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Call the Midwife follows the nurses, midwives and nuns from Nonnatus House, who visit the expectant mothers of Poplar, providing the poorest women with the best possible care.

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'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 5

A young couple underestimates their ability to be responsible parents, but they are put to the test by a medical issue in both their…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 4

A distraction at home leads Trixie to rush while working with a patient with the pupil midwife Joyce, while other midwives help a…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 3

Violet is running for mayor with the support of her family and friends, but a medical emergency threatens to derail her life first…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 2

Cyril and the midwives help a woman whose husband has left her with one child and another on the way and whose government housing is…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 1

A new set of midwife pupils arrives in Poplar and one of them is immediately thrust into danger, while the other midwives aid a…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Holiday Special

The midwives and their friends all pitch in to recreate a cherished Christmas from the depressed Sister Monica Joan's childhood,…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 8

Almost everything that can go wrong before Matthew and Trixie's wedding does, but they luckily have a caring group of midwives and a…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 7

Sister Veronica garners some needed donations in exchange for hosting a photography contest, while Cyril tries to help a young man who…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 6

Sister Monica Joan makes a new, and unsanctioned, friend in her loneliness. Trixie helps a very young mother navigate her family…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 5

Cyril is asked to intervene when a new father starts to act strangely, while Matthew deals with his difficult, ailing father and…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 4

Nurse Crane's competence is called into question as the board of health questions whether she should retire, while a gastroenteritis…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 3

Trixie has decided to learn to cook before her marriage to Matthew. Nancy has fallen into trouble but doesn't want to tell anyone.…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 2

Lucille continues to struggle with depression even as she helps a fiercely independent older man in Poplar. Freed some administrative…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 1

Nancy aids a woman as she dies of a painful cancer at home and learns a secret of her life, while Lucille struggles with homesickness…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Holiday Special

While Fred and others organize a talent show to benefit those affected by the recent train crash in Poplar, the midwives and Doctor…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 11 Episode 8

Everyone does what they can to help Poplar through a terrible accident, while Sister Frances continues to try to help a young mother…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 11 Episode 7

Nancy is assigned more responsibility but it conflicts with her time with her daughter, while Sister Frances helps a very young mother…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 11 Episode 6

A group of squatters moves into one of Matthew's warehouses, and one of them is due to give birth soon. Sister Monica Joan worries that…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 11 Episode 5

Cyril and Lucille try to reconcile their plans for the future while Trixie begins to envision a future with Matthew, before sad news…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 11 Episode 4

Sister Hilda and Dr. Turner try to help a man with a lung condition who is haunted by his past, while Sister Julienne and Trixie try to…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 11 Episode 3

Nancy befriends a homeless man and struggles with how to help him while Violet tries to figure out how to best help all of her…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 11 Episode 2

A frightening event leads to a big change in Miss Higgins' life, while a patient has her own upending diagnosis. A woman prepares to…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 11 Episode 1

It's Easter in Poplar, and spring brings a new beginning for Nancy as she begins work as a midwife. Changes uncover a horrible story…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 11 Holiday Special

It's a busy holiday season at Nonnatus House. Lucille is marrying Cyril the day after Christmas, Mother Mildred is coming to visit, and…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 10 Episode 7

Matthew Aylward shows up in a surprising way in Poplar, and Trixie finds her view of him shifting. A complication interrupts a familial…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 10 Episode 6

Sister Frances tries to increase outreach to Poplar's South Asian community as a young mother struggles with a childhood trauma. Trixie…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 10 Episode 5

Sister Julienne fears that something is wrong with a mother's first child while Trixie helps Matthew more and more with his new baby.…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 10 Episode 4

New midwives-in-training arrive at Nonnatus, including the chatty and easily underestimated Nancy. Cyril makes a big decision, and Dr.…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 10 Episode 3

A woman's complications during her pregnancy lead Lucille and Shelagh down a research path, while Sister Hilda and Dr. Turner try to…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 10 Episode 2

Cyril, Lucille, and the Buckles help a family fallen on hard times, while Sister Frances seeks to help a woman who regrets the…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 10 Episode 1

