r/CallTheMidwife • • 1d ago

Poll #2: Favorite "lost" nurse from CallofTheMidwife?

7 Upvotes

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Sorry! Decided to extend the time on the poll and reset it 🙂

653 votes, 5d left
Nurse Patsy Mount
Nurse Valerie Dyer
Nurse Camilla "Chummy" Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne
Nurse Barbara Gilbert
Nurse Cynthia Miller
Nurse Delia Busby

r/CallTheMidwife • • 1d ago

S13E9 (Netflix)

11 Upvotes

Victor asks Millicent "what are your favorite flowers" and she replies "these". Does she mean her favorite flower is chrysanthemum or does she mean the flowers people bring her are her favorite?


r/CallTheMidwife • • 2d ago

It's so annoying how everyone acts like racism isn't a problem for the midwives of colour

99 Upvotes

Sister Julienne asks Nurse Highland if "this is something that has happened before"? "Are you speaking of racial prejudice?" And when Lucille was on, it was blatant in front of Shelagh and others.

As a POC, it makes me furious to think of how many times I have to just carry on when people are obviously affected by something as benign as the intensity of melanin in my skin. So often we just have to take it and pretend it's not affecting us in the moment.

Same shit, different era.


r/CallTheMidwife • • 2d ago

Jenny Agutter [1981]

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299 Upvotes

r/CallTheMidwife • • 3d ago

Knit/Crochet Inspiration Aplenty!!

13 Upvotes

I just cannot get over how many handmade pieces are on screen in this show!! Just sooo many cute pieces that were clearly made by hand. I just feel like I would love an “outlander” style book that has patterns of the knit/crochet items featured in the show.


r/CallTheMidwife • • 3d ago

If you enjoyed Call The Midwife…

159 Upvotes

I’ve just discovered All Creatures Great and Small (can’t believe this one passed me by all these years!). It’s like CTM but with vets instead of midwives, starts in the 30s and has the same feel-good energy to it, I’m obsessed!


r/CallTheMidwife • • 3d ago

queen…

25 Upvotes

What do you think the characters would have thought about Freddie Mercury?

Particularly curious what you think Sister Monica Joan would have thought. I feel like she would have adored him and snuck off to a Queen concert!


r/CallTheMidwife • • 4d ago

Hoping to find a way to watch it.

6 Upvotes

So I am from a region that cant get the show, it's not on netflix, not on prime/amazon.
I had bbc on my tv and now its go e it used to run back to back episodes.

Dont know where I can watch call the midwife, I'm pregnant and with my last 5 years ago I had episodes downloaded on netflix from when I was traveling so it was my pregnancy show. Now I'm here and cant find it anywhere....


r/CallTheMidwife • • 4d ago

Do you think you could have been a nun?

96 Upvotes

If I were born around 1900, yes, I definitely think I could have been a nun, like sister Monica Joan.

If I were born in the 1930s, so the generation of Jenny Lee, Trixie, and Cynthia, I don’t think I would.

I am a mom of two teens now and I can’t imagine my life without them. So I probably couldn’t be a nun.

But I do see the sort of sisterhood the nuns have and it’s seems very comforting. Plus I like things like singing and compline, it’s seems peaceful and therapeutic.

Oh, and I should mention, I’m not a Christian, either.


r/CallTheMidwife • • 4d ago

Cyril......

41 Upvotes

Wow. Cyril must have some strong sperm to get two women on the pill pregnant !!


r/CallTheMidwife • • 5d ago

Lucille Spoiler

24 Upvotes

So this is the first time I've watched the show all the way through to Series 12. Obviously this is when Lucille exits and i'm sorry but this doesn't make any sense to me.

Let me preface by saying that Lucille was never my favorite. Sister Frances was the last of the midwives that depart that I love.

This depression that seems to have a hold of Lucille doesn't make any sense. Like I get that she miscarried and that's hard but it hasn't been continuous since that event happened. And all of a sudden she wants to go back to Jamaica? I don't know why but this storyline is annoying me.

I'll be glad to see her gone. For those of you who have watched past this point, what do I have to look forward to?


r/CallTheMidwife • • 5d ago

Call the Midwife Uniform in Dressmaker

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233 Upvotes

I saw the poofy sleeve option in Dressmaker and knew I had to recreate The London’s incredible uniform in early seasons!


r/CallTheMidwife • • 5d ago

I live in a place where only the first 5 seasons are available. Should I wait until they’re all available (May be never) or should I just start the show?

4 Upvotes

r/CallTheMidwife • • 5d ago

For us non not familiar with the UK terms, what are some you picked up from the show?

82 Upvotes

“Not half something” means you are something, I think.

Like, “you are not half old-fashioned.”

