Call The Midwife

It's Spring time, and with extra help needed in Poplar, Mother Mildred decides to send Sister Frances and Sister Hilda to Nonnatus House, where they will live and work. Everyone is excited for the impending arrival of the Queen's baby. Violet is holding a Teddy Bears' Picnic and raising funds through a sweepstake on whether the Queen will have a boy or a girl. The midwives are introduced to their new midwifery bags but Sister Monica Joan is distressed when she sees Fred burning the old leather ones.

Lucille is deeply concerned by her elderly patient, Clarice Milgrove's, living conditions. She is a hoarder living alone among towering piles of rubbish, books and tins of food with a malodorous leg ulcer. Sister Hilda faces a steep learning curve when a newly arrived Ghanaian family are found to be afflicted with a mystery illness. Elsewhere, Violet Buckle determines to serve her community by running for local councillor. But Fred is not so pleased, convinced that his CDC work will be more beneficial to the area than any life in politics.

Valerie has to dig deep to help a mother of five come to terms with her son's birth defect. The Turner's oversee a measles vaccination trial at the clinic, but an overly anxious first-time mother causes them great concern. It soon becomes apparent that she is harbouring a great loss, which is set to derail her. Nurse Crane is determined to make the most of the Whitsun holiday and decides to give the cubs and local residents a most memorable bank holiday by bringing the seaside to Poplar. Violet is overjoyed when she wins the council seat for Poplar North.

Sister Julienne is drawn into a family rift between an estranged mother and daughter who are both pregnant. Trixie's Keep Fit class is chosen to host a fitness Jamboree, but her star pupil is devastated to discover she is pregnant. Meanwhile Nurse Crane realises she has an admirer, and Sister Frances' shyness starts to concern Sister Julienne.

Poplar welcomes a brand new cervical cancer-screening clinic to the Institute and Dr Turner, Shelagh and Trixie are pleased to be part of the exciting new venture. One of their first patients is a young woman who is due to be married, but has never had a period. She has to be referred to St Cuthbert's where she receives a diagnosis of a rare condition known then as Testicular Feminisation Syndrome. Trixie does her utmost to be supportive but the truth of the condition has larger repercussions than anyone could ever have imagined.

Mother Mildred returns and helps a docker family tackle end-stage pneumoconiosis. Lucille cares for an unmarried teenage mother who wants to keep her baby.

Trixie cares for heavily pregnant Heather Pugh, who confides in Trixie that her waterworks are causing her pain. Routine tests reveal an unfortunate truth: Heather has gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection that could cause serious health concerns to her unborn child. Mother Mildred decides that inexperienced Sister Frances must attend her first solo birth before Nurse Crane returns, and Lucille gets ready for her second date with Cyril.

Sister Hilda digs deep to give her terminally-ill patient her final wish whilst the Turners must prepare to say goodbye to May. Fred and Reggie are keeping secrets from each other.

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