1 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,550 'When a child is born, the world is altered in a instant. 2 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,560 'A new voice is heard. New love comes into being. 3 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,030 'Years later we pause and say, 4 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:51,870 ' "Yes, that's when it all began. On that day, in that room. 5 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,190 ' "When I saw that face." ' 6 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,550 ' Birth is the smallest of magnificent things. 7 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:04,550 'And the greatest of little ones. For the midwives of Nonnatus House, 8 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,750 'each one was as ordinary and magical as the sunrise - 9 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:13,350 'as familiar and different as a breaking day.' 10 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,240 Phone's ringing! 11 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,720 She's in Beauregarde Street! Do you want a lift? 12 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,420 Very well. If it's going to be quicker. 13 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,830 ~ Oh, Lord! ~ She's in the back! We're on our way to the hospital! 14 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,110 ~ What name is it? ~ We thought Nicholas, if it's a boy. 15 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,310 I meant your wife. 16 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,270 Oh, it's you, Sarah! 17 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,510 I told you at clinic you wouldn't be waiting long. 18 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,110 How did you get here? 19 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,470 Magic Carpet Midwifery Services at your disposal! 20 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,470 Mind out. I've been sick on the seat. 21 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,590 Nothing a bit of Flash won't cure. 22 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:21,150 Now, let's see what baby's getting up to, shall we? 23 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,800 Bottoms up, sweetie. 24 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,070 That's superb, Sarah! Keep it coming! 25 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:33,150 Baby's well on his way! 26 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:34,950 Police, love. Can we do anything for you? 27 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:40,230 Yes! You can give us some privacy! And turn that radio down! 28 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:44,240 We don't want to be reminded of this every time you hear Elvis Presley. 29 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,670 Little pushes now, Sarah... 30 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:50,920 and one last push, Sarah. 31 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,190 Just little, little pushes now, Sarah, just little ones. 32 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,270 That's it, that's it! 33 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,060 There's a girl! 34 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:11,550 There's a girl, there's a girl! 35 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,400 There we are! There we are! 36 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,190 Nicholas for a boy, was it? 37 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,510 I think Nicola might be closer to the mark! 38 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:28,990 It's a girl? I had a girl? 39 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,480 You certainly did! 40 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,080 I reckon she's going to be a blondie. 41 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,030 Like you. 42 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,280 And blondes have more fun! They do. 43 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,580 Ain't that right, nurse? 44 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:07,460 Absolutely. 45 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,110 What in the name of goodness are you playing at? 46 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,710 All we can hear out there is you crashing and banging. It's like Tin Pan Alley! 47 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:16,630 We anticipate a newcomer. 48 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:21,310 And there is neither cake nor sweetmeats with which to welcome her! 49 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,110 Well, that may very well be for a reason. 50 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:27,590 We've all seen how you stuff the raw recruits with cake. 51 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,350 They're hard to come by. We don't want you scaring 'em off! 52 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,910 I should think that fibrous pottage you call All Bran 53 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:35,310 would repel them more. 54 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,830 If Nurse Gilbert wants my All Bran when she arrives, 55 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,830 she is more than welcome to it. 56 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,950 It's like trying to digest a coconut mat. 57 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,110 ~ No cake! ~ Well done, Trixie! ~ Bravo, old thing! 58 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,430 We saved you some streaky bacon. 59 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:52,670 Oh, marvellous! 60 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,350 Born in a car! 61 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,870 I really do believe that was a first for Nonnatus House. 62 00:04:57,920 --> 00:04:59,950 And very possibly a first for Poplar! 63 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,310 I think we were called to one born on a bus once. 64 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,190 And one on a platform down the Underground. 65 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,950 It's all down to mismanagement, poor advice, and hospital deliveries! 66 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,310 We'll see more and more of this, 67 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,110 unless we can persuade women they're better off at home. 68 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:14,270 Streaky bacon? 69 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,080 Er, no. 70 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:23,070 Whilst I'm officially acting Matron at the Mother and Baby Home, 71 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,990 I'd like to arrange some domiciliary deliveries for the girls. 72 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,310 ~ It would be so much easier for them. ~ Nurse Noakes, you'll never find me 73 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,950 condemning any girl who's started her life on the wrong foot. 74 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,110 But are you sure you're doing the right thing, 75 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,030 giving over months of your life to them? 76 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:37,910 There's a flat comes with the job, 77 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,070 and it means Freddie can live in the country for a while. 78 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,350 He really has turned into quite the Mr Chesty over the winter. 79 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,430 It's not for ever! Just until the council find a permanent Matron. 80 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:51,590 I think you're being compassionate, sensible, 81 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,230 and bold in equal measures. 82 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:56,030 There can be no better way to start any enterprise. 83 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:00,150 And it will be nice having Sergeant Noakes to stay with us when he does his weeks of night shift. 84 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,470 I'm looking forward to it. 85 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,470 Camilla. What are you trying to do with the clutch? 86 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,150 I'm trying to get the biting point! 