As it happened it wasn't made available to unmarried women at that time so she was happy.

MrsMulder I wondered this too. Or whether it was a case of forcing some air into her lungs (where she couldn't draw it in by breathing any more) to prolong her life long enough for the family to say goodbye.

I think Trixie said the tracheotomy would allow them to give her oxygen directly to help her breathe.

I wonder if Dr Turner was "allowed" on the bed because he is a doctor and has been to many births with the midwives/nuns and Shelagh herself.

Originally I thought that Wilma's pill taking was being used to show the passage of time until she took several at once.

As for the carousel, it would probably have been set up very quickly what with there being no health and safety to comply with :o although I don't care how realistic it was, it was lovely!

Sr Evangelina was the one opposed to men being present. The others have never been that fussed and he is a special case. I'm not sure it's that accurate but I'll take it! A bit of dramatic licence never hurt anyone

I thought it was overly soppy and twee. Felt like watching Little House On the Prarrie. Perhaps I have no heart.

My DM took the pill after I was born in the mid 60s. She said it gave her massive headaches so she had to come off it.

The look on Barbara's face throughout the diaphragm sequence was priceless.