Call the Midwife

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 chagrin, while two neighbors go into labor at the same time but have vastly different experiences with their birthes.

The circus is coming to Poplar as the holidays approach, and the ringmaster's daughter is pregnant. Shelagh reconnects with a woman who has had many miscarriages but is pregnant once again, and Monica Joan has a fall.

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 Nonnatus House, in the season finale of Call the Midwife.

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 blind mother who rejects any attempt at help and is in a spat with her sister.

The Turners' adoption of Mae hits a difficult obstacle, while a relative of Valerie's faces a sorrowful tragedy after the birth of her third child. Fred works to put on Poplar's annual horticultural show.

Sister Hilda and Nurse Crane have differing opinions about the involvement of a husband in his wife's pregnancy, while Sisters Julienne and Frances become involved in a middle-aged woman's life and end up re-examining their views of themselves.

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 his health. Four young doctors move into Nonnatus House to learn from the midwives. 

The midwives organize a fashion show to raise money for an incubator while Nurse Crane seeks to help a recent immigrant ashamed of her condition and Lucille works at the hospital with a rude, racist woman. 

Sister Julienne tries to help an independent-minded, pregnant prostitute. The hardworking mother of a pregnant woman suffers from a mysterious illness. And the relationship between Sergeant Woolf and Miss Higgins gets complicated. 

Dr. Turner searches for the source of a diphtheria outbreak in Poplar while a woman in a complicated situation suffers regrest after feeling like she had no option but to abandon a baby in a trashcan, in the return episode of Call the Midwife.

Mother Mildred brings a contingent of midwives with her to the Outer Hebrides, where fickle electricity and isolated attitudes create difficulties for them as they try to help a hotheaded young woman and another who lives far away at a lighthouse.

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 women. The Nonnatans try to give a young girl suffering from cancer a normal life as Shelagh organizes a charity ball. 

The Turners prepare for Mae's departure while a proposed reproductive clinic in Poplar inspires debate. Sister Frances goes through her first delivery, a husband struggles with his willpower, and Valerie is stunned and horrified by a revelation in her family.

Mother Mildred becomes interested in working conditions when she comes to Poplar and tends to a family with three generations of dockworkers. Lucille's romance hits a rough patch, while she tries to help a young single mother intent on keeping her daughter despite her parents' wishes.

A husband suffers during his wife's pregnancy while another woman learns she has a rare condition that causes her to have a life-altering identity crisis. And both Phyllis and Lucille reluctantly face romantic interests.