Call the Midwife

Yes I enjoyed it too. I'm surprised it has been criticised in the press.

I watched it too this evening, and although I haven't read the newspaper critiques, I've heard about them. And I cannot agree with them at all. the baby wasn't born with hypothermia - it would've been nice and warm in mum's tummy, just the cold air was too much of a shock to its system. I imagine being being tucked away and protected somewhat from the cold in the case is what feasibly revived it so is totally believable.

Yes, I too enjoyed the episode and am looking forward to the series.

This did sometimes happen in cold weather in home births. I have a cousin, alive and well born in similar circumstances and left near the oven in the kitchen in brown paper to be removed later only to wake and cry once she was warmed through. Nothing in CTM is historically inaccurate (although sometimes disjointed and sometimes not entirely chronologically correct) and will generally be taken from case notes and memories of older midwives/obstetricians. I think it is always appropriate for them to include social stories such as domestic violence because these types of health workers come across them more often than others and the patients often want someone to talk too. They would know much more about all types of abuse than say a dermatologist.

I remember very well that extremely severe winter which began on Boxing Day of 1962 and lasted nearly until Easter 1963 with no let-up in the freezing conditions. A younger friend asked me if there had really been a shortage of milk due to bottles being lost in the snow. To be honest, I don't remember that so, if it did happen, maybe it wasn't country-wide. I do remember having to walk about 3 miles to work and then home again at night on many occasions because the buses were so disrupted due to the ice and snow. There hasn't been a winter quite like it since. I was lucky: I had a nice warm home to go to with a mother who had a hot meal waiting for me. I can only imagine what it must have been like living in a caravan. As usual Call the Midwife brought me to tears.

Vicky , I was 6/7 and remember it all too well. My mother, pregnant with child 5 was exhausted and we were sent into childcare from September till March, in a home at the seaside. It was an awful place, we were beaten. And aunty visited us and gave us sweets which were taken from us, we never saw them. I remember the sea being frozen and the ink in our ink pots. It was my first year of primary school, I was far behind in reading when I came back. 

The seventh series of Call The Midwife will premiere on BBC One on Sunday January 21st at 8pm.

Trixie's a virgin!!!!!