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

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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

Sunday evenings just got better❤️ Love this programme . Thought the Xmas spesh was brill and last nights epi . ,We must go in search of cake’ lol I concur

Beyond - yes, nurses and the police. They both know about shifts and responsibility, are practical, see all sides of life, learn how to control emotions. They understand the unpredictability of life and the need to get on with the task in hand without letting their own feelings take over.

Noticed the teal blue too

Soupdragon*The hanging breech babies down for a bit is to allow the body weight & gravity work with the next contraction for a more gentle birth, less trauma to the baby & mothers bits I would think !

Thanks beez 👍

Re breech births, wasn’t there also something about not compressing the umbilical cord while the baby is not breathing air, and preventing suffocation?

That's the third time we've had the breech baby story line.
I think about 3% of births are breech so given we are in about the 8th series I don't think it is that remarkable it has come up more than once.

As usual I got something in my eye during this episode, round about the time the funeral singers were outside the house.

Love Phyllis - she is my favourite character now.

Who else was amazed that the nun passed her driving test? DD (who needed two goes) observed it must have been much easier in those days!

I was whining at that breech birth anyone else 😖
For you call the midwife super fans you can visit the set - I think tickets aren’t too expensive

Whincing lol

Thanks Dory. I thought it looked horrible with that little lifeless body hanging there! I remember Chummy going through exactly the same steps as Trixie although with less calm confidence :)

Surely Trixie can have pinched a couple of stray packets of those new fangled contraceptive pills?! Much too ridiculous for her to get pregnant.

I agree. There’s surely no way she would let herself get “caught out” although I thought that was where the scene with her and the unmarried mother in clinic was pointing.

I winced at the hospital scene later when they mentioned her shredded nether regions! DS1 was a 10lber - I felt her pain!

I think we might give Trixie a red flag warning re smarmy dentist boyfriend. Never trust a man who refers to his ex wife and mother of his child as 'a very bitter woman'.

Oh yes to the signposting that trixie will end up an unmarried single mother. What's the pregnancy equivalent of sticking a red jersey on someone?

I was surprised one of the random mums in the clinic didn't come out with my nans favourite - "fur coat no knickers" - when Nadine walked in for her first appointment...!

I like Phyllis and the policeman, they’re both so similar in character.

Oh, they missed a trick with that line :o

that crying programme Love it, Beyond!

I think we might give Trixie a red flag warning re smarmy dentist boyfriend. Never trust a man who refers to his ex wife and mother of his child as 'a very bitter woman'.

When he appeared in CTM to begin with, I genuinely thought they were setting him up to break Trixie's heart and quite possibly turn out to be a murderer or something. My brain was spotting red flags all over the place! Is it just me who finds him a bit creepy? When he's nice it just seems manipulative.

Loving it, especially as I was a very young student nurse in the 1962/1963 big freeze in a childrens hospital in the East End. Remember babies needing exchange blood transfusions for Rh negative, they took so long.
Bringing back very happy memories, the East End taught me humility and to never judge people.

I loved it, too! So happy it's back!

Trixie and Lucille were wonderful during that breech delivery. I had tears more than once!

morningtoncrescent62 Mon 22-Jan-18 11:09:50
How very interesting that you actually lived there among that jewish community at this time.

Teal blue: I think contempororary designers have decided this was a 'mid-century' colour.
Someone mentioned this on another thread about someone now wanting to paint a banister that colour.

No, teal blue was not ubiquitous in the mid century or 1963, although it may have sometimes been used as part of a two colour printing design on leaflets, or on kitchen cabinets with white edging, and maybe on a few modern sofas.

2old2 Thank goodness someone else who remembers the 62/63 big freeze! I was 12 yrs old and we had bought a puppy which we were carrying home, we put her down to walk in the snowy pavements (she was the last in the litter and oldest in the shop) and she just stood and shivered !!

It was amazing, the snow just built up on the pavements. We had horrible paraffin heaters and dm had to queue up for the paraffin, I don't remember the power cuts but they were to do with the impossibility of getting coal to the power stations If I remember rightly.

I'm soo pleased this is back . There were lots of pretty dresses then and pashminas (they called them 'stoles'). I was in pieces too!

dogsdinnerlady Mon 22-Jan-18 12:05:51
I think we might give Trixie a red flag warning re smarmy dentist boyfriend. Never trust a man who refers to his ex wife and mother of his child as 'a very bitter woman'

Unfortunately, the voice over at the end - which we are to take as the voice of the wise all knowing one - tells us that in making the decision to go against her own instincts, (that the dentist is disrespecting her and her pink nail varnish and thinks she is easy unlike his wife), Trixie is wisely setting herself free from a cage of her own making and is destined for sublime happiness. This is a very modern voice over.

Shelagh and the doctor are even more wet than previously if that is even possible.

'Would you like a Nescafé Shelagh'

'Patrick! It's almost bedtime 😮'

Christ, I wish they'd get written out.

I miss Barbara.

2old2 Thank goodness someone else who remembers the 62/63 big freeze!

Me too - skating along a canal

Oh dear ppeatfruit and KindDogsTail that still makes me the oldest but not by too much phew!