1 00:00:34,132 --> 00:00:38,177 Our deepest desires are never simple. 2 00:00:38,177 --> 00:00:41,347 But the peace we find when they are met 3 00:00:41,347 --> 00:00:43,391 eclipses everything. 4 00:00:44,725 --> 00:00:46,519 Rhythm restored, 5 00:00:46,519 --> 00:00:49,522 a familiar face returned, 6 00:00:49,522 --> 00:00:53,234 the fresh new ticking of a clock once stopped. 7 00:00:54,819 --> 00:00:56,863 When wishes are granted, 8 00:00:56,863 --> 00:00:59,490 joy comes gently. 9 00:01:01,159 --> 00:01:05,288 And when it is not, we hang suspended, 10 00:01:05,288 --> 00:01:11,002 waiting for release in the space between the heartbeats. 11 00:01:19,427 --> 00:01:21,971 If you've been following the instructions on the pamphlet 12 00:01:21,971 --> 00:01:25,308 I had specially Roneoed for you before I left for South Africa, 13 00:01:25,308 --> 00:01:29,604 you shouldn't have any trouble at all with these new exercises. 14 00:01:29,604 --> 00:01:32,315 Good evening, Barbara! Better late than never. 15 00:01:32,315 --> 00:01:34,567 Retained placenta in Lisbon Buildings. 16 00:01:34,567 --> 00:01:36,235 In which case you're excused. 17 00:01:36,235 --> 00:01:38,196 And we're going to step to the side, 18 00:01:38,196 --> 00:01:40,823 swinging our heads down to the floor. 19 00:01:44,994 --> 00:01:46,537 Roses? 20 00:01:46,537 --> 00:01:48,331 I'm sorry they're pink. 21 00:01:48,331 --> 00:01:52,418 - They didn't have any red ones. - I prefer pink anyway. 22 00:01:52,418 --> 00:01:54,045 How are the children? 23 00:01:54,045 --> 00:01:56,547 They're looking after each other. 24 00:01:56,547 --> 00:01:59,133 We're all looking after each other, really. 25 00:01:59,133 --> 00:02:01,010 It's you I worry about. 26 00:02:01,010 --> 00:02:02,720 I know. 27 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,598 Is everything...as it was? 28 00:02:05,598 --> 00:02:07,433 There's been no further bleeding. 29 00:02:09,393 --> 00:02:11,729 I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, 30 00:02:11,729 --> 00:02:14,273 but visiting hour is finishing early tonight. 31 00:02:14,273 --> 00:02:18,069 - We've got ten minutes to go! - Then you can go and catch an early bus, 32 00:02:18,069 --> 00:02:21,072 or drop into the Flag and Whistle and have half a beer. 33 00:02:21,072 --> 00:02:22,990 I've a new patient to see to, 34 00:02:22,990 --> 00:02:26,536 and all my ladies need settling in for the night. 35 00:02:26,536 --> 00:02:28,830 That's us told, then. 36 00:02:28,830 --> 00:02:30,665 Will you come back tomorrow? 37 00:02:30,665 --> 00:02:33,668 I'd sleep in the corridor if they'd let me. 38 00:02:43,261 --> 00:02:46,430 The reason this exercise is called The Flamingo is because 39 00:02:46,430 --> 00:02:49,434 whilst one leg bears the entire weight of the body, 40 00:02:49,434 --> 00:02:51,686 the other is fully extended behind. 41 00:02:51,686 --> 00:02:54,480 It's not because we're all turning pink, then? 42 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,983 As you swing each leg behind you, 43 00:02:56,983 --> 00:03:01,070 fling the arms open like wings, 44 00:03:01,070 --> 00:03:03,322 pushing forwards with the bust! 45 00:03:03,322 --> 00:03:05,116 Oh, gosh! 46 00:03:08,911 --> 00:03:12,039 You might do better leaning on this chair. 47 00:03:12,039 --> 00:03:13,791 Barbara, would you come to the front 48 00:03:13,791 --> 00:03:15,960 and demonstrate to the rest of the class 49 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,671 whilst I check everybody's balance? 50 00:03:24,135 --> 00:03:27,805 I'd like the whole class to look at Barbara's lovely supple back 51 00:03:27,805 --> 00:03:29,599 and confident bust projection! 52 00:03:29,599 --> 00:03:32,393 This is at least partly because Barbara 53 00:03:32,393 --> 00:03:35,396 has come to the class wearing suitable undergarments, 54 00:03:35,396 --> 00:03:40,526 namely a soft, elasticated brassiere and sensible briefs. 55 00:03:40,526 --> 00:03:44,405 Anything more substantial than a lightweight panty corselet 56 00:03:44,405 --> 00:03:48,034 is going to seriously affect your ability to carry out these moves. 57 00:03:48,034 --> 00:03:50,411 Is that why you're out of breath, then? 58 00:03:50,411 --> 00:03:52,663 No, it is not! 59 00:03:57,710 --> 00:04:00,421 I really don't like putting you to trouble, Sister. 60 00:04:00,421 --> 00:04:03,382 I'm a nurse myself, and I know this isn't your job. 61 00:04:03,382 --> 00:04:07,178 If you're a nurse, you know not to argue with your superiors. 62 00:04:07,178 --> 00:04:09,639 And if you choose not to use a bed pan, 63 00:04:09,639 --> 00:04:12,308 you can't choose who wheels you to the lavatory. 64 00:04:12,308 --> 00:04:16,354 I don't choose not to. I just find it almost impossible... 65 00:04:16,354 --> 00:04:17,980 No upsetting yourself. 66 00:04:17,980 --> 00:04:22,485 Upsetting yourself is the worst thing you can do. So I forbid it. 67 00:04:24,862 --> 00:04:29,075 Fiery Jack! Active ingredient - capsicum pepper. 68 00:04:29,075 --> 00:04:32,328 My mother swore by it for her fibrositis. 69 00:04:32,328 --> 00:04:36,499 I haven't got fibrositis, Phyllis! I'm just unfit! 70 00:04:36,499 --> 00:04:39,418 And the rest of the class were just as bad. 71 00:04:39,418 --> 00:04:42,004 I don't think one of them had even looked at the exercises 72 00:04:42,004 --> 00:04:45,049 - in that pamphlet, never mind done any! - Did you? 73 00:04:45,049 --> 00:04:47,802 I was very busy in South Africa. 74 00:04:47,802 --> 00:04:50,138 Did you get any exercise on board ship? 75 00:04:50,138 --> 00:04:53,474 I played giant chess. Almost every afternoon. 76 00:04:53,474 --> 00:04:56,394 And I won a twist competition with the Chief Engineer. 77 00:04:56,394 --> 00:04:59,230 Well, that should've firmed your upper arms and trimmed your flanks. 78 00:04:59,230 --> 00:05:01,524 S'not a laughing matter, Barbara! 79 00:05:01,524 --> 00:05:03,985 I've let myself down and my class. 80 00:05:03,985 --> 00:05:05,695 And I'm going to put it right. 81 00:05:09,157 --> 00:05:11,909 See that Mrs Turner has all she needs, 82 00:05:11,909 --> 00:05:14,328 then I must talk to you about the sluice room. 83 00:05:14,328 --> 00:05:15,872 Yes, Sister Douglas. 84 00:05:17,874 --> 00:05:19,792 She's very kind. 85 00:05:19,792 --> 00:05:22,003 If you keep on the right side of her. 86 00:05:22,003 --> 00:05:26,007 Nurse? I'm really sorry, but I need the toilet and I'm too scared 87 00:05:26,007 --> 00:05:28,176 to move in case the bleeding starts again. 88 00:05:28,176 --> 00:05:30,470 Don't worry. I'll fetch you a bedpan. 89 00:05:32,096 --> 00:05:34,182 It's my third time in here. 90 00:05:34,182 --> 00:05:36,726 First time I managed to hang on for as long as six months. 91 00:05:36,726 --> 00:05:40,354 I'm only five months. But I'm hanging on, too. 92 00:05:57,288 --> 00:05:59,081 Ow! 93 00:05:59,081 --> 00:06:00,541 Ooh! 94 00:06:06,589 --> 00:06:09,759 Fantastic by Peggy Lee 95 00:06:13,346 --> 00:06:17,433 96 00:06:17,433 --> 00:06:20,561 97 00:06:20,561 --> 00:06:22,814 Why don't you join me? 98 00:06:22,814 --> 00:06:26,234 My wake-up routine can be your wind-down before bed. 99 00:06:26,234 --> 00:06:30,279 Trixie, I've been jumping through hoops all night for Sister Douglas. 100 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,657 I don't need any more exercise, thank you. 101 00:06:37,370 --> 00:06:39,914 Nurse Crane. 102 00:06:39,914 --> 00:06:43,084 Early bird catches the worm. 103 00:06:43,084 --> 00:06:46,087 Or, at least, it gets all the worms lined up and identifies 104 00:06:46,087 --> 00:06:49,507 which is likely to cause the most trouble. 