Call the midwife

Cutbacks, grumppa. I wonder who they've got lined up for scabies on The Archers?

So sad

Can the BBC only afford one medical adviser? After sepsis on CtM and the Archers, we now have scabies on CtM and daytime TV's Doctors

Oh, how could they?

Oh weep weep weep...that was so emotional..Barbara dying, the young boy in prison, really sad...

Watching Take the Midwife tonight and it never fails to bring tears to my eyes
Proper Sunday night telly

That was awful. I am in bits. It was so real. Poor Tom

When our first daughter was born we had moved away. First visit to my parents with our baby and I took her to see the family GP, she was the fourth generation of the family to be seen by him . He took on a partner and this doctor became the family GP to treat four generations of my family, from my parents, to my grandchildren .

We're the same Maggiemaybe! When my granny was terminally ill at our home way back in 1954, our doctor visited everyday even Sundays, until she died, sometimes after surgery in the evening, anytime really. He was a lovely man and gave her so much comfort, and, along with a wonderful anglican priest, saw her her out of this world with the minimum of anxiety and pain. Call the Midwife so reminds me of those days, yes you died of complaints that today you don't, but care was certainly in caring, which is sadly sometimes a little lacking these days!

Yes, those were the days when the GP knew you, although I must admit DH and I have both had very good treatment recently.

Oh, we used to have a family GP just like him (but with the extra bonus of a lovely Irish lilt). He knew us all and seemed genuinely to care about us. Sadly retired. DH and I are still with the same surgery, but never get the same doctor twice now.

Yes please, Dr Turner listens not greets with a hello and reaches for the scrip pad.

And a very good concerned GP; we'd all like one like him!

Hey, lay off Dr Turner, he's lovely, soppy, but lovely, along with wife Sheila!!!

I love watching Call the midwife on Sunday's, it's a nice gentle drama , I get weepy especially when a baby is born , but,, I can't stand Dr Turners face expressions , the same soppy , grinning face for every occasion ,
I love seeing the big coach built prams being pushed about by "extras". They were proper prams ,

One of my daughters gave birth to her two at Queen Charlotte’s. Had a lovely spacious sunny room/suite with space for husband to sleep too!
She was only in there for a few hours though.

Both mine were born in the60s - first in Queen Charlotte’s my ‘local’ maternity ( lovely place - in for 10 days!) and second at home with a lovely pair of midwives and GP coming to check me over. Daily visits for 10 days.

Aha. Thanks cold. I hadn’t noticed that there was a hospital - St Cuthberts in the story.

Where we lived in East London in the 1950s/60s - first babies were often born in hospital and subsequent ones at home unless there was a special reason for another hospital birth.

On Call the Midwife they seem to delver quite a few babies in the maternity home which is staffed by the community midwives whereas the complicated cases and c-sections are sent to "St. Cuthberts" in the story

I like the programme -gentle Sunday evening viewing - often very moving.
But, I find some things about it puzzling.
I lived in London during the 50s and 60s and my mother had all three of her babies in large hospitals. One hospital birth (1954) was in the heart of the East End - The Mile End Hospital. But hospital births don’t seem to happen in the East End of “Call the Midwife”. Maternity Homes are mentioned sometimes.
Does anyone else think this odd? Perhaps my mother was unusual in giving birth in hospital?

Perhaps someone else has commented on this earlier on this thread. But very few of the mums in labour are offered the gas and air or the pain relief injections. I had 3 babies between 1960 and 1967 and had pain relief with all three ( and appreciated it!) I really like the programme, there has been little worth watch, in my opinion, and with all the doom and gloom going on I need some lighter relief.

I remember in the 1980's when the trend was towards residents of 'mental hospitals' moving into care in the community there were numerous tales of elderly women who'd been incarcerated for decades because they'd had illegitimate babies.

I've also seen Victorian rolls for mental asylums where some inmates were deemed to be 'moral defectives'. Thank heavens times have changed.

I grew up with a girl who had 2 babies before she left school.
Roundabout the age of 15/16 she just disappeared.
Of course in those days nobody asked, did they. But looking back I'm sure all our parents knew.

I did mean the alarm on the engine! ?. I remember in Dixon of Dock Green the alarms on emergency vehicles were rather bell like.
Also, if someone had just come out of a burning building I’d have a sense of urgency rather than manners.
In all other circumstances I would use ‘excuse me ‘ of course.

who would say to an ambulance driver ‘ excuse me, can you help?
I would. What should I say?