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'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 6

Daniel Hautzinger

Matthew finally reveals his financial woes to Trixie, right as she was expecting some big lifestyle changes. The other midwives try to help a recently arrived mother and two boys found in a church. 

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 5

Daniel Hautzinger

A young couple underestimates their ability to be responsible parents, but they are put to the test by a medical issue in both their daughters. The Turners face their own trouble with one of their children. 

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 4

Daniel Hautzinger

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

'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 3

Daniel Hautzinger

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

Daniel Hautzinger

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 infected with mold.

'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. 
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