105 00:06:49,507 --> 00:06:54,262 Drawing up this roster is like trying to plait soot. 106 00:06:54,262 --> 00:06:58,307 In which case, you'll be delighted to hear that we've received 107 00:06:58,307 --> 00:07:01,727 permission and funds to engage a new midwife. 108 00:07:01,727 --> 00:07:05,815 - We're going to advertise in the Midwives Chronicle. - Oh! 109 00:07:09,735 --> 00:07:12,780 - Morning, Marnie! - Oh, I was just going out. 110 00:07:12,780 --> 00:07:15,491 Oh, do have mercy on a poor, shattered midwife. 111 00:07:15,491 --> 00:07:17,869 I really don't want to have to bike all the way back 112 00:07:17,869 --> 00:07:20,955 with a delivery pack perched on my handlebars. 113 00:07:20,955 --> 00:07:22,915 Mandy, go back in. 114 00:07:25,501 --> 00:07:27,253 Do make sure you have 115 00:07:27,253 --> 00:07:30,506 enough shillings put by for the gas and electricity meter. 116 00:07:30,506 --> 00:07:32,800 A candlelit birth sounds romantic, 117 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,220 but I've attended several and they can be quite trying. 118 00:07:36,220 --> 00:07:38,181 Is the lavatory at the end of the corridor? 119 00:07:38,181 --> 00:07:40,933 You probably smelled it on your way in. 120 00:07:40,933 --> 00:07:43,728 I-I beg your pardon, Nurse, but I really need to go now 121 00:07:43,728 --> 00:07:45,354 or I'm going to be late. 122 00:07:45,354 --> 00:07:49,442 - I'm sorry, I didn't realise you had an appointment. - Well, I have! 123 00:07:49,442 --> 00:07:51,486 I'm due in court. 124 00:07:55,573 --> 00:07:58,826 I bought stuff on HP before me husband left. 125 00:07:58,826 --> 00:08:02,079 And once I realised he was never coming home, I ran up loans. 126 00:08:07,251 --> 00:08:11,005 I'm going before the magistrates cos I defaulted on the payments. 127 00:08:11,005 --> 00:08:14,759 - There are people you could've asked for help. - Well, I didn't, did I? 128 00:08:16,469 --> 00:08:19,305 Let me help you to get the children as far as the bus stop. 129 00:08:19,305 --> 00:08:22,642 It's the least I can do after I've made you late. 130 00:08:22,642 --> 00:08:26,354 I'm sorry, I-I shouldn't've snapped, Nurse. 131 00:08:26,354 --> 00:08:29,941 Well, I shouldn't've been such a bossy boots. 132 00:08:29,941 --> 00:08:32,068 I've been away for months, 133 00:08:32,068 --> 00:08:35,321 and I was probably enjoying myself a little bit too much. 134 00:08:39,033 --> 00:08:41,077 My kids always have hankies on 'em. 135 00:08:41,077 --> 00:08:44,580 One of the things my gran was strict about. 136 00:08:44,580 --> 00:08:47,250 I've got out of the habit of it myself. 137 00:08:47,250 --> 00:08:49,836 I never seem to have time for all the little things 138 00:08:49,836 --> 00:08:51,671 that make you look respectable. 139 00:08:51,671 --> 00:08:54,173 You look perfectly respectable to me. 140 00:08:56,926 --> 00:08:58,302 Good morning, Mrs Turner. 141 00:08:58,302 --> 00:09:00,847 I'm just going to ease you over into this chair 142 00:09:00,847 --> 00:09:04,350 so that we can tidy up, ready for Mr Kenley's rounds. 143 00:09:05,685 --> 00:09:06,894 All right? 144 00:09:10,815 --> 00:09:12,608 Oh. 145 00:09:12,608 --> 00:09:16,571 No. No... 146 00:09:16,571 --> 00:09:18,865 It's all right. 147 00:09:18,865 --> 00:09:22,118 Come and sit down. Come and sit down. 148 00:09:22,118 --> 00:09:24,662 I know Marnie Wallace is a churchgoer and I thought 149 00:09:24,662 --> 00:09:27,540 you'd want to be told that she might need some pastoral care. 150 00:09:27,540 --> 00:09:28,875 Thank you. 151 00:09:28,875 --> 00:09:32,253 I'm aware she's on her own, of course, and I saw her on Sunday, 152 00:09:32,253 --> 00:09:36,090 but she never mentioned anything about a court case. 153 00:09:36,090 --> 00:09:39,051 It's the shame, probably. The more ashamed people are, 154 00:09:39,051 --> 00:09:41,137 the less inclined they are to ask for help. 155 00:09:41,137 --> 00:09:43,931 Yes. And the more they need it. 156 00:09:43,931 --> 00:09:45,475 I'll call and see her. 157 00:09:48,060 --> 00:09:50,480 Patient is an elderly primigravida, 158 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,815 aged 36, 159 00:09:52,815 --> 00:09:56,319 almost five months gestation. 160 00:09:56,319 --> 00:09:58,988 Admitted after a moderate bleed, 161 00:09:58,988 --> 00:10:01,574 further bleeding earlier today, now ceased. 162 00:10:01,574 --> 00:10:05,411 Patient was successfully treated for pulmonary tuberculosis 163 00:10:05,411 --> 00:10:08,956 using triple protocol some four years ago. 164 00:10:08,956 --> 00:10:14,545 Why might that mean that conception was... 165 00:10:14,545 --> 00:10:16,130 unexpected? 166 00:10:19,175 --> 00:10:22,428 Damage to the pelvic organs, perhaps? 167 00:10:22,428 --> 00:10:26,766 Possibly leading to problems in carrying a pregnancy to term? 168 00:10:26,766 --> 00:10:31,437 I was diagnosed with scar tissue in the ovaries and fallopian tubes. 169 00:10:31,437 --> 00:10:33,397 But once I actually managed to conceive, 170 00:10:33,397 --> 00:10:35,942 there was no reason to anticipate further problems. 171 00:10:35,942 --> 00:10:40,113 - You seem to be very well informed, Mrs...? - Turner. - Ah. 172 00:10:40,113 --> 00:10:42,073 I'm a midwife by profession, 173 00:10:42,073 --> 00:10:45,451 and I know there are always new developments in obstetrics. 174 00:10:45,451 --> 00:10:48,788 If we could try to find out why this is happening... 175 00:10:48,788 --> 00:10:52,667 Pregnancies click, or they don't. 176 00:10:52,667 --> 00:10:54,669 Let's just watch 177 00:10:54,669 --> 00:10:57,171 and wait, 178 00:10:57,171 --> 00:10:58,464 shall we? 179 00:11:09,642 --> 00:11:11,561 Kiddies need somewhere to play, 180 00:11:11,561 --> 00:11:15,273 and now they've demolished the reservoir there's proper grass there 181 00:11:15,273 --> 00:11:17,817 and a little hut where they sell ice creams. 182 00:11:17,817 --> 00:11:20,194 I remember Tom saying something about it. 183 00:11:20,194 --> 00:11:22,405 Isn't there going to be a grand opening? 184 00:11:22,405 --> 00:11:23,990 Well, an opening. 185 00:11:23,990 --> 00:11:26,784 The Mayor's on his holidays, so I wouldn't call it grand. 186 00:11:26,784 --> 00:11:29,495 Violet's borrowed a maypole to do something with the Brownies, 187 00:11:29,495 --> 00:11:32,290 but the Cubs, they've gone to hell in a handcart 188 00:11:32,290 --> 00:11:33,958 since Nurse Mount went off. 189 00:11:33,958 --> 00:11:36,836 I could give a presentation with my Keep Fit Ladies. 190 00:11:36,836 --> 00:11:38,754 It would give us all such an incentive, 191 00:11:38,754 --> 00:11:41,090 and we'd draw quite a crowd with our leotards. 192 00:11:41,090 --> 00:11:43,468 Leotards? In a public park? 193 00:11:43,468 --> 00:11:45,845 Oh, Trixie, what would Sister Julienne say? 194 00:11:45,845 --> 00:11:48,556 If you aren't going to take keep fit seriously, Barbara, 195 00:11:48,556 --> 00:11:52,393 then you might as well give it up and run the Cubs in your spare time. 196 00:11:52,393 --> 00:11:54,145 I don't have any spare time. 197 00:11:54,145 --> 00:11:57,315 Why don't you take 'em on, Nurse Crane? 198 00:11:57,315 --> 00:12:00,777 Because I find small boys exasperating. 199 00:12:00,777 --> 00:12:02,320 And violent. 200 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,989 That's why a good Akela's so essential - 201 00:12:04,989 --> 00:12:08,284 to stop them turning into exasperating and violent men. 202 00:12:08,284 --> 00:12:10,745 And how's that going to be accomplished? 203 00:12:10,745 --> 00:12:12,580 By waving a magic wand? 204 00:12:12,580 --> 00:12:16,000 Ah! They sell whistles down the hardware shop. 205 00:12:21,047 --> 00:12:22,590 I just... 206 00:12:22,590 --> 00:12:25,968 I can't make ends meet, on just National Assistance. 207 00:12:27,887 --> 00:12:31,265 And now the courts are saying I have to pay back my debts in instalments. 