Call the Midwife.

[Toddlerteaplease]

What is going on with Mother Mildreds make up?

I don't think there was anything wrong with the thermos. Hers was bought new so she could contribute to the "tea on a bench" with Phyllis and would be the "latest design". The design hasn't changed that much over the years - I have one from about 2005 that doesn't look much different to the ones of my childhood.

The thermos looked fine to me, I was a child at that time we always had one for picnics. I thought the tea always tasted funny.

I didn't hear the explanation for the wig either.

Well the explanation was never explicitly given but the implication was that it was because she was working as a prostitute.

I thought she was trying to look different to fit in with her made up story about having one other child living with his father. She was hoping to be allowed to keep the new baby, so was trying to look like, and be, another person entirely. That's my theory anyway!

The wig was togive her a different identity for "work" . I think Sister juliennes realisation about babies are not for every woman was progress for her

Yes, the wig was her "armour" in a way.

That was a big realisation for Sister Julienne. Although is it more the "unmarried women having sex" rather than contraception? I think she was fine with contraception within marriage previously.

Couple of things,

Yes the paper pill cup stuck out to me too. How did they think that was ok?

Hemacromatosis isn’t that well known now. It’s hard to get a diagnosis today. My family have it and I probably do as well. I don’t think it was well known at all in the 60’s. I don’t think a GP would have made that leap to diagnose. It’s commonly found in Ireland as it’s a Celtic disease.

I don’t think a GP would have made that leap to diagnose

This is not just any GP, this is DrTurner...

Well quite Dr Turner super doc who can make a full diagnises of every thing just by sitting up late squinting at his 2 medical books.

I'm catching up on last night's, why is sister J so awkward about being in the brothel and examining the prostitute ? It isn't like it's the first time she's come across them.

I don't know Sister J always said never judge but she wouldn't examine the girl, she is a nurse inthe eastend she will have seen prostitutes with veneral disease.

I love CTM but Dr T's acting spoils it for me.

Exactly. I watched some of series 1 the other day and she was all over how we shouldn't judge, the squalid living conditions, the woman with syphilis etc.

Sister MJ would have examined her without the look of disgust on her face

She was very unsure about the contraceptive pill a few series back if I remember correctly.

Maybe she just felt vulnerable in the brothel.

Yes she was against the contraceptive pill and brook advisory that trixie helps out at it was a contradiction to her faith and her nursing.

True, she may have felt vulnerable in the brothel with all the unmarried sex going on around her

I wasn’t sure why she took her nursing bag with her if she wasn’t prepared to examine her.

She couldn’t do an sti examination then and there - it would have needed swabs and stuff to label and pack it for the labs. If it had been a pregnancy thing, I’m sure she’d have had her knickers off and been there in a tick.

Not sister J’s knickers, obvs.

Hemacromatosis isn’t that well known now. It’s hard to get a diagnosis today. DH and always play spot the disease, he's a health care professional but not a doctor and diagnosed that one quite quickly. He missed the ectopic, though, and thought the gonorrhea had spread to her joints - it can happen apparently.

I love diagnosing. But I thought that the make up department had just overdone her foundation like Mildreds but I did guess it as soon as they said jaundice. I knew someone who died of it.

@CaptainMyCaptain

Yes, we guessed it too, but I don’t think it was well known in the 60’s at all.

@Toddlerteaplease do you know someone who died of hemochromatosis?

I know of somebody who died of this a girl I used to go to school with DH he died of liver disease it was very sad people used to say to her was he a drinker was a shame .

I got the ectopic.

In the early series I used to live with a flatmate, and as soon as they mentioned swollen ankles we'd shout pre-eclampsia at the telly.