Call The Midwife Christmas Special

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Anyone watching? Apologies if I’ve missed the thread.

Oh, do tell us more about your experiences and how they differ from CTM!

My husband had a friend who was a Sir, and when he died his eldest son became Sir Firstname Secondname. This one has twin boys and only the eldest will inherit the title. He is eldest by a minute!

@5foot5 I think you are right. It was very cringy when Trixie used her title.

Matthew must be a baronet as that is the only hereditary title with the honorific "Sir" (the rest are Lords), and the wife of a baronet is known as "Lady" which would fit for Trixie.

@Saltandpeppera I had one of those outfits! All my colleagues have photos of them in theirs, but I don't! I wish I did

I really don't think I can be bothered with a Trixie and Matthew are broke storyline. We need one couple other than the Turners to have a happy ending.

Surprised they didn't get the baby christened by Cyril since he seems to be playing the local vicar role. Nice to too see that it was in a Wren church.

They didn't though...the baby was put into a harness. The leaflet said Sage harness, I don't know if that's the same as a pavlik harness.

My DS had a pavlik harness twenty years ago. I assume guidelines have changed, as we weren't allowed to take it off AT ALL, even to wash. To change clothes you could only undo one strap at a time, then do it up before undoing the next. We also had to go into the fracture clinic every week to get it adjusted.

I think later on he would've been allowed out of the harness for an hour a day, then two etc, but he was only in it for four weeks, then taken out as it wasn't working. He had surgery aged one and spent four months in plaster. 6 months in the harness would have been much easier.

No, guidelines haven't changed. They are absolutely not to be removed. And no one but an orthopaedic consultant or the specialist nurses are allowed to adjust them. Although they do go under clothes.

I saw that they used the harness in the end but the double terries was the first thing mentioned

Im sorry your ds had to go through what he did, but equally so glad that he has, as the alternative, which my dad went through for all his 84 years was horrific. My friend’s dd had to go through it too, but she always said that knowing that not going through it would lead to my dad’s issues, kept her focused on getting through it

DS's was on top of a vest, but could wear other clothes on top (babygro's wouldn't go over the legs though, luckily it was summer!)

Oh yes, the treatment was definitely worth it, and I'm so glad it was available. He was discharged at 14 with 'near normal hips' and has no issues now 🙂

My youngest (1982)had congenital hip displacement (clicky hips) alongside an a almost fused fontanelle. She wore double nappies for five months, thankfully it worked. I had to pull the nappies on really tight. Disposable nappies were becoming more available but I had to use terry nappies.
They didn’t have the harness on correctly last night when the Irish nurse put it on, her feet were out of it.
We were never away from the hospital for monitoring both conditions. DD’s head growth was measured weekly and thankfully she didn’t need a bone graft as her bone plates in her skull had a good overlap which allowed her skull to grow. Then at 14 she was diagnosed with scoliosis, she’s certainly been through the mill.
She’s now 41, mum of my gorgeous grandkids.

My daughter was born with it in 2014 (also breech). She was in a Wheaton Pavlik Harness for 15 weeks. It did the trick.

My most hated job at work is to tidy up spica plasters and stick padding and tape to them to protect them from the inevitable leaks! It takes ages, the babies hate it and I always get backache I wish the surgeons would do it in theatre!

Goodness that's a lot to go through! I hope she's enjoying her best health now xx

I’m finally starting to catch up - forgot it started on the 7th and haven’t had time since.

I really enjoyed the first episode and like the new characters so far, weird to have no mention of Lucille though.

I think if Lucille is 100% not coming back then they'll kill her off offscreen so Cyril can end up with one of the students. Did Nurse Highland not say she wasn't religious? That could give them some storylines between her and Cyril in a romance if they clash about that.

Killing Lucille off is sadly the only way I can see Cyril moving on unless he leaves the show. I bet they say she's going to come back to be with him and he'll be there to greet her but some tragedy will have befallen her on the way and he'll just stand there waiting sadly. Probably surrounded by a lot of teal.

There seem to be so many sudden exits from CTM these days... most characters leave without any story arc and precious little explanation. It does make me speculate if all is not a bed of roses behind the scenes! I bet Heidi rules it with an iron fist! There has been Val, Lucille, Sisters' Francis and Hilda and now Sir Aylward is due to make a swift exit! All of them have just disappeared with barely a line explaining their demise!

Is it just me or have the dresses and skirts suddenly gotten very short this season? -clutches pearls-

Back in the 1960’s in London,Matron would use a ruler to measure our dress length! When we had gone we would hitch the dress up and tuck it into our belt to make it shorter! We wore black stockings and suspenders then,so a good view when we bent over! A bit like Barbara Windsor in the carry on films.

Thanks for the link, I looked at the list as my Great grandmother was the first lady mayor of my home town and wondered whether she would be on there (she's not).

Found a record online and she was elected in 1955, my great grandfather had been mayor a few years before she was.

Found the hip dysplasia really interesting- I was born with it and didn’t even know about it until my mum mentioned it when I was pregnant. I just wore double nappies according to her and this would have been early 90s.

Glad Fred’s not dead, they really had me worried (probably because, unlike Sister MJ, he doesn’t threaten to die every other week)

I really enjoyed Sunday’s ep. Fred and Violet are compelling characters. The hip storyline was interesting and the actress playing Stephanie’s anxious mother did a great job. Phyllis and Millicent, stellar as always.

Love Cyril, but they need to decide what he is going to do about his marriage. I’m hoping he qualifies as a SW and stays because it could make for interesting stories and interactions with the midwives. SWs have only been incidental characters so far. I recall one in a teen mum storyline and also in a story with a young woman with Down Syndrome who was pregnant.

It's Wikipedia though so not necessarily accurate because it relies on people updating, adding to it and correcting it.

You need to add yoir great grandmother in @littlecrocodiles . She deserves to be on there!! If you have an online article about her you can link it as a source which will make it more obvious it's actual fact.