Call the midwife

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The call the midwife christmas special is on bbc 1 in 2 parts. The first part will be shown on christmas day at 20:00. The second part will be shown at 19:30 on boxing day. Series 14 will start on 5th January. I am suprised that it has not been renamed as the doctor Turner show.

Poor Paula, packed off alone to the mother and baby unit alone like that. How old was she meant to be?

I really like CTM. The storylines can be quite serious, even grim, but I love the warm sense of community and the camaraderie amongst the women. My mum's midwife (home birth), lived just round the corner in a house provided by the Health Authority. She was a Jamaican nurse and highly respected in our working class community.

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We really love CTM in our house, although I’ll admit we treat it more as a comedy than a drama.

Poor old Vanessa Redgrave though, I wonder how long her voice will last.

I thought this was a good episode, when they said Paula's hymen was intact I assumed it was another child that had got her pregnant 🫤 the religious men chanting was unbelievably grim, poor kid.

I got a bit confused by the blonde midwife crying on Cyril's shoulder, what was that about? It's obvious those two fancy each other so that could be interesting...

I wondered when they stopped doing the vertical c.sections?

I was expecting Paula's dad to grab her out of the taxi and take her home.

Was it just me that thought Paula was having a miscarriage when she turned up at Nonnatus House clutching her stomach? Probably would have been a better outcome for her than being shipped off to the mother and baby home to have her baby forcibly removed and adopted out. And as if they'd have let her bring the bloody hamsters with her.

I enjoyed that episode. I thought it was a good start to the series. I remember the Delrosa Rosehip Syrup from my childhood. I was also given Virol which tasted lovely.
Dr Turner is a terrible mansplainer. I think a different actor could act it more in a pondering aloud way rather than "explaining to the silly nurses" way like Stephen McGann.
I'll definitely miss CTMW when it ends. I hope they go straight on to a prequel on January Sunday evenings. Or something else I'll enjoy just as much.

I looked through the CtM section of the iPlayer and audited the episodes that I haven’t watched. I have a pattern of starting the series and then leaving when there are 2 or 3 episodes left to run as it all gets too much, but I will also be sad when it fully ends. It feels like an institution at this point.

It’s interesting how new characters have managed to establish themselves and seem as though they have always been part of the series - Nancy, Joyce, Violet and Reggie- and other well
embedded characters have left and haven’t really left a gap - Jenny Lee, the very loud bossy nun, the nurse who became a nun.

Im in a minority here, I fear, but I REALLY like Cyril. He’s the perfect caring, engineering, cat-loving man. And Lucille is bang out of character order.

Cyril does seem attractive, a calm presence
but why was the blond nurse so emotional

that was stupid with Reggie and Fred, with Fred being a Steward!

Because of the poor girl who was pregnant?

Didn’t her brother, who was house-sitting the flat, say that the heating had broken in the building and that’s why he came to stay at Nonnatus House over Christmas?

Presumably it’s still broken. Or else it’s easier for her to live at Nonnatus House while she’s working and her husband is away.

I wonder how they’re going to rid of her husband? I don’t want Trixie to go off to New York to be with him.

All of the Buckles need to go now. They bring nothing to the table.

If only the Northern Ireland peace process had Miss Higgins on the case!!

Dr Turner needs to step away from the just for men!

@TheDowagerCountessofPembroke i think she was meant to be 12. I cried for her. Her mum was so annoying, not letting her have sex education. Would have stopped the problem if the poor girl was aware of what was happening

no Surely he was saying it as evidence that it could not have been him who could have made her pregnant - nothing else in his behaviour or the rest of the show suggested he abused her

My Gran was a midwife in the East End in the 1920s - nothing to do with nuns - but had some amazing stories to tell. Agreed, I’d rather this went right back than continued forward with the Tiresome Turners.

I've given up with it, so I suspect I'll miss the episode where Dr Turner rips open his shirt to reveal super hero Dr. T, who saves the world (starting in London).

I'd also love it to go back in time - but to do so succesfully requires different writers. It's not like the early 70s are devoid of potential storylines, it's just that they are handled so clunkily these days that they hardly ever hit a true note.

It was certainly interesting to contrast Dr Turner mansplaining to the silly nurses with the pay rise that recognised their professionalism.

I thought that about NI and Miss Higgins 😂

I'm guessing CtM will stop when the nuns are finally outed from nonatus house...

and the fact that the nuns knew the mother was no longer entitled was annoyingly done!

Exactly. They. The turners get on my nerves. I get irretated with the yey children too.

At least it's looking like a happy storyline for Nancy and Roger, which makes a change. There were some doom-laden prophecies online!