Call the midwife starts this Sunday!!! Who's excited?

[Soubriquet]

I certainly am

I don't think it's a good as it was when it first started, and it can be a tad predictable at times but I still love this show

When I binge watched the House of Elliot on DVD a few years ago, I realised that they had precisely ONE car that was always coming round corners. It had the same number plate.

I was annoyed by the "it has another name now - tokophobia", how about PTSD as well? I feel rather like PTSD is still reserved for "big tough men home from the war" and everyone else just has lesser, more medical-sounding versions.

I think she had PTSD, rather than a phobia of Labour. She had obviously had a birth trauma.

I think she had PTSD, rather than phobia of labour
I thought the same Windy. There would have been something wrong with her if she hadn't been upset, what happened to her was so awful.

I had a forceps delivery. So I can understand the PTSD.

Yes, the teal. I even saw it in Barclays Bank today on all the uniforms and pamphlets: Barclays have tealed up their original blue! If ever there was a modern projection on to the perceived past, CTM is an example of it.

I was a young child at a faith school in the same year are this is set. The head teacher, a nun, had to talk to us children because three fostered Caribbean black children who had started to attend the school (who incidentally were the only black children there) were being bullied and called "Blackie". In showing so much acceptance of colour in 1963 as they are, think that in CTM sometimes it is more as though the writers are trying to put the past right for the present generation to feel good than portray some unpleasant aspects of our society as it was then. On the other hand thank goodness our own real nun in 1963 did tell us off and put us to shame.

None the less I love CTM. I liked the nuns being more included again last night.

Re: the misdiagnosis of what is in fact PTSD
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-42230192

I think it need to be renamed Teal The Tealwife now. I'm all for a motif but, blimey. Just say no folks!

Just catching up with it now, teal aside, it's really boring!

I was thinking PTSD too

And I agree they totally minimised Eunice's condition by suggesting it was 'just' fear of giving birth. It may have been tokophobia - but as a result of PTSD stemming from her first birth experience.

There was no such thing as PTSD in the 60s.

Well there was, obvs, but it wasn't recognised as a "thing".

Teal City wasn't it!

Dr Turner really is everywhere now, I'm rewatching this on Netflix and am on series 2 and he isn't in so many scenes compared to now. He's so much more irritating than he used to be!

I would have like to have seen more of the sailor and Sister MJ, I thought their scenes together were very touching.

There was no such thing as PTSD in the 60s
You are right Hereat. It is really only recently that we seem to know about it.

Surely Dr Turner is in it more because with the NHS the gp was more involved? When the series started it was pre NHS and many poor people never saw a doctor in their life. The midwives did all the work and were considered the experts. With the NHS and hospital deliveries etc midwives got sidelined and doctors came to the front. Then in later years of course we stopped having family GPs and it became more as it is today.

To me CTM is reflecting the increased doctors involvement.

At least Dr Turner has developed some self-awareness this episode... he says something like "I won't go in there, I'll only make things worse" in the PTSD birth scene.

Finding it a bit grating that Reg calls Vi "Mum".

@MipMipMip NHS was formed 1948. First series of CTM was mid 50s, so NHS was already around.

I do think it shows the increased medicalisation of childbirth - from majority Home birth to now when most are hospital/midwife unit births.

Why does Sheila wear her watch halfway up her arm?

She looks as though any second she might be called to put her hand up a cow's uterus.

Does she have aspirations towards animal midwifery? Will there be a spin off where she becomes a vet?

Wouldn't surprise me.

I dunno. Obviously things were becoming more medical at this point but I think we're just getting more and more of him because the writer likes the character and thinks the women need a man to swoon over on a Sunday night.

Dr Turner is married to the writer, maybe that's why he's in it more!

I'm glad other people have noticed the teal, as I thought I was going mad seeing it everywhere

McGann is not a great actor. I wouldn't mind the doctor being in it more often if he had other facial expressions and wasn't just shoehorned into scenes by his wife.

Obviously ptsd didn't exist as "ptsd", but dr Turner had shell shock from the war (I went and checked, he definitely did). Surely he could have recognised that she appeared to be traumatised and reacting in a similar way to how he did. I thought he did, from his reaction to the mils "pull yourself together" comments, but then he started going on about phobia.

I've looked, and even now ptsd from childbirth isn't actually in the dsm. [anger]

It’s called tokophobia apparently.

And @TheQueenOfWands it’s so she doesn’t get bodily fluids on her watch etc, keeps it nicely out of the way.