Call the midwife

[NimbleHiker]

The Christmas special of call the midwife is on bbc 1 in 2 parts again. The first part is on at 20:15 on Christmas day and the second part is on at 20:30 on boxing day. I am not a fan of the Christmas special been in 2 parts. I wonder how doctor Turner and his simpering wife will save the world.

Yeah 😁
My husband was a "6 monther" !!

Looking back to the late eighties and early nineties I'd say the majority of first babies I knew were born to -ahem- recently married couples. I don't know what Cyrils congregation will have to say about the situation.

Someone recently completed our entire family tree with marriage and birth dates.

The majority of marriage to birth of first child is significantly less than 9 months - including mine.

I thought this too - a midwife making a mistake like that with the pill is unrealistic!

By the 70s I don’t think people were that bothered about a woman already being pregnant when she got married, as long as they were married when the baby was born. It would raise eyebrows but wouldn’t be a massive scandal

A nurse/midwife being pregnant out of wedlock would have been a no no though, Rosalind is right to worry about being sacked. She will have to keep it quiet until they get married

They do. A friend dc is married to an Italian and a lovely blue ribbon wrapped around the door when we went to visit.

Back to reading the thread now as only just watched the episode.

Feels like it’s coming to an end 😢😢

Yes most people probably didn't really care that much and likely made lots of jokes about "premature" honeymoon babies (which is why if you had a 10pounder it made it awkward).
Cyril's church ladies though definitely won't approve. I can totally picture the crossed arms and disapproving looks.

Well to be fair Cyril’s behaviour is very odd for a pastor.

Physician heal thyself!

He doesn't seem to do much Pastoring anyway 😁
I feels like sometimes the script writers forget what jobs characters have.
Fred is the Miss Rabbit of Poplar. He was the bloody Lollypop man recently. Really? That time if the day would be busy in his shop.

This.

But like Billy in Corrie😅

thought he was a social worker as well?

I think Rosalind was so desperate for a shag that she would have gone pop if she’d had to wait any longer 😉😂

Based on dates of weddings and births, three of my four great grandmothers were either pregnant or already had a baby when they got married. I think it was much more common than people admitted.

I was at a girls grammar school in the 1960s.
The Headmistress had been a Biology teacher. Miss Roberts.

The total sum of our ‘sex education’ in the seven years I was there was a single lesson from Miss Roberts about VDs. I gave up Biology (we studied beasties in the order of how complicated they were, starting with single-called amoeba, I got as far as cockroaches) when I made my O level choices but only the bottom set was allowed to take Human Biology anyway.

The term after I left we amalgamated with the boys grammar. I don’t know if things changed, but I hope so.

I was at Grammar School in the 1960s. Sex Education was basically the word No and it was up to the girl to set the standards in a relationship.

Penultimate episode tonight then. I’ve enjoyed this series so far, tweeness and all.

Isn’t it the Baftas tonight?

Yes BAFTAS tonight.
Back next week.

Yes.

@NimbleHiker ..just as a heads up before next week .
This thread is at 996 .
Well ..it will be 997 when my comment gets posted !

I did create a new thread last week. I did post the link bt i will post it again.