Call the Midwife

just read the article Nanapug you are famous!

Thank you glamma I found it. My family think it very funny!! xx

nanapug if you go to the link from josie further up this thread you will find the link and can then read the article for yourself.

Thank you glamma for letting me know. Like you I was in no way anti the program, in fact it is the best program I have seen for a long time. Just joining in with the discussion that was on the thread. I have particularly enjoyed it as I was a midwife in London in the seventies, cycling round on my bike round the Elephant and Castle but am also an expert on Triumph Doreen bras as it is what I have worn since the sixties!!! Shame I didn't buy the paper but I am not a fan.

Hey! in no way am I nit-picking I was just commenting that one of our special GNers nanapug had been mentioned and given her nationwide fame and it also lets other GPs know that GN is alive and kicking and having our thoughts taken seriously.
green shame they can't find information on chummy such a realistic character don't you think ?

Apparently, they can't find any information on Chummy (according to the Radio Times). Has anyone seen that? They're wondering if she actually existed

I`ve read that there`s another series planned, I do hope it`s true!

janepearce6, it was a wonderful series, and yes, I'm sure they got things wrong, but I think picking holes in television scripts is becoming a national sport. It didn' t stop 10 million viewers tuning in to the last one though.

Such a wonderful series - why nit-pick! I had my first child, admittedly not in the East End, but It was pretty accurate but such a delightful series - why criticise?

josie how daft am I ? I should have done that !!!

nanapug You are famous your comments have been discussed concerning the Triumph Bra worn in "Call the midwife" has a two page spread in Mail on Sunday they are writing about the the accusation's of error's that where out of tune era.Pages 34/35 in Femail

Thank you numberplease. xx

Can`t do the smlieys, but Greenmossgiel, xxxx

Thank God attitudes have changed so completely towards unmarried mothers. My mother never stopped censuring them yet when her favourite neice had a baby but no husband she said, "Well, it's different when it's your own family".
Astounding!

I often wonder if that young nurse got into trouble for that! She definitely WAS an angel!

Thanks goodness you had that cuddle green!

Pinkprincess - awful, indeed. I had my eldest daughter when I was 16. It was as you said, and every mother was called 'Mrs' - and when I corrected the nurse saying "No - Miss, not Mrs", she was quite taken aback at my nerve, I think! My baby was to be adopted. My mother and father had agreed that this was how it should be, and I don't remember being consulted. The day after I gave birth to my daughter, a young nurse brought her to me, saying "Here's your baby, Mrs S". I said that I wasn't allowed to have her, because she was to be adopted - my parents had stated that I shouldn't be allowed to get 'close' to her. The young nurse replied that my baby needed a cuddle from her mum....that was that - smitten! I fought tooth and nail to keep my daughter (literally, actually!) and she's now 45 and married with her own daughter. I consider myself to be so very lucky.

Pinkprincess, how sad for your sister,has she never tried to find her son?

When I trained as a midwife(did not practice though) and when I was having my own babies in 1969 and 1972 all the single girls were addressed as Mrs as well as the married ones.Some wore wedding rings while they were in hospital as they said they felt stigmatised without one.
My sister was an unmarried mother in 1968.My parents forced her to give her son up for adoption as it was ''for the best''.She cried for a week after she parted with him.She later married and had two daughters.Two years ago she became a great grandmother when one of her grandaughters had a baby boy.Her grandaughter was 18 the same age as her when she had her son.Her grandaughter is single and keeping her baby.It has brought it home to her how things have changed.She has never forgotten her baby boy who will be 44 this year.

I`ve lost my copy of the newspaper that me and my daughter were in, also on the front page, tried to get a copy of the photo from the newspaper concerned, but they don`t keep them for that long, surprising, I thought all papers had archives, it was only 1967! I got in touch with the local library, they had a copy, sent me a photo, but it was photo-copied and useless, very smudgy.

Oh how sad. I was a new year baby and was in the paper. My mum had had so many miscarriages she said if she had a baby that lived it would be on the front page of the papers, and I was! Tonight's episode was so sad, but I found it terribly moving. Last week's just made me feel miserable.

It wasn`t just in Bury where they had that rule then? So silly.

numberplease I did midwifery training at a well known London maternity hospital and I was working there on New Year's Day 1967.I remember the photographer coming to take photos of the New Year babies and one was born to unmarried mother.She and her baby were not allowed to be on the photos.

I`ve just seen last Sunday`s episode, always a week behind, that`s me! Wasn`t it a sad episode? Obviously the writers have read all the books in the trilogy, because the stories are intermingled.