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

[Hulababy]

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

Why would they think it wasn't being recommissioned?

I was a little surprised at the "fishing about to remove it" scene - not the usual thing you see on the BBC on a Sunday evening!

The actor who plays Dr Turner is married to the writer. He was on Radio 4 fairly recently saying that it was only right at the very end of filming that they knew it was being recommissioned.

It was a lovely interview and the actress playing Sheilagh was being interviewed too. It was Graham Norton not Radio 4

Parts of it were very corny. But I loved it, I can't wait til xmas.

Oh Good Lord! The Vicar in a Vest!!!

I did love it but the Turners singing was just too twee.

Trixie looked gorgeous as ever .

,She has film star looks when all dressed up . . I am happy to see her getting along well with her dentists daughter .

Barbara pinging that diaphragm about was brilliant
Probably the only bit I didn't cry at

I think it was brilliant showing all the contraception issues women face. Also menopause. And the midwife struggling with birth. I loved this episode especially the pinging diaphragm! It is about time stuff like this was shown on ordinary tv.

The actor who plays the vicar is lovely, isn't he?

Aren't him & the Trixie actress a couple irl?

Did anyone else think it had a bit of a Christmas special vibe? With the snow and the red flowers?

and the ex nun having a baby dressed in blue

I think the ending lent itself to run seamlessly into a Christmas Special.

I also clocked the very "Maryish" overtones of Shelagh's outfit/ birth etc.

I think the ending lent itself to run seamlessly into a Christmas Special.

I also clocked the very "Maryish" overtones of Shelagh's outfit/ birth etc.

dingit thanks for posting that video of the Turners' singing duet! I had no idea they'd done a recording!

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

Me too. I only saw the second half, though, and in fact I've missed most episodes this series, the only one I haven't watched all the way through. The singing Turners were particularly ridiculous, only topped by Dr Turner on the bed, ffs.

But the one thing I love about CTM is that the birth scenes are always so well done, so realistic. I feel emotionally involved every time a baby is born. They put much more care into getting those scenes right, I think, than any other aspect of the programme.

I get confused about the money as well, surely nurses pay wouldn't have been terrible? Plus i'm assuming they don't pay any rent or buy food so the money they earn would be mostly disposable income. Was thinking about Phyllis and the fact that she is still living in nurses accommodation, would there be no chance of her being able to buy her own house?

I had a patient ask me once if I lived in nursing accommodation not sure when that all stopped but probably not as long ago as i think!

I also thought its a real shame Chummy and Cynthia didn't show up for the wedding, has made me a bit annoyed with Miranda Hart actually.

Anyone who didn't shed a tear through last nights episode def has a heart of stone

I think Barbara uses a lot of her money to support her father's missionary work. Nurse Crane is a very down to earth character, maybe she is happy with "living in" and enjoys the camaraderie, surely the job requires it anyway? Trixie prob has a private allowance.

The Pill story - I never took the pill for very long, but even in the 1990s/2000s the risk of thrombosis was made very clear to me by the various GPs and nurses who prescribed it to me.

Just googled to find out why Miranda Hart wasn't in this series, and apparently she had been written in but pulled out at the last minute - there seem to be conflicting reports as to whether she was ill or had other commitments. Very mysterious.

I'm sure everybody knows this already, but it had completely passed me by.

Oh good found you all Thanks for the new thread Hulababy

I cried through nearly all of it.

I thought the doc.had a lovely voice and as the birth was in their own home and he's the doc I don't suppose that sister Julienne would have argued.

Awful about the Pill story. Those poor little girls left with a father who "wanted a boy". piece of shxx.

When I went on the pill in 1968 not one nurse or doc. asked if I was married (I wasn't ). I didn't sty on it for long, my body didn't like it.

"stay" on it of course

I also thought its a real shame Chummy and Cynthia didn't show up for the wedding, has made me a bit annoyed with Miranda Hart actually.

Cynthia not being there is at least consistent in-story, due to what she's going through and how short notice the wedding ended up being. And I can get round Chummy's absence by telling myself she and Barbara didn't really work together much - at all? - and wouldn't necessarily have been close enough for her to be invited to a small wedding with 30 guests.

I wasn't sure that Chummy and Barbara were ever colleagues. Leaving aside the fact that Chummy has vanished and is never mentioned, even by her husband.

Mrs Mulder. I had the same thought. Surely they could have put her in an iron lung or some sort of ventilator, if such things existed. Trachies are for problems with the upper airway. Which she didn't have. They did t even giver her any oxygen.