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'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 1

Daniel Hautzinger

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

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Holiday Special

Daniel Hautzinger

The midwives and their friends all pitch in to recreate a cherished Christmas from the depressed Sister Monica Joan's childhood, while also delivering babies and helping an isolated loner.

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 8

Daniel Hautzinger

Almost everything that can go wrong before Matthew and Trixie's wedding does, but they luckily have a caring group of midwives and a supportive community to usher everything through to the end. 

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 7

Daniel Hautzinger

Sister Veronica garners some needed donations in exchange for hosting a photography contest, while Cyril tries to help a young man who has had everything go wrong. Nancy aids a woman who gives birth while homeless.

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 6

Daniel Hautzinger

Sister Monica Joan makes a new, and unsanctioned, friend in her loneliness. Trixie helps a very young mother navigate her family dynamic, and everyone tries to help out a young boy who's carrying a big burden. 

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 5

Daniel Hautzinger

Cyril is asked to intervene when a new father starts to act strangely, while Matthew deals with his difficult, ailing father and decides to try some hard work with Timothy. Shelagh has an unwelcome surprise.

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 4

Daniel Hautzinger

Nurse Crane's competence is called into question as the board of health questions whether she should retire, while a gastroenteritis outbreak at the clinic necessitates a quarantine. 

A Recipe for a Cousin of Panna Cotta from the 'Call the Midwife' Era

Daniel Hautzinger

Blancmange is similar to panna cotta, a simple custard-like set dessert that was once quite popular, especially in Europe. Try a recipe for it from Call the Midwife: The Official Cookbook.

A 'Call the Midwife' Cookbook Explores the Food—and History—of a "Totally Bonkers Period"

Daniel Hautzinger

“It’s a totally bonkers period,” says Annie Gray, a food historian and the author of a new cookbook focusing on British food from 1956-1970, the era of Call the Midwife. But the food "tells us so much about social attitudes" and more, she says.  

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 3

Daniel Hautzinger

Trixie has decided to learn to cook before her marriage to Matthew. Nancy has fallen into trouble but doesn't want to tell anyone. Shelagh helps a mother and daughter sundered by a difficult diagnosis, and Sister Veronica aids a woman with an abusive husband. 

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 2

Daniel Hautzinger

Lucille continues to struggle with depression even as she helps a fiercely independent older man in Poplar. Freed some administrative duties by Sister Veronica's arrival, Sister Julienne relishes doing more work with patients, like a woman with breast cancer. 

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Episode 1

Daniel Hautzinger

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 and depression that is worsened by an outbreak of racism in London.

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 12 Holiday Special

Daniel Hautzinger

While Fred and others organize a talent show to benefit those affected by the recent train crash in Poplar, the midwives and Doctor Turner attend to a family with a handicapped daughter and a woman who has been released from prison to find she has no connections.

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 11 Episode 8

Daniel Hautzinger

Everyone does what they can to help Poplar through a terrible accident, while Sister Frances continues to try to help a young mother and Sister Hilda ushers an older mother through a new chapter of life both joyful and tragic.

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 11 Episode 7

Daniel Hautzinger

Nancy is assigned more responsibility but it conflicts with her time with her daughter, while Sister Frances helps a very young mother. An older mother struggles with her pregnancy, while her husband has an issue that dramatically affects all of Poplar.
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