87 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,550 But it's bally elusive when one's reversing out. 88 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,190 ~ Do you need me to drive you there? ~ No, I don't! 89 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,750 Your shift starts in half an hour. I'm not needed at Astor Lodge until lunch time. 90 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,590 Well, just turn the key in the ignition and say to yourself, "Mirror, signal, manoeuvre". 91 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:38,310 The more you repeat it, the more you do it, the calmer you will be. 92 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:40,630 Mirror. Signal. Manoeuvre. 93 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,800 Hop over. I'll get you to the far side of the Commercial Road. 94 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:06,350 A bientot! 95 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,070 Goodbye. 96 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,910 ~ God bless you. ~ Bye, Chummy! 97 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,670 Sister Monica Joan, whatever are you doing? 98 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,350 You say that in a tone of such surprise. 99 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,630 As though you are not accustomed to seeing me gainfully occupied. 100 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,870 But you don't need to carry out menial tasks. 101 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:43,350 There are others that will do that. You've earned your rest. 102 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:49,110 I did not rest when I was young and I was ridden all the stronger by it. 103 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,630 The young will not be tempered as we were. 104 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,830 They have an electric carpet sweeper in the Mother House. 105 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:00,950 I fear what we will find in the girl who comes to join us. 106 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,510 Sister, 107 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:08,070 I think perhaps you are confusing the new midwife with Nurse Miller. 108 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,590 She has gone to Chichester as a postulant. 109 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:13,190 But you said she would come back. 110 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,190 And she will. 111 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,830 Before I took the veil, 112 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:24,440 my mama and I would on occasion take tea at an hotel in London. 113 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:36,030 The name escapes me now 114 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,790 but perhaps that does not matter. 115 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:44,950 It had a door... that revolved. 116 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,230 And it seemed to me 117 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,750 the whole world passed through it, 118 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:56,080 no face the same, always spinning. 119 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,600 Like figurines in a music box. 120 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:08,920 The visages became quite blurred. 121 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:20,470 It can be unsettling, to see friends replaced by strangers. 122 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,550 But everyone is welcome here, and all must be cherished. 123 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,270 Remember what St Benedict said? 124 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,870 Do you think I have room enough in my head for every utterance of his? 125 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:33,830 No. 126 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:37,560 But I don't doubt you know his teachings in your heart. 127 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:51,750 I say! I'm awfully sorry. 128 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,950 Where have you come from, then, Princess? Buckingham Palace? 129 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,230 No. Liverpool. I was looking for somewhere called Nonnatus House. 130 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,110 You visiting the sisters? Here you are. 131 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:02,670 Give them these from me. 132 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:07,870 Er, top of this street, turn left, then left again. 133 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,830 You're to be commended for the way you've filed everything alphabetically, 134 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:15,630 but we have some post-natal mothers who require a double appointment - 135 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:19,590 one for themselves and one for, er, baby's vaccinations. 136 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,190 A single list isn't enough. 137 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,180 I think we're being invaded, Mrs Turner. 138 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:27,670 ~ Gangway! ~ Just pop over and see 139 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,430 if Nurse Mount needs any help with the developmental records. 140 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,790 I'm sorry, dear, but we don't allow prams in the hall. 141 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,830 We've had too many coming in with dog dirt on their wheels. 142 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,830 Well, whose is that pram over there? 143 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:41,670 Mine. And its wheels are clean. 144 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,870 So's these! Anyway, I've got firewood on the bottom. 145 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:46,950 Somebody might nick it. 146 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,470 Well, just this once. 147 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:50,710 Where's your mother? 148 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,390 Working. I've come to get the milk tokens and the orange juice 149 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:55,950 for me baby sister. 150 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,150 Aren't you lucky, having such a kind big brother? 151 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:00,230 What name, please? 152 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,430 Gary Teeman. 153 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,110 I meant your baby sister. 154 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,030 Coral. C-O-R-A-L. Like what you get in the sea. 155 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:09,630 That's pretty! 156 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:12,350 Me other sisters are called Marcy and Jacquetta. 157 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,910 Our mum says a pretty name costs nothing. 158 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,100 Your mum's quite right. 159 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,540 ~ Oh, Sorry! ~ Careful, ladies! 160 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:29,420 Oh! 161 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,040 Oh, goodness. 162 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,670 Hello. I'm Barbara Gilbert. 163 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:06,830 ~ There is no-one here to entertain you. They are all abroad. ~ Abroad? 164 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:11,110 They are like Ariel himself - they divide and burn in many places. 165 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:13,390 I was told to ask for Sister Julienne. 166 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:17,670 She is in attendance at the clinic, for our tasks are too many 167 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,430 and our pairs of hands too few. 168 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:24,070 Do you suppose I'm expected there? I'm the new midwife. 169 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,030 You will not find cake there, if that is what you seek. 170 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,630 I venture to suggest that you return at nightfall. 