Call the midwife

Trixie is wearing her cape a lot, plus ‘duster’ type coats, obviously hiding her bump.

Anyone watch last night?

I'm missing the sense of cameraderie amongst the residents of Nonnatud House. Tríxie, Jenny, Cynthia and Chummy used to be friends who went to dances and films together, had drinks and played music in their bedrooms and discussed their boyfriends. Barbara and Phyllis became very close, Sr Evangelina and Sr Monica Joan were old sparring partners, Lucille and Valerie became genuine friends and Sr Julienne was quite maternal towards Sheila.

Now they're really just a bunch of colleagues who get on well, but that's about it.

The new series is starting on Sunday. Something to brighten up the wintry Sunday nights. We

Did anyone else notice that when Trixie was doing a delivery her hands were behind the actress playing the patient, not inside the patient's gown,between her legs? You could clearly see the far side of the gown in front of her arms.

He did! I think he was gently encouraged to retire after that.

Oh my goodness SueDonim that would have been awful. Hope the GP survived!

You’ve triggered a memory for me, Purpledaffodil! I’ve now recalled that in 1980 we lived briefly in Derby, where unless there were complications, all second+ time mothers had to have home births due to lack of local maternity hospital beds.

One mum told me that she was reluctantly having her second baby at home and her rather elderly GP also came in to help the midwives. One of the MW’s suddenly said ‘Someone call an ambulance immediately!’ The poor labouring mum thought something dreadful was going wrong with the birth but in fact it was for her GP, who was having a heart attack on the floor in her bedroom!

Luckily, eventually all was well with mother, baby and GP.

I had a home birth in 1980 so they were still around. Best one of the three, the first and third being hospital births. DS 1 even slept through in the next bedroom and awoke in the morning to find a new baby brother who’d managed to pop to the shops to buy him a present. ?

I am fed up with it. It's too sugary sweet, and as Sue says, home births were not much of a thing in the 70s so how can it continue realistically?

I don't like Dr Turner and Sheila. Either the script is rubbish or Dr Turner can't act. I understand he's married to the script writer.

And there are only so many births I can watch and I think I've reached my limit now.

There! That's all my complaints.

I’m another who can’t visualise how CTM will continue into the 70’s. My sister and sister-in-law both had babies in 1971 and home births were just not a thing by then.

I did enjoy the Christmas special, though. It’s undemanding TV and sometimes you need that. Trixie does need a decent, strong storyline, I agree! The saintly Dr Turner is scary when he smiles. The Turners’ daughter don’t seem to be growing up, either. Timothy is at university now but the girls still appear to be at infant school stage. ?

This programme makes me laugh. I had my daughter in 1970. With possibly one exception, all the midwives and nurses I came across were horrible.

It's that doctor and his wife that make me nauseous. They're soooo wet! Also the saccharine voiceover at the beginning of the programme.

Calendargirl

Has anyone seen the trailer for the new series? There is a clip of Doctor Turner, he is grinning and winking.

He looks like a deranged serial killer!

Do you remember him dancing around with a skeleton to amuse the children in a past episode? He looked absolutely terrifying

I am fee!ing that many of the programmes need to be " put out to grass"asap. Call the Midwife, Death in Paradise, Endeavour to name a few. They have lost their sparkle and are going through the motions.

( However I do enjoy Call the Midwife if I'm honest.)

I hope they give Trixie an opportunity to move on with her life first. Not necessarily with a man, but just something. Across the ten years covered by the programme so far other young midwives have come and gone, moving on to new jobs and vocations, or travel abroad or marriage and children.

But Trixie is still plodding the same beat, coming home to tea with the nuns every evening, living like a student nurse.

She's an intelligent and beautiful woman who would surely have grown a bit restless by now and want to broaden her horizons a bit.

I sincerely hope, if they do develop the Matthew storyline, that it won't be another 'almost made it to the altar but changed her mind at the last minute' narrative. We had it with Tom and Christopher and a 3rd time would be boring.

I have always loved this series but I am a bit over it now, it seems a bit mawkishly sentimental and soppy these days. I think it has finally run its course.

Hellogirl1

Well, I loved it!

Me too ?
Though I was an emotional wreck by the end of it ?

Thats interesting to know Beswitched. Like others I was thinking they cannot take the series much past the 1970s.

I think the sisters moved out of London and began to work with drug addicts. I'm not sure what year, but sometime in the 70s.
I don't really see how they can go on with it for more than a couple of more series. By the 70s the vast vast majority of women were having their babies in hospital.

Well, I loved it!

Do you think they will take the series up to whenever Nonnatus closed? Im assuming it did at some point.

Has anyone seen the trailer for the new series? There is a clip of Doctor Turner, he is grinning and winking.

He looks like a deranged serial killer!

Helen George has just had a baby. There was certainly no sign of a bump in the Christmas special, but I suspect in the forthcoming new series she'll be carrying large bags and standing behind chairs a lot!

I forgot to say I even though I enjoyed this episode, it was a bit bland & boring. I loved Lucille's dress too, it was really elegant & she looked beautiful in it

my sister had glasses like Sheila's in the 60's and early 70's. She didn't get to choose them though, our mother did