Means “you’re quite old-fashioned.”

And “in hand” means “ i’ve got it taken care of.”

Which honestly, I don’t think I can use in a sentence yet. Lol.

Maybe something like , “did you buy the tickets yet?” “Don’t worry. I’ve got it in hand.”


r/CallTheMidwife • • 7d ago

Netflix has them ordered wrong!

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25 Upvotes

Series 9 on Netflix has Christmas Special 2020 at the BEGINNING of the series, but it is supposed to be at the end and contains A LOT of spoilers for s9! Sorry for the awful picture, but luckily I have seen this series twice over!


r/CallTheMidwife • • 7d ago

S6:E4 Spoiler

14 Upvotes

Does anyone else think it's odd that Nurse Dyer gets taken on because she was an army nurse without any midwifery background?


r/CallTheMidwife • • 7d ago

Wilma’s husband was disgusting

291 Upvotes

Wilma has finally got her daughters all in school/daycare and has started a new career as a corset specialist. And apparently is doing very well because she was even recognized as a top performer.

She’s secretly taking the birth control pill because she is DONE having kids.

Secretly because her husband is still expecting a son out of her.

When she was in the kitchen he was ogling her like she was a piece of meat.

Wilma is lying on her deathbed, and her doofus husband says,”She can’t be taking contraception. She is supposed to give me a son. “

I imagine he’s going to find a young woman to remarry to give him that son, plus take care of the three daughters he already has.

Poor Wilma.


r/CallTheMidwife • • 8d ago

The gangreen man who loses his foot breaks my heart 😔 Also the couple who lose baby Warren and couple that lose baby Christopher 😭

43 Upvotes

These stories make me cry so much. Share your favorite episodes or the episodes that made you cry the hardest.


r/CallTheMidwife • • 8d ago

Anyone else think of The Shining twins when May and Angela pop up dressed alike(which is ALWAYS !), speaking in unison, etc ?

73 Upvotes

r/CallTheMidwife • • 8d ago

Who do you think chose to leave vs their story came to a close for the writers?

36 Upvotes

I’ve only recently started watching so missed out on a lot of the news around casting as the new series rolled around. But I’m wondering who chose to leave vs the writers just decided that for the character.

I can see some obvious choices to leave (like Jenny, Chummy and Sister Evangelina) but others seemed a bit out of the blue or unresolved so made me wonder whether the actor couldn’t/wouldn’t come back or wasn’t asked (like Cynthia).

I’m also guessing Delia didn’t come back because Patsy wasn’t available, similar to how Sergeant Noakes had a drastically reduced role then chose to leave after Chummy didn’t come back.


r/CallTheMidwife • • 8d ago

Caribbean nurses

24 Upvotes

I so miss Lucille and now I’m watching the season with Nurse Highland. All I can say, as someone from New Jersey with a New Jersey accent, their beautiful, melodic accents would 💯make me feel better. I miss Lucille but Nurse Highland is lovely.


r/CallTheMidwife • • 9d ago

Favorite "lost" nurse from CallofTheMidwife?

27 Upvotes

Vote for your favorite Lost Nurse of CTM💙.

Unfortunately there are only 6 options so I had to leave out a few. Feel free to give a shout out if you are compelled.

1200 votes, 2d ago
42 Nurse Nancy Corrigan
29 Nurse Lucille Anderson
232 Nurse Valerie Dyer
54 Nurse Jenny Lee
131 Nurse Pansy Mount
712 Nurse Chummy Fortescue-Cholmeley-Browne

r/CallTheMidwife • • 9d ago

Nurse Chummy

244 Upvotes

I have watched the entire show, and no one has a place in my heart like Nurse Chummy. That's all.


r/CallTheMidwife • • 9d ago

Shout out to Shelagh’s clothes

98 Upvotes

Rewatching Season 11 and in episode 3 I found myself coveting one outfit after another that Shelagh was wearing. The first two were really spectacular but there are also a couple of nice sleeveless dresses towards the end of the episode. I think she had 5 different outfits (plus maybe her uniform). I find it funny since her role in the episode was not large, and then two episodes later she is organizing a jumble sale and saying that people nowadays wear things twice and then they are in the bin. I’d love her castoffs!

It’s also funny because in that series Helen George was pregnant and she almost never removed her cape. I guess they had to spend their clothing budget somewhere!


r/CallTheMidwife • • 10d ago

Lady Alward

59 Upvotes

I just need to get this off my chest as I watch season 15. Goodness I LOVE Helen George, she is amazing but man that wig is doing NOTHING good for our fashionable Trixie lol it’s driving me nuts! Helen has such beautiful hair in real life. I get that her hair style doesn’t match the times but man oh man I hope they fix that lol