171 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:34,270 I am not trusted to entertain strangers. 172 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:35,910 I trust you. 173 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:37,470 I'm new. 174 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,990 I spent all day on a train sitting in the guard's van with my bike. 175 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,540 And I arrived at Euston late, and then I got lost. 176 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,550 And now everything I own in the world is lying on the pavement. 177 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,390 I need your help. 178 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,590 And some dogs are coming. 179 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:04,110 Put down the bananas. They are superfluous to the situation. 180 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:09,100 No! 181 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:11,750 Stop it! Come back here. 182 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,800 No, bad dog! Very bad dog! 183 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,030 Very bad dog. 184 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:19,990 Excuse me, excuse me. 185 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:21,990 Excuse me. 186 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,270 Bring it back. 187 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,590 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no! 188 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,280 Thank you. 189 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:39,310 I found the paperwork for baby Coral, 190 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,390 though there's none for the other children. 191 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,710 Her mother hasn't brought her to clinic for months - 192 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:45,550 I checked the records. 193 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,270 I also think Coral might have a touch of impetigo, 194 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,990 but it's time for me to give my talk on feeding baby. 195 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,710 You pop off. Leave these two to me. 196 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:57,910 Right then, young man. 197 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:02,070 Courtesy of the National Health, one week's worth of milk tokens, 198 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,430 and a lovely bottle of rosehip syrup. 199 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,310 Haven't you got any orange juice? 200 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,550 Rosehip syrup's lovely. 201 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:13,550 There are just as many vitamins in this as there are in the orange juice. 202 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,550 ~ They put them all in in the factory. ~ Fair enough. 203 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:21,070 If I put these outside for the milkman, would he just leave milk? 204 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:22,750 That's the drill. 205 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:24,990 We haven't got one of those baskets. 206 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,430 The metal ones they put the milk in. 207 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:29,350 If you put the tokens on the step, 208 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,230 I'm sure the milkman will get the message. 209 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:34,110 Is all this free? 210 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,710 Yes. Do take something home for your mother, if you'd like. 211 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,040 Thanks very much. 212 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:46,950 Gary, would you mind waiting here a little bit longer? 213 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,270 I'd like doctor to have a look at Coral. 214 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,030 Is she sick? 215 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:52,470 No. 216 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:55,070 She's just got a little rash next to her nose, 217 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,350 which might be caused by germs getting into the skin. 218 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,700 You wait here until the doctor calls your name. 219 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,120 Okey dokey. 220 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:20,000 Oh, here. Can you manage? Let me help you. 221 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,910 Nurse Gilbert? Welcome. I'm Sister Julienne. 222 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,150 And obviously you've met Sister Monica Joan. 223 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,670 You will take tea before you start your tasks? 224 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:43,430 I should like to say, 225 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:48,990 "Please, assert your preference. Indian or China?" 226 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,550 But there is only Typhoo. 227 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,030 Should I have come in uniform? 228 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:59,950 I would have changed, but there was a bit of trouble with my luggage. 229 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:05,670 There's nothing left for you to do today. Everything's in hand. 230 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,750 As many of you may be aware, some months ago 231 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,540 Dr Turner and I adopted a baby girl. 232 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:14,790 I was a midwife before I married 233 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,350 and I'm here to share some of my own experience 234 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:22,590 with regard to mixing formula and sterilising bottles and so forth. 235 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,350 We would always encourage you to breast feed, 236 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,030 ~ but in some cases it simply isn't possible. ~ Excuse me. 237 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,790 I've been reading a book that says breast milk should be 238 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:32,950 a baby's only form of nourishment. 239 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:34,390 Really? Who wrote that? 240 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:35,910 An American called Dr Spock. 241 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,190 Americans are foreign. They do it all different! 242 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,510 You probably can't even get Carnation evaporated milk over there. 243 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:44,190 I was reared on the stuff. My baby's getting the same. 244 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,070 I was actually going to talk about Carnation. 245 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,390 It makes a splendid topping for dessert 246 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:54,470 but these scientifically developed formulas are much more suitable. 247 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:56,470 But Dr Spock says it isn't just about the milk. 248 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:00,270 It... the act of feeding is just as important. 249 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,430 He says putting the baby to the breast helps the mother to bond with it. 250 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,480 ~ Bond? ~ Well... love, I suppose. 251 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,910 I'm sure nobody here feels they'll love their baby any less just 252 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,390 because it's fed by bottle. 253 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:17,550 I'm just saying what he says. And what Sister Evangelina says. 254 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:19,270 She always says "Breast is best". 255 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:23,910 She said it when I was pregnant with my first and my second and my third. 