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

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Soubriquet · 16/01/2018 10:30

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

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MrsJayy · 26/02/2018 13:10

I reckon they just explained away babies as belonging too.. and because it would have been seen as a scandal it was easier to accept and ignore. Girl I went to school with called her gran mum and her mum sister as far as the village gossip went the bio mum was 15 when she had her.

KriticalSoul · 26/02/2018 13:17

I said meningitis when they showed that rash, my dad had what they used to all 'meningococcal septicaemia' in the 70s so I would assume that's what she's got, even if they don't give it the full name.

iklboo · 26/02/2018 13:17

Teal had fallen, teal on teal
Teal on teal
In the teal midwinter
Long time ago

Clawdy · 26/02/2018 14:50

Watching it with DH, he said "Stop going on about the teal...." But I couldn't!

Margomyhero · 26/02/2018 14:56

Yikes!! Poor Barbara. She's too lovely to have anything bad happen to her.

I'll be interested to see how the widow with 4 children can run a shop on her own. Especially just after birthing twins. I'm sure they'll all rally round.

Was quite a lot gong on in this episode .

CannotEvenThink · 26/02/2018 15:33

I expect the widow will have a thriving business and wonderful happy children because London is a perfect multicultural melting pot of kindness and joy.

user1486915549 · 26/02/2018 15:35

When it ended I said “ ooh good. Goody Barbara could die and trixie can have her vicar back “
DH told me off for being mean.
By the way reading this thread has turned everything teal !

GnotherGnu · 26/02/2018 15:38

DS normally copes with the birth scenes without turning a hair, but had to leave the room when they started waving sanitary towels and tampons about. I've definitely noted that tactic for the next time I have trouble getting him off his backside ...

Yorkshirebetty · 26/02/2018 16:32

I was just thinking that Gnu - it must be the only programme to actually show a sanitary towel!

Margomyhero · 26/02/2018 16:45

Yes you are probably right Cannot Grin

Margomyhero · 26/02/2018 16:46

I didn't know they had tampons then? I always thought they were more of a 70s thing?

WindyWednesday · 26/02/2018 16:56

I don’t think they were commonly called “periods” in the 60’s. My mother and grandmother both called it “the curse” and were horrified I called it “periods” that wasn’t really a naice word.

BikeRunSki · 26/02/2018 17:11

No, much earlier! My mum was almost expelled in the 1950s for having contraband tampons.

Google suggests they were first marketed in the 1930s.

HemlockStarglimmer · 26/02/2018 17:27

My mum, now in her eighties, used tampons when she was young. She told us how the first time she was struggling to insert one her mother was shouting instructions from the other side of the bathroom door 😁

Margomyhero · 26/02/2018 18:01

Ah I guess I hadn't really thought about them being available so recently.

Every day is a school day on mumsnet:)

StripySocksAndDocs · 26/02/2018 18:09

I must admit I don't really notice the teal. Evidently I'm blind to the colour. (Just like London was colour blind in the 60s. Apparently.)

GnotherGnu · 26/02/2018 18:32

We definitely called them periods in the 1960s. Sure, we had other slang terms but that was the main one.

lou1221 · 26/02/2018 18:33

Only just watched the pox ep, even my dh, who was born in 1964, commented that the pregnant woman who was petrified of giving birth, they wouldn't have a telephone, and according to the back in time for tea series. only 7% of the population had one back then.

Certainly not what it used to be.

Toddlerteaplease · 26/02/2018 20:39

In next weeks trailer, Sr MJ is not wearing glass's.My grandma had cataract surgery in the late 70's and wore thick glasses for the rest of her life. As there is no more lense in the eye. Mrs Patmore In Downton had a similar miraculous recovery of sight!

BertieBotts · 26/02/2018 20:41

I think they have a mixture of rich and poor families in the programme though, don't they? And tokophobia woman seemed quite well-to-do to me.

BrutusMcDogface · 26/02/2018 20:44

Aw, poor lovely Barbara. I hope she gets better because I want her and the vicar to have lovely little sweet natured, rosy-cheeked babies! Trixie and Vic weren't right for each other.

BuzzKillington · 26/02/2018 20:53

I love CTMW, but the 15 year old and I have just watched last night's and laughed all the way through it.

It was so predictable and utterly daft. It did give me a useful lead into a conversation about hymens though 😂

Girliefriendlikesflowers · 26/02/2018 22:30

I def think this has been the weakest series 😟 which is a shame as I love CTM so much! It's become too cliché, too predictable and lacking in realism. Will still watch though obviously 😉

ChampagneSocialist1 · 26/02/2018 22:44

My friend was born at home and after her birth her dad handed cigarettes to her mum, the midwife and the doctor and they all enjoyed a smoke to celebrate her arrival. Also my granny was advised by the doctor to take up smoking to help with her morning sickness Shock How times change

Girliefriendlikesflowers · 26/02/2018 23:13

I'm a community nurse and a few years ago I was on a joint visit with a dr where the (very well to do) patient offered him a cigarette! It was just like something from CTM, the dr declined 😉

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