208 00:12:31,265 --> 00:12:35,061 Would it help if I went through your bank account with you? 209 00:12:35,061 --> 00:12:39,565 I haven't got a bank account. My husband wouldn't give me permission. 210 00:12:39,565 --> 00:12:42,110 Hello, Marnie, sweetheart. 211 00:12:42,110 --> 00:12:44,278 Hello, Dot. 212 00:12:44,278 --> 00:12:46,989 - You her vicar? - Curate, yes. 213 00:12:46,989 --> 00:12:48,407 I'm her cousin. 214 00:12:48,407 --> 00:12:52,203 She asked me to be godmother to this little love, but I declined. 215 00:12:52,203 --> 00:12:55,289 Don't believe in God, or in the devil. 216 00:12:56,749 --> 00:12:58,209 Come here! 217 00:12:59,252 --> 00:13:01,587 Got pink icing all over your face. 218 00:13:01,587 --> 00:13:03,589 Looks like lipstick put on wrong. 219 00:13:04,924 --> 00:13:07,677 Hankie. Never go without one. 220 00:13:07,677 --> 00:13:09,637 Our grandma would be proud. 221 00:13:12,056 --> 00:13:14,225 There, that's better, isn't it? 222 00:13:14,225 --> 00:13:17,979 Anyway, it's really Master Kevin I've come to see today. 223 00:13:17,979 --> 00:13:20,314 Cos he's the birthday boy! 224 00:13:22,233 --> 00:13:24,318 Shall I unwrap it? 225 00:13:24,318 --> 00:13:26,529 - It's a cap gun. - Dot! 226 00:13:26,529 --> 00:13:29,031 I'm not celebrating Kevin's birthday today. 227 00:13:29,031 --> 00:13:31,033 I can't afford to buy him anything, 228 00:13:31,033 --> 00:13:33,786 and he's too little to know any better! 229 00:13:33,786 --> 00:13:36,789 - Is it that bad? - Yes, it is. 230 00:13:39,417 --> 00:13:41,335 Begging your pardon, Reverend, 231 00:13:41,335 --> 00:13:44,881 but Marnie knows me and my Eugene would bend over backwards to help. 232 00:13:44,881 --> 00:13:48,759 Dot! I don't want the kind of help you and Eugene are offering, 233 00:13:48,759 --> 00:13:51,387 do you hear me? I don't want it. 234 00:13:51,387 --> 00:13:54,765 But you need it, Marnie. You need all the help you can get. 235 00:13:54,765 --> 00:13:58,728 Go! Just go, Dot. Get out of my flat, and just leave us all alone. 236 00:14:03,733 --> 00:14:05,318 As it happens, 237 00:14:05,318 --> 00:14:09,280 internal examination has given me confidence 238 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,742 in a diagnosis of incompetent cervix. 239 00:14:12,742 --> 00:14:14,786 What does that mean? 240 00:14:14,786 --> 00:14:18,873 It means there's a reason why you keep losing all these babies. 241 00:14:18,873 --> 00:14:21,667 The neck of the womb lacks the muscularity it needs 242 00:14:21,667 --> 00:14:24,128 to hold everything in place. 243 00:14:24,128 --> 00:14:29,342 Nurse, are you able to recall the name for the treatment for this? 244 00:14:29,342 --> 00:14:34,180 Cervical cerclage, sir? Often referred to as a Shirodkar Suture. 245 00:14:34,180 --> 00:14:37,225 It's a stitch put into the cervix following threatened 246 00:14:37,225 --> 00:14:40,770 spontaneous abortion, usually removed in the 36th week 247 00:14:40,770 --> 00:14:43,648 to allow for natural labour and delivery. 248 00:14:43,648 --> 00:14:47,610 "Though she be but little, she is fierce!" 249 00:14:48,736 --> 00:14:51,114 Could you do that for me? 250 00:14:51,114 --> 00:14:53,825 I'm prepared to give it my consideration. 251 00:15:22,270 --> 00:15:24,397 I think this one will suffice. 252 00:15:24,397 --> 00:15:27,567 I should like the Scouting Association discount, please. 253 00:15:29,110 --> 00:15:31,779 Trixie chose the magazines. 254 00:15:31,779 --> 00:15:34,657 Nurse Crane sent barley sugars. 255 00:15:39,954 --> 00:15:43,249 I...I just spoke to the Sister. 256 00:15:44,667 --> 00:15:48,004 She told me you had a setback. 257 00:15:48,004 --> 00:15:50,089 It wasn't a very heavy loss. 258 00:15:50,089 --> 00:15:53,050 Enough to suggest the baby may no longer be alive, 259 00:15:53,050 --> 00:15:55,094 but not enough to know for certain. 260 00:15:56,345 --> 00:15:58,264 Do you want to know for certain? 261 00:16:01,684 --> 00:16:03,978 If I did... 262 00:16:03,978 --> 00:16:06,731 we may have to stop hoping. 263 00:16:06,731 --> 00:16:10,735 And we were without hope of any kind for years. 264 00:16:10,735 --> 00:16:13,404 We were happy enough before 265 00:16:13,404 --> 00:16:17,742 and we will be happy again, whatever happens. 266 00:16:17,742 --> 00:16:21,788 - We will, won't we? - Yes. 267 00:16:27,168 --> 00:16:29,504 Good news, Marnie! 268 00:16:29,504 --> 00:16:32,965 I've persuaded the council nursery to find afternoon places 269 00:16:32,965 --> 00:16:36,052 for Kevin and Mandy for the next six weeks. 270 00:16:36,052 --> 00:16:38,012 That came this morning. 271 00:16:38,012 --> 00:16:39,514 From the landlord. 272 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,936 The rent man's been knocking on the door for weeks, 273 00:16:44,936 --> 00:16:46,979 and I just haven't answered. 274 00:16:46,979 --> 00:16:48,481 "Notice To Quit"? 275 00:16:50,149 --> 00:16:52,276 I didn't read on after that. 276 00:16:53,569 --> 00:16:54,987 I didn't dare. 277 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:02,328 How long have I got? 278 00:17:02,328 --> 00:17:03,663 Two weeks. 279 00:17:15,508 --> 00:17:18,511 I thought Tatler was supposed to be a gossip mag. 280 00:17:18,511 --> 00:17:21,472 It's not gossip if you've never heard of any of the people. 281 00:17:21,472 --> 00:17:24,559 Mind you, you can't fault the soft furnishings in it, 282 00:17:24,559 --> 00:17:26,686 there's some magnificent pelmets. 283 00:17:26,686 --> 00:17:29,188 Any time you fancy swapping pelmets 284 00:17:29,188 --> 00:17:32,900 for "20 Exciting Things To Do With Liver" you're more than welcome. 285 00:17:38,990 --> 00:17:42,452 Every time those doors swing open, I look to see if it's that specialist, 286 00:17:42,452 --> 00:17:44,871 coming to tell me he'll do that operation. 287 00:17:44,871 --> 00:17:46,456 Still, 288 00:17:46,456 --> 00:17:49,459 at least there's no chance of us missing these babies moving, 289 00:17:49,459 --> 00:17:52,670 when we're lying here, nailed to the bed. 290 00:17:52,670 --> 00:17:55,298 I haven't felt mine move at all yet. 291 00:17:55,298 --> 00:17:58,176 I wouldn't expect to - it's too soon. 292 00:17:58,176 --> 00:18:00,261 It's too soon to hear a heartbeat either, 293 00:18:00,261 --> 00:18:03,973 - even if there's one there to be heard. - Just you wait. 294 00:18:03,973 --> 00:18:06,851 If they let you listen through the stethoscope, it sounds like 295 00:18:06,851 --> 00:18:10,313 a horse coming in over the finish line in a 3:15. 296 00:18:10,313 --> 00:18:12,899 It must be a magical thing when it's your own baby. 297 00:18:15,568 --> 00:18:18,696 What does it feel like when it starts to move? 298 00:18:18,696 --> 00:18:20,740 It's not like kicking. 299 00:18:20,740 --> 00:18:24,994 Well, maybe it feels like kicking later on, but I wouldn't know. 300 00:18:24,994 --> 00:18:28,080 You know what it does feel like, at six months, where I am now? 301 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:29,999 Like a goldfish. 302 00:18:29,999 --> 00:18:31,709 Yeah, like a little goldfish, 303 00:18:31,709 --> 00:18:33,961 nudging the side of his bowl with his little fins. 304 00:18:33,961 --> 00:18:36,422 "I'm in here, Mum!" 305 00:18:36,422 --> 00:18:38,966 You'll be feeling it yourself soon. I know you will. 306 00:18:38,966 --> 00:18:42,136 And yours will have its boots on, kicking up a storm. 307 00:18:47,725 --> 00:18:49,268 Excuse me, lovely. 308 00:18:54,982 --> 00:18:57,944 Hello, Marnie. This is a surprise. 309 00:18:57,944 --> 00:19:00,988 I'm sorry. I shouldn't have shouted. 310 00:19:02,281 --> 00:19:05,034 You don't mind us coming here, do ya? 311 00:19:05,034 --> 00:19:07,954 It's just that I remembered it was early closing at the beauty parlour. 