Call the midwife

I got married in 1968 and has some primrose coloured sheets as a wedding present.

I wS birn in a private nursing home but my twin brothers were born at home - I saw the doctor bring them in his black bag.

The younger of the twins was born rain damaged and I wonder if that might have been different in hospital.

Is it supposed to be 1967?
Facts aren't exactly right, as always, but I guess to fit with their plot.
I doubt there were so many big prams in the streets. Comfifolda pushchairs were very popular and carrycots on wheels.
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I was pregnant in 1969 and gathered 2nd hand equipment. I should have started a props department. I still have a big silver cross pram circa 1970.
I frequently left it unattended with baby inside as I never heard of babies being stolen until a famous case. The shops had no space for prams.
I didn't like the circumcision scene - but it happened.
Wasn't it a bit OTT Yvonne being sent away to learn how to bond and feed her baby. Did that really happen?
I had a visit from an aged spinster health visitor about 2 weeks after DS1 was born. I hadn't a clue and neither had she. He was screaming having just been fed. She said he must still be hungry so had me spoonfeeding him with some formula donated by the company as I didn't possess a bottle. He wasn't hungry - he had tummy ache from guzzling too much. As soon as she'd left, he vomited everything up, Breast milk, formula the lot. He managed to grow up despite everything.

I was born in an NHS hospital. My parents had had to pay about £50 for a Nursing home when my DSis was born pre NHS.
My first and 2nd DC were both was born in hospital but the 3rd at home. 4th in hospital.

My parents got married in 1959 and got some coloured bed linen as wedding presents. It was exciting as all bedding had been white until fairly recently.

I think I must have missed something - when did Iris Buckle’s shop change from a haberdashery to a general store?

Also, the bed linen. Did so many people really have coloured bed sheets then? I only ever recall white or that candy stripe stuff until Bri Nylon sheets became a thing.

Why was Trixie so shocked at Yvonne leaving Melanie outside in her pram? I thought that too. I was a social worker in Birmingham at a bout that time and when home visiting it was standard practice for babies to be outside in their prams.

I was also - at the risk of getting shouted down - quite surprised at the calm acceptance of baby boy mutilation.

Yes, I was born at home, as was my brother, my sister, who is the eldest, was born in hospital. After ten days I started projectile vomiting, had an operation for pylori stenosis, and spent the next 3 months in hospital. My parents weren't allowed to visit. That's when they got the phone, so they could find out if I was still alive. I suppose I should be completely screwed up after such a start but I don't think I am.

Were any of you born at home?

I was born in a very small nursing home and was a forceps birth - doctor took the skin off my cheek, I still have the scar. My poor Mum, I think she really suffered. The doctor was still practising when I was about five, horrible pipe in his mouth all the time.

Dogsmother. I have mentioned before about the awful Dr Turner (actor.?. Stephen McGann). He is awful , can’t act and the dreadful expressions on his face make me shout at the telly. , He spoils it for me , i do like CTM , it’s slow and relaxing and nostalgic. I love seeing “Proper “ prams like I had for my three children including a big Silver Cross twin pram ,

I used to watch this when it first appeared but got bored with it after the second series.
I have just the comments on this thread and see that it is now set in the years I did my midwifery training so might start watching again

Phyllis has grown on me, she has definitely become kinder, more of a mother figure to the younger women. I love to see the homes, fashions, cars & even the prams of the era. In reality, even back then I’m sure the midwives would never have been able to spend so much time with each patient and one doctor alone couldn’t possibly have done all those home visits as well as running the surgery and delivering babies in the maternity unit but who cares it’s enjoyable Sunday evening viewing.

Jenny Agutter isn't being given a whole lot to do this series.

I love it, it's my little bit of escapism. When I moved I rehomed my amber glass jug and glasses set they use - and Trixie had one of my dresses on tonight!

I'm worried about Phyllis too, I think they've given her such a kind and caring personality.

I hope nothing awful happens to Phyllis next week.

That doctor is a bit slow. There was an episode only recently where a patient was coughing due to breathing in pigeon feathers. You'd think he would have remembered and put 2 and 2 together!
I think there were some attempts at addressing prejudices .... black, Jewish, homosexuals.

I still enjoy Call the Midwife, I like to see the clothes & homes of the era.

But then, I'm easily pleased..!!

I am so pleased someone has mentioned Dr.Turner, every week I watch the programme because it’s easy going lovely stuff. However……..as soon as I see this character, I find myself shouting at the tv, about this appalling chap and my dislike for him. It’s very unfair of me no doubt.

So relieved Cyril was happy about Lucille's pregnancy

Otherwise, not the best episode. Why was Trixie so shocked at Yvonne leaving Melanie outside in her pram? That was perfectly normal back in 1967.
And Nancy giving Matthew advice on how to woo Trixie was a bit fake and cringy.

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I was distracted by the wardrobe choices. Nancy looked like a pantomime dame in that yellow top.

Yes Nancy's wardrobe is not the best. But I think, going from her introduction last series, that she's meant to be a typical young girl who chooses fashion over what actually suits her. She doesn't suit fussy tops or very short skirts, but because they're in fashion she wears them anyway.

I was also intrigued by Sheila's pussy cat bow blouse and sensible slacks ensemble in madly clashing colours last night.

Dr Turner’s exaggerated facial expressions remind me of the similar antics of Greg Wallace on Masterchef.

It’s a programme that doesn’t test the brain, jogs along and requires little attention to the detail from me, unlike The Tourist straight after.

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Ive always thought he looked menacing and a bit wild.

Who?

Matthew, Fred Buckle, Cyril?

Oh, Doctor Turner probably!

I wonder, from the trailer for next week's episode, if Lucille is pregnant.

Ive always thought he looked menacing and a bit wild.

I watched the last two episodes back to back last night. I get what some of you are saying about the characters, though I like the simplicity of the story lines - they don’t demand any brain power of me.

I thought the story of the woman with the shop-lifting son was very poignant. Social workers were scary people in those days.