A family learns some terrible news, and Trixie is devastated that she's unable to help them more. Valerie makes a new friend, but she soon shares a difficult secret with dark complications. In lighter news, Fred and Violet throw a beauty pageant!
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'Call the Midwife' Season 7 Episode 2 Recap
Daniel HautzingerWhen a patient suffers a devastating complication, her mother blames Lucille out of racism. Valerie tries to welcome the new nurse to Nonnatus despite the prejudice of the East End. Sister Winifred opens her motherhood class to husbands.
'Call the Midwife' Season 7 Episode 1 Recap
Daniel HautzingerAs the record-breaking winter of 1963 continues, Nonnatus House is getting a new midwife, who, despite weather delays and illness, is quickly thrown into the thick of work. Nurse Crane tries to fend off the eviction of a dying old woman and her devoted husband.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 7 Holiday Special
Daniel HautzingerIt's a crippling holiday season in Poplar, with subzero temperatures and mounds of snow. Valerie attends to a scared young woman living in a trailer, Nurse Julienne attempts to reconcile an estranged mother and daughter, and Nurse Crane makes an enemy.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 8
Daniel HautzingerIn this season's finale of Call the Midwife, four characters encounter major turning points in life: marriage, birth, menopause, and the decision to have no more children.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 7
Daniel HautzingerPrejudice in various forms causes trouble in this episode of Call the Midwife. It leads to a near-tragic accident, causes a rift in a family with a handicapped daughter, and threatens to end a budding romance.
Why Was 'Home Fires' Cancelled?
Daniel HautzingerCall the Midwife is now slated for nine seasons, while Home Fires was abruptly cancelled after two. The two dramas share some similarities - both based on a book, both focusing on the lives of women in mid-century Britain - so what explains their opposite trajectories?
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 6
Daniel HautzingerThe Cuban Missile Crisis hovers over everyone's head like a terrifying fighter plane, as Valerie deals with an unfamiliar cultural tradition that affects a woman's pregnancy and the sisters try to help Sister Mary Cynthia as she transitions out of the mental institution.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 5
Daniel HautzingerSister Winifred takes up dental hygiene while Trixie deals with a patient who's terrified of the dentist. After a vulnerable young man with Down syndrome endures a tragedy, Fred and Violet struggle to help him and find him a new home.
A History of Britain in Period Dramas
Daniel HautzingerThere are a lot of British period dramas – so many, in fact, that you can construct a decent narrative of British history. Explore some history, and learn what Masterpiece dramas will return or premiere soon in the process.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 4
Daniel HautzingerNumerous mothers contend with the loss of a child in various forms, while Shelagh's pregnancy comes to a crisis. The Nonnatans search for a new midwife, Dr. Turner and his son's relationship deepens, and a "chariot race" enlivens Poplar.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 3
Daniel HautzingerSister 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, but her past provides a motive for her behavior towards her daughter-in-law and her newborn.
Modern Midwifery: A Conversation with a Midwife-in-Training
Daniel HautzingerMany people probably assume midwives are a thing of the past. A midwife-in-training at the Yale School of Nursing shows otherwise, explaining the various roles midwives play today and surveying the recent history of midwifery.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 2
Daniel HautzingerBig 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 docks, Shelagh attempts in a small way to ensure safer working conditions, especially after seeing the devastation the accident wreaks on the Marsh family.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6 Episode 1
Daniel HautzingerIn the first episode of Call the Midwife's sixth season, there have been some unpleasant changes at Nonnatus House. Sister Mary Cynthia deals with lingering trauma, the patient of the week undergoes her own traumatic experiences, and some of the Nonnatus staff hit major life landmarks.