312 00:19:07,954 --> 00:19:10,498 Ring the bell. Go on. 313 00:19:14,877 --> 00:19:18,631 There's a choice of two tunes, just flick a little switch. 314 00:19:18,631 --> 00:19:20,174 Dot... 315 00:19:21,843 --> 00:19:24,971 I've come to talk to you about your offer. 316 00:19:33,646 --> 00:19:37,400 I wish Eugene was here. He's at his salon, seeing a supplier. 317 00:19:38,568 --> 00:19:40,278 Sugar? 318 00:19:40,278 --> 00:19:41,863 One and a bit. 319 00:19:41,863 --> 00:19:44,907 - It's lumps. You have to have one or two. - Dot. 320 00:19:44,907 --> 00:19:46,993 Does Eugene know? 321 00:19:46,993 --> 00:19:48,828 About your offer? 322 00:19:48,828 --> 00:19:50,121 Yes. 323 00:19:53,416 --> 00:19:56,252 He never wanted to adopt... 324 00:19:56,252 --> 00:19:58,379 when we realised I was barren. 325 00:20:00,006 --> 00:20:03,009 He said he wanted his own flesh and blood or nothing. 326 00:20:04,510 --> 00:20:07,096 And I put it to him... 327 00:20:07,096 --> 00:20:10,475 that your little one was the next best thing. 328 00:20:10,475 --> 00:20:12,477 He knows I asked you. 329 00:20:12,477 --> 00:20:14,812 And he knows you said no. 330 00:20:16,606 --> 00:20:18,900 Well, as I said, 331 00:20:18,900 --> 00:20:20,860 I'm saying yes now. 332 00:20:20,860 --> 00:20:23,905 You can take it - as soon as it's born. 333 00:20:25,615 --> 00:20:29,327 We'll give it everything, Marnie. 334 00:20:29,327 --> 00:20:33,080 - It'll be the child we never had. - It'll be the child you do have, Dot. 335 00:20:34,457 --> 00:20:35,917 It'll be yours. 336 00:20:39,879 --> 00:20:44,133 The Midwives Chronicle's arrived, Sister. The advertisement's in. 337 00:20:44,133 --> 00:20:46,469 It feels rather exciting, really. 338 00:20:46,469 --> 00:20:50,431 As though we've launched our little ship on a new adventure. 339 00:20:50,431 --> 00:20:53,267 I can't shake off the feeling that this new person - 340 00:20:53,267 --> 00:20:57,939 whoever she may be - is really a replacement for Sister Mary Cynthia. 341 00:20:57,939 --> 00:20:59,774 Who could fill her shoes? 342 00:21:01,025 --> 00:21:05,530 She is a very particular and gentle spirit, 343 00:21:05,530 --> 00:21:08,616 and I suspect I miss her at least as much as you do. 344 00:21:08,616 --> 00:21:10,785 Then why aren't we trying to find her? 345 00:21:10,785 --> 00:21:13,121 Well, cos she isn't lost. 346 00:21:13,121 --> 00:21:16,332 She was very unwell when she was returned to the Mother House, 347 00:21:16,332 --> 00:21:20,545 and since you reported that she was not there, Mother Jesu Emmanuel 348 00:21:20,545 --> 00:21:24,674 informed me that she has been sent to a place of greater safety. 349 00:21:24,674 --> 00:21:27,552 Sister Mary Cynthia is a person, not a parcel. 350 00:21:27,552 --> 00:21:30,763 She shouldn't be "returned" or "sent" anywhere. 351 00:21:30,763 --> 00:21:33,558 She should be acting of her own free will. 352 00:21:33,558 --> 00:21:36,477 She was in no fit state to do so. 353 00:21:36,477 --> 00:21:40,189 If you had seen her, you would believe me when I say that. 354 00:21:40,189 --> 00:21:43,734 I don't disbelieve you. I just need to know she's all right. 355 00:21:43,734 --> 00:21:46,988 Until Sister Mary Cynthia is well enough to choose 356 00:21:46,988 --> 00:21:51,325 to make contact with us herself, we must treat her with the respect 357 00:21:51,325 --> 00:21:55,371 we would show to anyone else who isn't well. 358 00:21:55,371 --> 00:21:58,833 Especially if the illness is a mental one. 359 00:22:04,338 --> 00:22:05,756 Mrs Wallace? 360 00:22:10,470 --> 00:22:12,221 I've sorted everything out. 361 00:22:12,221 --> 00:22:14,390 I'd be pleased... 362 00:22:14,390 --> 00:22:16,768 if you weren't crying as you said that. 363 00:22:30,907 --> 00:22:33,034 What you playing at, Fred Buckle? 364 00:22:33,034 --> 00:22:36,704 I thought of the perfect way to get everybody down the new playground, 365 00:22:36,704 --> 00:22:38,498 on the day of the opening. 366 00:22:38,498 --> 00:22:40,750 "Spectacular Chariot Race 367 00:22:40,750 --> 00:22:43,961 "From Market Cross to Reservoir Rec. 368 00:22:43,961 --> 00:22:46,464 "Prams, carts, wheelbarrows. 369 00:22:46,464 --> 00:22:49,801 "No conveyance too humble or too grand!" 370 00:22:49,801 --> 00:22:51,552 Is that what all this is, then? 371 00:22:51,552 --> 00:22:55,348 Yeah, well...it's to give people ideas. Look! 372 00:22:55,348 --> 00:22:56,724 Look. 373 00:22:56,724 --> 00:22:59,644 "Bigger than Ben Hur!" 374 00:22:59,644 --> 00:23:02,605 I'd better start stocking Roman helmets, then. 375 00:23:06,275 --> 00:23:09,654 I've never come across a case quite like it. 376 00:23:09,654 --> 00:23:11,656 Mrs Wallace has made up her mind, 377 00:23:11,656 --> 00:23:14,617 and seems to believe that God approves of her actions. 378 00:23:14,617 --> 00:23:17,620 If I may venture an observation, 379 00:23:17,620 --> 00:23:22,834 when people seek the approval of the Almighty, it is generally because 380 00:23:22,834 --> 00:23:25,086 they fear they will not get it. 381 00:23:25,086 --> 00:23:28,673 Sister, you know as well as I do that many poor women have given 382 00:23:28,673 --> 00:23:31,843 children they cannot feed to relatives better placed to do so. 383 00:23:31,843 --> 00:23:34,345 And we have never condemned them. 384 00:23:34,345 --> 00:23:37,473 It happens with slightly older children. But I can't remember 385 00:23:37,473 --> 00:23:39,559 it ever happening with such a new-born. 386 00:23:39,559 --> 00:23:42,395 Nurse Franklin, we look after mothers giving new-borns 387 00:23:42,395 --> 00:23:45,606 - up for adoption every week. - And not many of them would 388 00:23:45,606 --> 00:23:48,359 if society gave them much choice in the matter. 389 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,612 I've mopped up more tears and dried up more milk supplies 390 00:23:51,612 --> 00:23:53,781 than you can shake a stick at. 391 00:23:53,781 --> 00:23:58,453 Adoption is always a very delicate and complicated issue. 392 00:23:59,912 --> 00:24:02,999 I was adopted myself, when I was two months old. 393 00:24:05,460 --> 00:24:10,089 Well, I'm sure that will make you much more sensitive 394 00:24:10,089 --> 00:24:13,217 - to Mrs Wallace's situation. - I hope so. 395 00:24:13,217 --> 00:24:15,845 I don't know what happened when I was born. 396 00:24:15,845 --> 00:24:18,222 But my adoptive parents were wonderful, 397 00:24:18,222 --> 00:24:21,184 and I've never doubted that my mother did her best for me. 398 00:24:21,184 --> 00:24:24,312 And we'll do our best for this poor mother. 399 00:24:24,312 --> 00:24:27,648 Every care taken and no questions asked. 400 00:24:32,820 --> 00:24:34,655 I know that landlord. 401 00:24:35,990 --> 00:24:39,285 He terrorised me and Dot when we were first married. 402 00:24:39,285 --> 00:24:40,953 Gives me quite a thrill, 403 00:24:40,953 --> 00:24:44,332 writing him a cheque with my gold-nibbed fountain pen. 404 00:24:44,332 --> 00:24:47,168 You remind me of that nursery rhyme, 405 00:24:47,168 --> 00:24:49,879 "The king was in his counting house." 406 00:24:49,879 --> 00:24:52,215 I shall have to brush up on my nursery rhymes. 407 00:24:54,217 --> 00:24:56,385 It'll be all hands on deck in a minute. 408 00:24:56,385 --> 00:24:59,222 I called in at the furniture shop, they're delivering a nice roll 409 00:24:59,222 --> 00:25:02,350 of lino and a brand-new mattress as we speak. 410 00:25:02,350 --> 00:25:03,976 The van's pulling up already. 411 00:25:03,976 --> 00:25:06,145 I don't need a new mattress, Dot. 412 00:25:06,145 --> 00:25:08,981 Marnie, the one you've got sags in the middle 413 00:25:08,981 --> 00:25:11,651 like Old Nick's hammock! 414 00:25:11,651 --> 00:25:14,445 I still wish you were coming to have the baby at our house. 