Call the Midwife.

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Anyone watching? Dr smug unfortunately appears fully recovered from the train crash.

So is this gearing up for Lucille to come back pregnant in the Christmas special?

When did the law change for teenage pregnancies?

I mean, all we heard is “you’re a minor therefore you cannot choose what happens with your baby”

When did it change so young teenagers had a say in what happened

So next week's spoiler suggests Trixie's getting married in the community centre?
I think I'd have preferred to see her have a chic registry office ceremony or pared-back church wedding. It doesn't seem quite 'them' and all the community centre storylines become rather twee after a while! Not to mention it being where she works, collecting urine samples and doing pelvic exams 😂

It would've worked for some other characters but Trixie should have something fabulous!

I'm surprised the Yay twins weren't invited to be bridesmaids 🙄 Perhaps Dr Turner will walk Trixie down the aisle... 😂

Actually would the community centre have been licensed to hold weddings back then? Other characters have held their receptions there.

I was wondering this

I wish they had some text at the end of episodes like this to say when laws were changed .

Ok I could google but don't always want to

Simpering Stepford Turner wife asking if there's any treatment for leukaemia.

She's an effing nurse!

It's so patronising of the writers to make Dr Oneface Mansplain explain to the audience via his presumably well-read, intelligent wife, who might not know the ins and outs of the various drugs but would definitely have an inkling about cancer treatments.

I hope so x

But Cyril going is also a lead to a storyline of neither he or Lucille coming back.

I know someone with psoriasis, he explained it well, his skin thinks it’s injured and tries to renew itself only it goes into overdrive, causing it to thicken up or peel off. It affects his joints too.
He finds sunlight helps him the most.

I was the opposite, I rolled my eyes at it but it’s one of the most unrealistic things about weddings in long-running TV serials. In reality Trixie would have made friends outside work after living in the same place for 12 years or whatever it’s been now, she might have kept in touch with Jenny or Patsy or friends she made from her trainee days. But of course there has to be a reason shoehorned in as to why she ends up having to alight on “colleague and colleague’s daughter who she’s known for five minutes” (comparatively speaking) to play a major role at her wedding simply because they’re in the current cast.

I did giggle at Nancy saying Violet's dresses were very haughty culture and Trixie looking pained!

I'm surprised Nancy was so delighted, I'd have been miffed that only asked as an afterthought once the "blonde and 6" twins couldn't make it. At least have said , if you are sure your pictures will look balanced enough! Thought was rude of Trixie, could have at least admitted she should have asked them in the first place.

It's not always about people being horrible though. Many people thought that it was better for the baby and mum to go with adoption. For similar reasons that many people today would say the girl should have an abortion.

It's a bit of a problem on the show now that they have trouble writing characters who think like people did in the 50s and 60s unless they are supposed to be bad people. Which is interesting because in the first few series they seemed to manage it.

Which is interesting because in the first few series they seemed to manage it
I think that is because the first few series were based on Jennifer Worth's memoirs, and I think they stuck pretty faithfully to the books. So the characters and stories in the early series were strongly based on real people and events, whereas the later ones are complete fiction. I think you can really tell the difference between the authenticity of the early series and the rather forced morality stories of the recent ones. I still watch and find it entertaining but I think the storylines have got progressively weaker and recent series are not a patch on the first few.

Surely Trixie would have had some posh girl friends, who she'd have asked before Nancy and Colette.

Everyone was a bit too forgiving of the mum who left the little boys with a father she knew would be unable to care for them. Silly storyline.

It is interesting that the bbc obviously struggle with the concept of good people doing bad things because they believed it was right at the time.

Given Sheila and the Dr adopted a baby from a young single mother I think there would have been a lot more discussion/persuasion going on about having the baby adopted.

Totally agree! Terrible mother.

I had to smile at the Stepford Three, busy watching TV after their nit treatment, protesting when told to go upstairs because Mum and Dad needed to talk about something upsetting!! I think its the first time they have behaved as normal children would do!!

On another note, I'm rewatching the early series and noticed (everyone else probably spotted it ages ago!) the name of the chap Jenny goes out with just before she leaves to work with older people - Philip Worth............!! I haven't read the books but assume that gentleman became her husband?

I want to know how, they set up a new and busy clinic, on a weekday night with two days notice. How did they get the staff!

@blobby10 yes she married him. Amazed anyone was good enough for her though. And they had two children. She gave up nursing fairly soon afterwards.

She would have to get married somewhere else either register office or church and have the reception there.

I assume the difference was because they’ve already used the “young single mother forced to give up her baby for adoption” storyline at least once, so wanted to explore a new angle.

The sister of a friend of mine had a baby out of wedlock in the early 60s. She was over 16 but refused to tell her parents who the father was so her mother hired a private detective to find out. She lived at home with the baby, though, until she married someone else.

One year at my school, probably 1969, 4 girls in the 5th year (yr11) got pregnant. One had a baby with Downs who died, one got married but the baby was still born and the other two kept their babies. There were different ways of dealing with it even then. None of those babies were adopted. After that the school introduced sex education lessons for the girls - 'the only safe contraceptive is the word NO'

Oops…pressed post too soon. But I did think it was unrealistic that people were cooing over the baby in her pram in that little bit at the end. More likely that they’d be nudging each other and whispering from the other side of the road and the teenager and her mother would have to march along pretending grimly that they hadn’t noticed everyone gossiping about them.

Exactly. It's so saccharine sweet now it's just annoying. Always neat happy endings to tales of adversity, like Stepford.

Last night's was especially cloying with the father who got a telling off than suddenly was having treatment for psoriasis and happy to go out and about - after being so debilitated he was peeing in bottles. His wife who had left her family and seemingly never visited them suddenly back and taking care of everyone. etc.

It seemed more like the leukemia-induced, fairy tale hallucinations of the boy tbh. Like a dream.