Call the Midwife.

[Toddlerteaplease]

What is going on with Mother Mildreds make up?

Cried buckets tonight. I was on the edge anyway and needed a cry. This just set me off.

@stumbledin

Did you know it is now a trend for young things you dont in fact think duvets are that great, that you can now buy "weighted blankets" to make you feel more secure and sleep better. Selling for £60!!!!!

I'm not sure I'm a 'young thing' but my weighted blanket is amazing. I've never weighed a regular blanket but I reckon the amount I'd need to get an equal weight would be far too hot to sleep under! Cost more than £60 though

@Elderflower14, so sorry I hope you didn't continue watching.

It was a sad episode. The May storyline is boring. The mum's English was remarkable to say she'd only recently come to England and spent most of the day with children.

Really sad at the Warren storyline. I was crying. My brother died under similar-ish circumstances.

I like Trixie but as a PP said, she's just become a characature of herself with nothing to bring.

They (midwives) all also wear too much makeup and look very groomed. In the first series there was not a lot of makeup and they all looked more natural.

I guessed hole in the heart but had forgotten her children had German measles. Very sad storyline but done well.

I thought the whole gazing out the window moment was more him trying to deal with the grim realities of life on the district but it did have a creepy vibe. Young nun clearly has endometriosis and will become a pethidine addict. To answer a pp yes it is given in labour, sometimes post-operatively if the usual drugs can’t be given or aren’t working. I’ve only seen it in IV form (I’m a nurse).

Still waiting for Dr T to take a tumble!

It wasn't a hole. It was hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

I had a good cry about all of it.

The ending was lovely. I'm so glad Lucille and Cyril seem to be back on track.

Heartbreaking episode tonight. Poor baby Warren. And I felt so sorry for May's mum

I know the Turners are sickly sweet but they are great parents and just want the best for May surely?

Very sad episode. For once I cried.

Pethidine was fairly routine in labour when I had mine 40 years ago. Is it not used so much now? I've never heard of it being given for period pain though.

So nobody is going to mention it then?

Nobody?

Ok.

Why was Nurse Anderson using a tea towel to hold a trifle?

Was it hot? Was it a hot trifle? What fresh hell is this?

Ooh, wish I'd noticed the tea towel!

Hot trifle is actually delicious. But I hadn't spotted the trifle holding. Maybe she didn't want to get fingerprints on the glass bowl?

Pethidine was amazing! I had it in labour in the 1980’s and also was given an injection of it by doctor on a home visit in the late 80’s for severe 2 day long migraine. The relief was instant. I understood at that moment how easy it would be to become addicted to prescription drugs. Nothing ever since has come close to getting rid of migraine so successfully.
I believe after Dr Shipman doctors were not allowed to carry drugs in their “ home visit bags”.
I instantly thought “ she’s going to have an addiction storyline”
What was the new doctor doing in the cupboard at the end , a preview of next week?

Now that it's getting closer to my year of birth, I keep spotting things that remind me of my childhood. This week it was using old Fairy Liquid bottles to squirt water at each other in the hot summer days! And trifle!

I'm confused. Didnt Shelagh have a baby. I thought Angela was their biological daughter

Angela is adopted.
Teddy their biological son

Is he ever in it?? I've never noticed him. It always seems to be the 2 girls

Very rarely. He was in it tonight when Shelagh said "let's go and wake up Timothy"

Yeah poor Teddy is never around. They just have that big cage (playpen) sitting empty ominously in their house.

They adopted Angela then she got pregnant thinking she couldn,t. TEddy was there with the girls in a few scenes. My last birth plan was to have pethidine over an epidural but actually none was needed.

Rufty tufty 6' 4" dh was doing a lot of surreptitious eye wiping this evening, especially over the Warren storyline.

Yes I meant I guessed he would have a hole in his heart because of the blue lips, I was wrong....I had forgotten her children had German measles.

Teddy is often about but just sitting in the pram.

i think i am still a week behind in watching this.
what a disappointment this series is though.

I was too busy worrying about that trifle being thrown around in the back of the van to notice the tea towels.