415 00:25:15,822 --> 00:25:19,117 But this is your home. 416 00:25:19,117 --> 00:25:22,411 And whatever you want, you can have. 417 00:25:22,411 --> 00:25:24,872 You can even have a say in naming it. 418 00:25:24,872 --> 00:25:26,541 No. 419 00:25:26,541 --> 00:25:28,167 It'll be your baby. 420 00:25:30,336 --> 00:25:32,713 I like Andrew for a boy. 421 00:25:32,713 --> 00:25:35,383 Same as Prince Andrew. 422 00:25:35,383 --> 00:25:38,177 And something ending in A for a girl. 423 00:25:44,058 --> 00:25:48,896 I think it's starting. I was sick with Kevin and with Mandy. 424 00:25:48,896 --> 00:25:51,524 Do you want me to ring Nonnatus House? 425 00:25:58,322 --> 00:26:01,075 And skip, skip, step to the side, 426 00:26:01,075 --> 00:26:03,369 skip, skip, step to the side. 427 00:26:03,369 --> 00:26:05,955 And if you bump into somebody, just keep going. 428 00:26:12,628 --> 00:26:14,505 Pack, alert! 429 00:26:16,382 --> 00:26:19,177 I thought you were coming earlier, Nurse Crane. 430 00:26:19,177 --> 00:26:20,803 We were delayed. 431 00:26:20,803 --> 00:26:22,889 I thought it best to spend some time 432 00:26:22,889 --> 00:26:26,100 revising basic commands and responses. 433 00:26:26,100 --> 00:26:29,145 I had an aunt with half a dozen Sheltie pups, 434 00:26:29,145 --> 00:26:31,397 she took a similar tack with them. 435 00:26:31,397 --> 00:26:34,650 Well, you've still to convince me that mixing the sexes up 436 00:26:34,650 --> 00:26:36,360 around the maypole will work. 437 00:26:39,238 --> 00:26:41,282 Pack, at ease. 438 00:26:45,495 --> 00:26:49,749 I've just found a blackcurrant jelly and a tin of evap on the step. 439 00:26:49,749 --> 00:26:53,252 Another kindly patient must've put them there after Mrs Penny left. 440 00:26:53,252 --> 00:26:55,755 She says there's a hotpot in the oven, 441 00:26:55,755 --> 00:26:58,174 and she's coming back later, for Angela's bedtime. 442 00:26:58,174 --> 00:27:02,678 - No prizes for guessing what's for pudding! - Dad. 443 00:27:02,678 --> 00:27:05,640 You don't have to pretend to be jolly all the time. 444 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,143 You don't have to pretend that nothing's happening. 445 00:27:09,143 --> 00:27:12,146 With your next pain, I want you to push with all your strength. 446 00:27:12,146 --> 00:27:14,190 Really show me what you can do. 447 00:27:18,736 --> 00:27:22,323 No noise, Marnie. Save your energy for that push. 448 00:27:22,323 --> 00:27:24,575 Help! Help! 449 00:27:32,125 --> 00:27:34,836 It's like it doesn't want to be born, Nurse. 450 00:27:34,836 --> 00:27:36,754 All right, sweetie. 451 00:27:36,754 --> 00:27:38,756 We're going to get you some help. 452 00:27:41,008 --> 00:27:44,303 Dot, could you telephone Poplar 491, 453 00:27:44,303 --> 00:27:47,306 and say Doctor Turner and another midwife are needed at this address 454 00:27:47,306 --> 00:27:49,350 for an assisted delivery? 455 00:27:49,350 --> 00:27:52,478 - Will you be all right on your own? - Absolutely we will. 456 00:27:59,652 --> 00:28:02,864 Dad, I know it makes sense to shield Angela 457 00:28:02,864 --> 00:28:04,866 but it doesn't make sense to shield me. 458 00:28:06,451 --> 00:28:07,743 I'm sorry, Tim. 459 00:28:09,162 --> 00:28:12,540 But we're just marking time and waiting. 460 00:28:12,540 --> 00:28:15,918 For all we know, there might not be anything to shield you from. 461 00:28:17,795 --> 00:28:19,547 Have you done your homework? 462 00:28:19,547 --> 00:28:21,841 I do it every night when you're at the hospital. 463 00:28:23,092 --> 00:28:26,095 Maybe when I'm 18 we can go to the pub and have 464 00:28:26,095 --> 00:28:28,514 - a proper conversation. - Go to the pub? 465 00:28:28,514 --> 00:28:30,933 That's where men go to talk, isn't it? 466 00:28:30,933 --> 00:28:33,186 I've only got three more years to wait. 467 00:28:40,943 --> 00:28:42,987 Hello, Turner. 468 00:28:42,987 --> 00:28:44,489 Sister Winifred. 469 00:28:45,531 --> 00:28:47,450 I see. 470 00:28:47,450 --> 00:28:51,788 Yes, of course, I'll be there straight away. Thank you. Goodbye. 471 00:28:54,582 --> 00:28:56,584 I have to go out to a case, son. 472 00:28:58,085 --> 00:28:59,337 I'm sorry. 473 00:29:04,217 --> 00:29:06,093 How are we getting along? 474 00:29:06,093 --> 00:29:08,971 Baby seems to be in a good anterior position, but Mrs Wallace 475 00:29:08,971 --> 00:29:11,891 has been in the second stage for a couple of hours without progress. 476 00:29:11,891 --> 00:29:14,060 - She's very tired. - I'll examine her. 477 00:29:15,812 --> 00:29:18,064 But let's prepare for forceps. 478 00:29:36,082 --> 00:29:40,002 Good evening, Master Turner. What are you doing here? 479 00:29:40,002 --> 00:29:43,881 I think a policeman would describe me as loitering with intent. 480 00:29:43,881 --> 00:29:46,175 Mum won't have any visitors if I don't go in, 481 00:29:46,175 --> 00:29:49,303 - but no-one under 16 is allowed. - Well, no-one's been asked to show 482 00:29:49,303 --> 00:29:52,098 their birth certificate while I've been here. 483 00:29:54,976 --> 00:30:00,565 Now, once we're all set, I'll need you to push with each contraction. 484 00:30:00,565 --> 00:30:01,983 I'm tired of pushing. 485 00:30:01,983 --> 00:30:04,485 But the difference now, Marnie, is that you'll be pushing, 486 00:30:04,485 --> 00:30:06,154 and Doctor will be pulling. 487 00:30:06,154 --> 00:30:08,865 You'll have your baby in your arms before you know it. 488 00:30:08,865 --> 00:30:11,617 You can push with the next one, Marnie. Save your strength. 489 00:30:11,617 --> 00:30:13,286 First blade. 490 00:30:14,495 --> 00:30:16,038 And the second. 491 00:30:18,166 --> 00:30:20,585 Contraction. 492 00:30:20,585 --> 00:30:23,629 Deep breath and push! 493 00:30:23,629 --> 00:30:26,299 Push, Marnie, push! 494 00:30:28,301 --> 00:30:31,762 - Come on! Come on, girl. - You can do it! 495 00:30:34,140 --> 00:30:37,185 - And again. - You're doing so, so well, Marnie. 496 00:30:41,731 --> 00:30:44,442 - Head's on the way! - Nearly there! 497 00:30:54,494 --> 00:30:56,537 Push now! 498 00:30:56,537 --> 00:31:01,167 - Keep it coming, Marnie! Keep it coming! - Good girl! 499 00:31:01,167 --> 00:31:03,628 That's it! That's it! 500 00:31:03,628 --> 00:31:05,630 That's it! 501 00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:09,342 Well done. 502 00:31:09,342 --> 00:31:11,052 Well done, Marnie. 503 00:31:17,058 --> 00:31:18,434 It's a boy. 504 00:31:25,024 --> 00:31:27,443 Did you hear that? 505 00:31:27,443 --> 00:31:28,653 Thank you. 506 00:31:30,279 --> 00:31:31,697 Thank you. 507 00:31:36,494 --> 00:31:39,455 He's a man, he doesn't find it easy to talk about his feelings. 508 00:31:39,455 --> 00:31:41,707 But he's also a doctor. 509 00:31:41,707 --> 00:31:44,961 You'd think he'd find it easier to talk about this than most men. 510 00:31:44,961 --> 00:31:47,046 Timothy, does it not occur to you 511 00:31:47,046 --> 00:31:50,174 that that's why he can't discuss things? 512 00:31:50,174 --> 00:31:53,010 He knows what could happen. And so do I. 513 00:31:55,888 --> 00:31:59,517 He's going to look like a prize fighter by tomorrow. 514 00:31:59,517 --> 00:32:04,814 I predict at least one black eye and very possibly two. 515 00:32:04,814 --> 00:32:06,899 I'm sorry, soldier. 516 00:32:06,899 --> 00:32:10,278 Time for a little someone's wash and brush up! 517 00:32:10,278 --> 00:32:13,030 Let's introduce him to his mother first. 518 00:32:16,868 --> 00:32:18,911 Give him to Dot. 519 00:32:22,623 --> 00:32:24,500 Give him to her. 520 00:32:35,636 --> 00:32:37,346 Oh, look at you. 521 00:32:38,639 --> 00:32:43,811 Look at you, looking at me, as if to say, 522 00:32:43,811 --> 00:32:46,063 "How did I get here?" 523 00:32:48,024 --> 00:32:50,902 It's been ever such a long, long journey. 