Sister Julienne sends Trixie to work at a posh private maternity clinic as part of a plan to aid Nonnatus House, to Dr. Turner's…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 10 Holiday Special

The circus is coming to Poplar as the holidays approach, and the ringmaster's daughter is pregnant. Shelagh reconnects with a woman who…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 9 Episode 8

Valerie is put in charge of her gran's care as she struggles with an illness while the midwives fight to prove their worth and save…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 9 Episode 7

McNulty must help a woman whose husband is a drunk, but the young doctor has his own issues, which worry Sister Frances. Trixie helps a…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 9 Episode 6

The Turners' adoption of Mae hits a difficult obstacle, while a relative of Valerie's faces a sorrowful tragedy after the birth of her…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 9 Episode 5

Sister Hilda and Nurse Crane have differing opinions about the involvement of a husband in his wife's pregnancy, while Sisters Julienne…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 9 Episode 4

Fred and Reggie meet an ailing man who keeps pigeons, and try to convince him to move out of his condemned building while helping with…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 9 Episode 3

The midwives organize a fashion show to raise money for an incubator while Nurse Crane seeks to help a recent immigrant ashamed of her…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 9 Episode 2

Sister Julienne tries to help an independent-minded, pregnant prostitute. The hardworking mother of a pregnant woman suffers from a…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 9 Episode 1

Dr. Turner searches for the source of a diphtheria outbreak in Poplar while a woman in a complicated situation suffers regrest after…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 9 Holiday Special

Mother Mildred brings a contingent of midwives with her to the Outer Hebrides, where fickle electricity and isolated attitudes create…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 8 Episode 8

Valerie is placed in a terrible position in relation to her family, and Sister Frances wants to do more to help both her and Poplar's…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 8 Episode 7

The Turners prepare for Mae's departure while a proposed reproductive clinic in Poplar inspires debate. Sister Frances goes through her…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 8 Episode 6

Mother Mildred becomes interested in working conditions when she comes to Poplar and tends to a family with three generations of…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 8 Episode 5

A husband suffers during his wife's pregnancy while another woman learns she has a rare condition that causes her to have a life-…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 8 Episode 4

Cilla Singh and Enid Wilson are both pregnant, but in very different circumstances. They do have one connection, however: Cilla is Enid…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 8 Episode 3

Violet takes to her new role with gusto while one of her newest constituents anxiously worries over every little thing that happens to…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 8 Episode 2

A Ghanian immigrant family's bright future is complicated by a mysterious illness, and Lucille tries to help an old hoarder with an…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 8 Episode 1

Two new nuns, one experienced and one freshly commissioned, arrive at Nonnatus House. New equipment triggers a delusional episode in…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 8 Holiday Special

As Christmas approaches, the Nonnatus sisters are called back to the Mother House to elect a new Mother Superior. There, they care for…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 7 Holiday Special

It's a crippling holiday season in Poplar, with subzero temperatures and mounds of snow. Valerie attends to a scared young woman living…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 8

In this season's finale of Call the Midwife, four characters encounter major turning points in life: marriage, birth,…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 7

Prejudice in various forms causes trouble in this episode of Call the Midwife. It leads to a near-tragic accident, causes a…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 6

The Cuban Missile Crisis hovers over everyone's head like a terrifying fighter plane, as Valerie deals with an unfamiliar cultural…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 5

Sister Winifred takes up dental hygiene while Trixie deals with a patient who's terrified of the dentist. After a vulnerable young man…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 4

Numerous mothers contend with the loss of a child in various forms, while Shelagh's pregnancy comes to a crisis. The Nonnatans search…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 3

Sister Ursula may seem to be a villain. But she soon changes her tune after being rocked by a near-tragedy. Mrs. Chen is also difficult…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 2

Big problems threaten the birth of a healthy child for Penny Reed, but Patsy offers her full support. In the wake of a tragedy at the…

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 1

In the first episode of Call the Midwife's sixth season, there have been some unpleasant changes at Nonnatus House. Sister…