524 00:32:50,902 --> 00:32:53,196 But you're here now. 525 00:32:55,448 --> 00:32:57,074 Sshhh. 526 00:33:04,999 --> 00:33:06,793 What's happening? 527 00:33:06,793 --> 00:33:09,587 I'm putting this Nil-By-Mouth sign over your bed, Mrs Venables, 528 00:33:09,587 --> 00:33:12,381 because in the morning you're going to be having an operation. 529 00:33:12,381 --> 00:33:14,217 Are they going to put that stitch in? 530 00:33:14,217 --> 00:33:16,636 Mr Kenley has decided you're a prime candidate 531 00:33:16,636 --> 00:33:18,638 for cervical cerclage. 532 00:33:18,638 --> 00:33:22,308 Nurse Busby will pop by in a few minutes to help you to prepare. 533 00:33:29,690 --> 00:33:33,778 Hello, son. Mrs Penny's gone. 534 00:33:33,778 --> 00:33:35,905 She told me where you were headed. 535 00:33:37,406 --> 00:33:38,908 Thank you. 536 00:33:38,908 --> 00:33:40,576 I thought you might be angry. 537 00:33:41,786 --> 00:33:44,330 Some rules are worth breaking. 538 00:33:44,330 --> 00:33:48,501 Others, you are going to have to stick to for a while. 539 00:33:48,501 --> 00:33:50,962 Like not going to the pub. 540 00:33:50,962 --> 00:33:54,006 - Beer? - To be precise, two bottles of Pale Ale 541 00:33:54,006 --> 00:33:57,844 and a packet of pork scratchings. 542 00:34:02,723 --> 00:34:05,017 Are you going to stay with them tonight? 543 00:34:05,017 --> 00:34:07,061 Absolutely. 544 00:34:07,061 --> 00:34:09,939 Marnie's had quite a rough time, 545 00:34:09,939 --> 00:34:13,276 and baby might be grisly because of his sore head. 546 00:34:14,861 --> 00:34:17,363 I have to go home and tell my husband. 547 00:34:19,907 --> 00:34:23,661 We'll come back to get the baby in the morning, in the car. 548 00:34:25,288 --> 00:34:28,040 We can bring his carrycot. 549 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,751 All his lovely new clothes. 550 00:34:32,962 --> 00:34:35,423 We'll be a family from the off, then. 551 00:34:37,508 --> 00:34:38,885 Poor sweet. 552 00:34:43,055 --> 00:34:46,058 Are you sure you don't want to see baby? 553 00:34:46,058 --> 00:34:48,519 Sister Winifred's about to give him a bottle, 554 00:34:48,519 --> 00:34:51,147 but I could bring him in here just so you could have a peep. 555 00:34:52,565 --> 00:34:54,525 I want him christened. 556 00:34:54,525 --> 00:34:55,985 As soon as possible. 557 00:34:55,985 --> 00:34:59,697 Baby's not in any danger, Marnie. He's just a little bruised. 558 00:34:59,697 --> 00:35:02,742 You'd feel reassured if you just took a look at him. 559 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,746 You could give him his bottle yourself, if you'd like to? 560 00:35:06,746 --> 00:35:09,624 I just want him christened. 561 00:35:09,624 --> 00:35:11,584 First thing in the morning. 562 00:35:15,713 --> 00:35:18,090 Dad, that was miles off bull's-eye. 563 00:35:30,770 --> 00:35:34,857 Dad, thanks - for this. 564 00:35:34,857 --> 00:35:36,818 Tim... 565 00:35:36,818 --> 00:35:39,654 whatever happens with this baby, 566 00:35:39,654 --> 00:35:42,073 family life won't change. 567 00:35:42,073 --> 00:35:44,242 But I'll change. 568 00:35:44,242 --> 00:35:47,829 You've been changing for 15 years. 569 00:35:47,829 --> 00:35:49,789 And I love you just the same. 570 00:36:02,176 --> 00:36:04,303 Nurse! 571 00:36:04,303 --> 00:36:06,139 Nurse! 572 00:36:06,139 --> 00:36:07,765 Something's happening! 573 00:36:07,765 --> 00:36:09,350 Stay where you are, Mrs Venables! 574 00:36:09,350 --> 00:36:12,687 No! No! I'm supposed to be having my operation this morning! 575 00:36:12,687 --> 00:36:15,940 - Is something wrong? - I think she's in labour. 576 00:36:15,940 --> 00:36:19,026 Not again, not again. 577 00:36:19,026 --> 00:36:22,447 Make it stop! Make it stop! 578 00:36:22,447 --> 00:36:25,741 Make it stop! Please! 579 00:36:29,287 --> 00:36:32,498 In the name of God... 580 00:36:32,498 --> 00:36:35,710 the Father, the Son 581 00:36:35,710 --> 00:36:37,378 and the Holy Spirit. 582 00:36:39,005 --> 00:36:41,215 - Amen. - Amen. 583 00:36:42,550 --> 00:36:46,971 Marnie, I'm going to say the godparent's responses. 584 00:36:46,971 --> 00:36:51,267 But it is usual for the mother to hold her baby until that point. 585 00:37:04,238 --> 00:37:06,949 There you go. Sh... 586 00:37:10,328 --> 00:37:14,040 Please don't think I don't love him, Mr Hereward. 587 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,542 I've never doubted that for a single moment. 588 00:37:19,796 --> 00:37:23,549 You only have to be brave a little bit longer. 589 00:37:23,549 --> 00:37:25,343 It'll be over very quickly. 590 00:37:25,343 --> 00:37:27,303 I don't want it to be over! 591 00:37:27,303 --> 00:37:30,932 - Lean into me, Gloria. Do as Sister says. - I don't want to push! 592 00:37:36,437 --> 00:37:38,940 - Good girl. - No... 593 00:37:41,901 --> 00:37:43,736 Name this child. 594 00:37:46,739 --> 00:37:48,491 Andrew...? 595 00:37:50,743 --> 00:37:53,538 Andrew Thomas. 596 00:37:53,538 --> 00:37:55,081 After the reverend. 597 00:38:05,007 --> 00:38:07,426 Andrew Thomas, 598 00:38:07,426 --> 00:38:10,596 I baptise thee in the name of the Father, 599 00:38:10,596 --> 00:38:12,890 and of the Son, 600 00:38:12,890 --> 00:38:14,892 and of the Holy Ghost. 601 00:38:16,227 --> 00:38:17,437 Amen. 602 00:38:19,063 --> 00:38:20,440 Amen. 603 00:38:27,155 --> 00:38:28,614 Good girl. 604 00:38:31,409 --> 00:38:33,369 Soon this will all be over. 605 00:38:36,497 --> 00:38:38,624 And there'll be no more pain. 606 00:38:57,351 --> 00:39:00,563 - Is it alive? - No. 607 00:39:00,563 --> 00:39:02,023 No, dear. 608 00:39:03,566 --> 00:39:05,109 I'm sorry. 609 00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:11,908 You see to this, Nurse. 610 00:39:15,453 --> 00:39:17,997 Mrs Venables and I can manage on our own now. 611 00:39:23,085 --> 00:39:25,421 Noooo! 612 00:39:28,257 --> 00:39:31,469 I'll pop to the kitchen and prepare a bottle for Master Andrew. 613 00:39:34,222 --> 00:39:37,308 Unless you want to try feeding him yourself? 614 00:39:39,435 --> 00:39:41,104 I don't want him messed about. 615 00:39:41,104 --> 00:39:42,647 Of course. 616 00:39:42,647 --> 00:39:44,107 Morning. 617 00:39:46,234 --> 00:39:47,777 Is something wrong? 618 00:39:47,777 --> 00:39:52,365 No. Marnie just wanted the baby to be baptised. 619 00:39:52,365 --> 00:39:54,408 I don't believe in any of that. 620 00:39:54,408 --> 00:39:56,327 That's why I did it. 621 00:39:58,538 --> 00:40:01,415 He's called Andrew Thomas. 622 00:40:09,632 --> 00:40:11,259 You can take him now. 623 00:40:18,683 --> 00:40:20,351 What will happen to my baby? 624 00:40:20,351 --> 00:40:23,020 Don't you worry about that now. 625 00:40:23,020 --> 00:40:26,190 You leave that to us - that's what we're here for. 626 00:40:26,190 --> 00:40:28,818 - No, I wanted to see it! - I know. 627 00:40:30,528 --> 00:40:32,196 But it wouldn't be wise. 628 00:40:39,412 --> 00:40:41,080 You can cry if you want to. 629 00:40:43,833 --> 00:40:46,169 There will be better days than this. 630 00:40:59,140 --> 00:41:02,685 If these are the best interview candidates the Midwives Chronicle 631 00:41:02,685 --> 00:41:06,731 can deliver to our door, I have to say I fear for our profession. 632 00:41:06,731 --> 00:41:10,276 Is there anyone on the list you feel we really shouldn't see? 633 00:41:10,276 --> 00:41:14,238 Mantlewood, Geoffrey Arnold rather leaps off the page. 634 00:41:14,238 --> 00:41:17,074 Yes. He would appear to be a man. 635 00:41:17,074 --> 00:41:19,577 But he's highly qualified as a district nurse. 636 00:41:19,577 --> 00:41:23,873 Sister Julienne, more than half of our work is midwifery. 637 00:41:23,873 --> 00:41:26,167 A field in which men are not currently 638 00:41:26,167 --> 00:41:28,419 permitted to train or qualify. 639 00:41:29,921 --> 00:41:35,718 I would also like to draw your attention to Gretchen Elise Fruman, 640 00:41:35,718 --> 00:41:40,515 who appears to spring from somewhere called Vermillion, South Dakota. 641 00:41:40,515 --> 00:41:44,102 I thought an American would be a breath of fresh air. 642 00:41:45,353 --> 00:41:47,647 So no Americans. 643 00:41:47,647 --> 00:41:49,148 And no men. 644 00:41:53,569 --> 00:41:58,783 All the bottles and powdered milk are packed and in the car. 645 00:42:00,493 --> 00:42:03,704 So, looks like we're ready for the off. 646 00:42:06,457 --> 00:42:08,501 Come on, then, little lad. 647 00:42:08,501 --> 00:42:10,086 Your carriage awaits. 648 00:42:22,265 --> 00:42:23,599 Wait. 649 00:42:31,566 --> 00:42:33,151 He can't go without an 'ankie. 650 00:42:36,988 --> 00:42:38,448 Give it to him. 651 00:42:47,123 --> 00:42:49,083 Take this from your mother, Andrew. 652 00:42:52,128 --> 00:42:54,505 And may God's love go with you always. 653 00:43:19,071 --> 00:43:21,741 Did I do the right thing, Mr Hereward? 654 00:43:21,741 --> 00:43:24,410 Tell me honestly, did I do the right thing? 655 00:43:24,410 --> 00:43:27,455 I'm not even going to answer that question, Marnie. 656 00:43:27,455 --> 00:43:30,208 Because you did the only thing you could. 657 00:43:30,208 --> 00:43:32,210 Thank you for being so kind to me. 658 00:43:34,504 --> 00:43:36,881 It must've been quite hard. 659 00:43:36,881 --> 00:43:39,842 It wasn't hard at all. 660 00:43:39,842 --> 00:43:42,303 Have you been in this situation before? 661 00:43:43,930 --> 00:43:46,432 I've been in this situation once. 662 00:43:50,978 --> 00:43:56,109 Is there anything else I can do for you before I go? 663 00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,612 I want to get rid of the pram. 664 00:43:59,612 --> 00:44:02,198 Kevin's not a baby any more. 665 00:44:02,198 --> 00:44:05,201 I was only pushing him round in it to keep it warm for... 666 00:44:06,869 --> 00:44:08,538 ..the next one. 667 00:44:10,998 --> 00:44:13,126 Now I need someone to take it away. 668 00:44:23,386 --> 00:44:26,848 Tom? How did it go? 669 00:44:26,848 --> 00:44:28,474 He's gone. 670 00:44:29,976 --> 00:44:33,855 Tom...this isn't your story. 671 00:44:33,855 --> 00:44:37,191 You've always said you couldn't've had a happier childhood, 672 00:44:37,191 --> 00:44:39,277 or a better life. 673 00:44:40,570 --> 00:44:44,365 That was before I witnessed a woman giving up her child. 674 00:44:44,365 --> 00:44:47,243 Before I was in the room watching her crying. 675 00:44:47,243 --> 00:44:49,537 What about her story? 676 00:44:49,537 --> 00:44:50,997 I'm sorry. 677 00:44:53,708 --> 00:44:56,002 There are no photographs of me as a child. 678 00:44:57,920 --> 00:44:59,672 I didn't think I minded. 679 00:45:02,175 --> 00:45:04,594 But now I've seen one. 680 00:45:04,594 --> 00:45:06,053 And I do. 681 00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:14,771 If Dr Turner was a Girl Guide, 682 00:45:14,771 --> 00:45:18,232 he'd get his Needlework Badge for those stitches. 683 00:45:18,232 --> 00:45:20,568 But you really are going to have to stay in bed 684 00:45:20,568 --> 00:45:22,069 or you might tear again. 685 00:45:22,069 --> 00:45:24,906 We could transfer you to the maternity home or hospital, 686 00:45:24,906 --> 00:45:28,117 you could have a proper rest, away from your children. 687 00:45:28,117 --> 00:45:30,912 Why would I want to be away from my children? 688 00:45:32,955 --> 00:45:36,083 - Can they come in now? - Of course. 689 00:45:40,922 --> 00:45:44,675 Please Let It Be Me by The Fashions 690 00:45:44,675 --> 00:45:49,305 - - I love you so 691 00:45:49,305 --> 00:45:53,392 692 00:45:53,392 --> 00:45:57,939 693 00:45:57,939 --> 00:46:02,610 694 00:46:02,610 --> 00:46:07,406 695 00:46:07,406 --> 00:46:11,452 696 00:46:11,452 --> 00:46:15,039 697 00:46:15,039 --> 00:46:20,086 698 00:46:20,086 --> 00:46:22,046 - - One night 699 00:46:22,046 --> 00:46:25,049 - - One night you're mine 700 00:46:25,049 --> 00:46:29,053 - - When you say you're true 701 00:46:29,053 --> 00:46:31,222 702 00:46:31,222 --> 00:46:33,641 703 00:46:33,641 --> 00:46:38,187 - - Someone new 704 00:46:38,187 --> 00:46:42,358 705 00:46:42,358 --> 00:46:44,610 706 00:46:44,610 --> 00:46:46,946 707 00:46:46,946 --> 00:46:50,032 708 00:46:50,032 --> 00:46:54,537 709 00:46:57,039 --> 00:46:59,876 I thought I'd escort that last one to the door. 710 00:46:59,876 --> 00:47:03,379 I'm quite sure she realised that she'd been unsuccessful. 711 00:47:03,379 --> 00:47:05,590 She was trilling like Tweetie Pie 712 00:47:05,590 --> 00:47:09,177 all the way to the bottom of the stairs. 713 00:47:09,177 --> 00:47:12,180 Today's layer cake assumes the form 714 00:47:12,180 --> 00:47:15,850 of coffee and walnut sponge. 715 00:47:15,850 --> 00:47:19,771 Since the maker's hand moved freely with the flavourings, 716 00:47:19,771 --> 00:47:23,441 I consumed my portion earlier, 717 00:47:23,441 --> 00:47:26,527 lest it render me wakeful tonight. 718 00:47:26,527 --> 00:47:30,782 Thank you, Sister. Do pour us all a cup of tea. 719 00:47:30,782 --> 00:47:34,118 Nurse Crane, most of our new recruits 720 00:47:34,118 --> 00:47:36,537 - are like fish out of water to begin with. - Yes. 721 00:47:36,537 --> 00:47:41,918 And whole weeks get wasted while they flap around gasping for air. 722 00:47:41,918 --> 00:47:45,046 We need someone who can roll their sleeves up, 723 00:47:45,046 --> 00:47:49,425 and not collapse when they see an East End privy. 724 00:47:49,425 --> 00:47:54,514 None would disagree who have toiled in these environs. 725 00:47:54,514 --> 00:48:00,478 The trouble is nursing treats young working class girls 726 00:48:00,478 --> 00:48:02,355 the way the world treats women. 727 00:48:02,355 --> 00:48:04,982 They're all over them when there's a war on. 728 00:48:04,982 --> 00:48:07,318 Afterwards, nobody wants to know. 729 00:48:07,318 --> 00:48:08,694 Thank you. 730 00:48:18,371 --> 00:48:21,499 Shelagh? Shelagh? 731 00:48:28,381 --> 00:48:31,717 You must've seen babies that lived as long as mine did. 732 00:48:31,717 --> 00:48:33,719 Yes. 733 00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,889 Do they have fingers and toes? 734 00:48:36,889 --> 00:48:38,558 Yes, they do. 735 00:48:39,892 --> 00:48:43,438 I feel stupid asking, but when I ask the nurses, 736 00:48:43,438 --> 00:48:46,315 it's like it wouldn't do me any good to know. 737 00:48:46,315 --> 00:48:48,276 And it does do me good. 738 00:48:48,276 --> 00:48:49,944 I'm glad. 739 00:48:53,364 --> 00:48:56,367 They say my milk will come in tomorrow. 740 00:48:56,367 --> 00:48:59,704 Then they'll have to dry it up using Epsom salts. 741 00:49:01,038 --> 00:49:03,749 That is what's usually advised. 742 00:49:06,544 --> 00:49:08,963 You'd think your body would know better than to make milk 743 00:49:08,963 --> 00:49:11,382 for a baby who could never live, wouldn't you? 744 00:49:14,218 --> 00:49:15,470 Yes. 745 00:49:27,982 --> 00:49:31,652 Hello, Mr Spenlow. Have you been to see Marnie? 746 00:49:31,652 --> 00:49:35,823 Not yet. Dot's been having thoughts. 747 00:49:35,823 --> 00:49:39,869 About the way ahead, and how we ought to proceed. Can I come in? 748 00:49:42,246 --> 00:49:44,582 What do they mean, "a private adoption"? 749 00:49:44,582 --> 00:49:47,919 It's when a baby is handed directly by the mother 750 00:49:47,919 --> 00:49:49,879 to the adoptive parents, 751 00:49:49,879 --> 00:49:52,507 rather than going through a charity or an agency. 752 00:49:52,507 --> 00:49:55,051 But that's what we're already doing, isn't it? 753 00:49:55,051 --> 00:49:59,055 A formal private adoption would involve paperwork. 754 00:49:59,055 --> 00:50:01,516 And it would be legally binding. 755 00:50:02,725 --> 00:50:05,436 Does that mean I couldn't change my mind? 756 00:50:05,436 --> 00:50:07,480 I'm afraid it does, Marnie. 757 00:50:40,388 --> 00:50:43,182 Is this what is known as a "lady's glass"? 758 00:50:43,182 --> 00:50:45,017 Yes, it is. 759 00:50:45,017 --> 00:50:47,228 It practically had cobwebs on. 760 00:50:47,228 --> 00:50:49,564 I did dust it. 761 00:50:49,564 --> 00:50:52,442 You strike me as a young woman of very high standards. 762 00:50:52,442 --> 00:50:55,486 That's what the Army does for you. And nursing. 763 00:50:55,486 --> 00:50:59,323 Being an Army Nurse makes you twice as particular. 764 00:50:59,323 --> 00:51:04,579 Miss Dyer, why did you resign from military service? 765 00:51:06,622 --> 00:51:08,749 It was all so... 766 00:51:08,749 --> 00:51:12,962 efficient, in a way that wasn't always good. 767 00:51:12,962 --> 00:51:17,842 Plenty of curing. Not quite so much caring. 768 00:51:17,842 --> 00:51:20,470 I thought I'd be bored by now. 769 00:51:20,470 --> 00:51:25,099 But it's as if going away made me look at Poplar through fresh eyes. 770 00:51:25,099 --> 00:51:28,978 Even on the day of that explosion, I didn't want to be anywhere else. 771 00:51:28,978 --> 00:51:32,565 It was the way people pulled together. 772 00:51:32,565 --> 00:51:35,568 It was the way you cared that caught my eye. 773 00:51:35,568 --> 00:51:39,071 And why I thought you might be interested in my offer. 774 00:51:39,071 --> 00:51:41,866 Miss Dyer, all you have to do 775 00:51:41,866 --> 00:51:44,368 is write and apply formally. 776 00:51:47,163 --> 00:51:50,750 I appreciate I've rather put you on the spot. 777 00:51:50,750 --> 00:51:52,794 By all means take some time to think about it. 778 00:51:52,794 --> 00:51:56,631 Oh, I don't need any time to think about it, Sister. 779 00:51:56,631 --> 00:51:59,175 I'll be applying today. 780 00:52:04,555 --> 00:52:07,809 Marnie. You shouldn't be out of doors. 781 00:52:07,809 --> 00:52:10,937 I wanted one bit of paperwork that I could call my own. 782 00:52:12,146 --> 00:52:15,608 So I went down to the Town Hall and I registered the baby. 783 00:52:17,110 --> 00:52:19,403 And when I signed it... 784 00:52:19,403 --> 00:52:21,405 I knew I wanted him. 785 00:52:32,250 --> 00:52:34,293 I'm so sorry, Gloria. 786 00:52:39,882 --> 00:52:42,176 I've got this idea in my head 787 00:52:42,176 --> 00:52:45,263 that next year, or the year after, 788 00:52:45,263 --> 00:52:47,557 it'll be a lovely sunny day, 789 00:52:47,557 --> 00:52:51,185 and I'll be down Chrisp Street Market, pushing a pram. 790 00:52:52,603 --> 00:52:56,107 And somewhere near the flower stall, I'll look up and I'll see you... 791 00:52:56,107 --> 00:52:58,651 pushing a pram. 792 00:52:58,651 --> 00:53:01,154 And we'll smile, 793 00:53:01,154 --> 00:53:03,531 and we'll pass the time of day. 794 00:53:06,576 --> 00:53:08,995 That would be lovely, wouldn't it? 795 00:53:20,756 --> 00:53:22,842 I knew. 796 00:53:22,842 --> 00:53:26,387 I knew as soon as I heard that tune on the ruddy doorbell. 797 00:53:26,387 --> 00:53:29,015 You always had a way of pressing doorbells really hard 798 00:53:29,015 --> 00:53:33,352 when we was kids, playing Ring The Bell And Run Away. 799 00:53:33,352 --> 00:53:36,731 Except you're not going to run away this time, are ya? 800 00:53:36,731 --> 00:53:38,691 Marnie knows what she wants, Dot. 801 00:53:38,691 --> 00:53:41,611 Oh, well! We'll have to hand him straight over then, won't we? 802 00:53:43,070 --> 00:53:45,114 Marnie is Andrew's mother, Dot. 803 00:53:45,114 --> 00:53:46,699 But what's she got to give him? 804 00:53:48,034 --> 00:53:51,037 And please don't say love. 805 00:53:51,037 --> 00:53:55,291 I'm so full of love for him, it's... it's spilling out of me like water. 806 00:53:56,834 --> 00:53:59,295 And it's spilling out of me like milk. 807 00:54:10,807 --> 00:54:12,725 Somebody take him! 808 00:54:35,039 --> 00:54:37,834 Thank you for looking after him. 809 00:54:37,834 --> 00:54:40,336 Oh, he'll need his hankie. 810 00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:45,633 You keep it, Dot. 811 00:54:49,137 --> 00:54:50,513 I'm sorry. 812 00:55:14,662 --> 00:55:18,166 We're going to listen for baby's heartbeat today, Mrs Turner. 813 00:55:18,166 --> 00:55:19,709 Now? 814 00:55:19,709 --> 00:55:22,295 I wanted a particular doctor... 815 00:55:22,295 --> 00:55:25,506 and he has a very busy schedule. 816 00:56:30,780 --> 00:56:31,864 Shelagh. 817 00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:57,932 Afternoon, Mr Spenlow. 818 00:56:57,932 --> 00:56:59,767 Reverend. 819 00:56:59,767 --> 00:57:02,186 Has this been made redundant? 820 00:57:02,186 --> 00:57:04,772 Well, we bought all this stuff for the little fella. 821 00:57:04,772 --> 00:57:06,315 And we want him to have it. 822 00:57:09,277 --> 00:57:11,404 Some of this is my fault. 823 00:57:11,404 --> 00:57:13,739 I said I wouldn't adopt from an orphanage. 824 00:57:15,199 --> 00:57:16,951 Didn't want a stranger's child. 825 00:57:19,704 --> 00:57:21,289 You live and learn, don't you? 826 00:57:23,207 --> 00:57:27,545 Mr Spenlow, I can introduce you to someone from an adoption agency. 827 00:57:27,545 --> 00:57:29,589 When the time is right. 828 00:57:32,383 --> 00:57:34,594 Well, when Dot's stopped crying. 829 00:57:47,815 --> 00:57:51,903 - One for you. - Thanks, Danny. Drinks on the house if I've won the pools! 830 00:58:08,961 --> 00:58:11,756 During the summer of 1962 831 00:58:11,756 --> 00:58:15,009 there was joy in the sunlit streets 832 00:58:15,009 --> 00:58:17,345 around Nonnatus House. 833 00:58:17,345 --> 00:58:20,139 The opening of the recreation ground 834 00:58:20,139 --> 00:58:23,935 restored something to the soul of the district. 835 00:58:23,935 --> 00:58:26,521 People were given a place to gather, 836 00:58:26,521 --> 00:58:30,566 room to play, a space to share. 837 00:58:30,566 --> 00:58:35,530 Sometimes the heart desires such very simple things. 838 00:58:35,530 --> 00:58:37,865 The heart holds within it 839 00:58:37,865 --> 00:58:40,076 all that is most precious, 840 00:58:40,076 --> 00:58:42,286 all that we must protect. 841 00:58:50,545 --> 00:58:55,091 Ready...steady... 842 00:58:55,091 --> 00:58:57,802 But it is also braver and bolder, 843 00:58:57,802 --> 00:59:00,304 more resilient than we realise. 844 00:59:00,304 --> 00:59:03,182 If we wound it, it will heal. 845 00:59:10,481 --> 00:59:14,735 And if it breaks, it learns to beat again. 846 00:59:16,737 --> 00:59:20,408 One of the great doctors of the Roman Empire once described 847 00:59:20,408 --> 00:59:25,455 the heart as "a source and hearthstone of the inborn heat 848 00:59:25,455 --> 00:59:29,667 "by which we are all governed. "It is," he wrote, 849 00:59:29,667 --> 00:59:33,045 "Made of hard flesh not easily injured. 850 00:59:33,045 --> 00:59:37,383 "In vigour, tension, general strength and resistance to injury, 851 00:59:37,383 --> 00:59:42,638 "the fibres of this organ far surpass all others, 852 00:59:42,638 --> 00:59:47,393 "for no other instrument performs such continuous, 853 00:59:47,393 --> 00:59:51,147 "hard work as the heart." 854 00:59:52,607 --> 00:59:56,402 Nurse Dyer. Welcome to Nonnatus House. 855 00:59:57,570 --> 00:59:59,447 Why have you brought him here? 856 00:59:59,447 --> 01:00:01,657 He's simple. He needs proper care. 857 01:00:01,657 --> 01:00:04,577 Together we're going to save the borough's teeth. 858 01:00:04,577 --> 01:00:06,037 I must get back to Sister Winifred. 859 01:00:06,037 --> 01:00:08,748 She'll be thinking Nurse Franklin's run me out of town. 860 01:00:08,748 --> 01:00:11,501 We must instruct our troops! 861 01:00:11,501 --> 01:00:14,086 An innocent is in danger!