256 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,150 You're obviously very experienced, Mrs... 257 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,510 Wimbish. And I'm not. I... 258 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,270 I lost all three. This one... 259 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:36,230 This one's my big chance. And it might be my only chance. 260 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,150 And that's why I want to get it right. 261 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,030 Where've you been? 262 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,110 Doing this and that. You look nice! 263 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,470 I have to dress smart for work. 264 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,350 You fancy fishcakes when I come home? 265 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,470 Coral don't like fishcakes. 266 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:01,510 Well, she'll be asleep, won't she? 267 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:06,270 You've earned a fishcake if you want it, my little soldier. 268 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,480 Our key's on the string. Just reach in through the flap. 269 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,590 I did take Mrs Wimbish to one side after the class 270 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,870 but she was still very anxious, even after we'd had a chat. 271 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,230 Timothy, I wish you'd use the waste-paper basket. 272 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:30,550 We don't want pencil shavings in our rissoles. 273 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,990 Fretting about feeding is as much an outlet for her other worries 274 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:35,190 as a genuine concern. 275 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,110 Did she really lose three babies? 276 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:39,430 Yes, all before six months. 277 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,790 I'm letting her have weekly check-ups 278 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,190 in the hope it'll put her mind at rest. 279 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,110 I'm not sure it isn't causing more anxiety. 280 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:48,990 She's fretting about everything. 281 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:53,830 Even feeding - and all that Dr Spock talk upset some other mothers. 282 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:55,950 Breast-feeding isn't always easy. 283 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,030 I've seen women in such pain with mastitis, 284 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,110 or struggling to keep up a routine when they have other little ones. 285 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:03,790 What about the risk of infection? 286 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:05,550 That's why I was giving the class. 287 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:09,150 Feeding a baby from an improperly sterilised bottle is very risky. 288 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:13,070 No, I meant what about the antibodies that mothers pass on in their milk? 289 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:16,750 Breast-fed babies have been found to have significantly fewer 290 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:20,390 bacterial colonisations of the alimentary tract. 291 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:21,950 How do you know that? 292 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,140 I read it in The Lancet. 293 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,590 Your room has been aired but it was unoccupied for a while 294 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,510 so it might smell a little damp. 295 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:36,310 It smells just like home to me. 296 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:38,950 We've got wet rot and dry rot in our vicarage. 297 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,710 Oh, of course. Your father is a... a clergyman, isn't he? 298 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:49,470 We might occasionally have a male police sergeant lodging with us. 299 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,350 So you might want to make sure that you wear your dressing gown 300 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:53,990 when you go to the bathroom, 301 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,310 which is just along there. 302 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,550 Are you sure this is allowed? 303 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:18,390 Well, I'm allowing it. I am Acting Sister every Tuesday. 304 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:22,590 Besides, we can't possibly leave you on your own on your first night. 305 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,710 Gosh, Cinzano Bianco! 306 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:27,310 We're branching out. 307 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:29,470 And it won't be Bianco for very long 308 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,070 because I'm putting some rosehip syrup in it. 309 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:33,150 Are you sure? 310 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,630 Oh, Patsy! We can't give it away at the clinic. 311 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,430 You'd think people were paying, they're so picky! 312 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:40,990 Is it alcoholic? 313 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:42,190 Bianco? 314 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:46,590 Not really. It's more like a sort of fortified wine. 315 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:48,390 Oh. That'll be all right. 316 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,710 I've had Sanatogen tonic wine quite a few times. 317 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:56,670 And this is just as good for you. It's absolutely full of vitamins. 318 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,190 Chin chin! 319 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,580 Coming. I won't be a minute. 320 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,920 Now then. I think we need some more music. 321 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,790 This one, Barbara, is especially for you. 322 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,150 This is Billy Fury and he's from Liverpool. 323 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,670 My boyfriend can't stand him. 324 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,670 You got a boyfriend, Trixie? 325 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,270 Yes, but he's a curate. 326 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:51,710 Forever being distracted by parishioners and good works. 327 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:55,150 It's an occupational hazard. 328 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,950 I'm sorry, Trixie, but I'm with Tom on the topic of Billy Fury. 329 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,390 He sounds as though he's singing at the bottom of a well. 330 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,510 How on earth is one supposed to dance to it? 331 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:06,880 Well, you do a sort of slow foxtrot. Like this. 332 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,070 Do you know, I haven't seen Tom for five days? 333 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:17,190 Strictly entre-nous, 334 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,390 if he doesn't start putting a bit more effort into this romance, 335 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:24,510 it's all just going to fizzle out. And I'll be left on the shelf. 336 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,630 No! No, that won't happen. 337 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,310 You're too nice. 338 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:30,630 Just you wait and see. 339 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:34,190 Meanwhile, poor Patsy hasn't got a chap at all. 340 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,830 We'll be able to start the Ornament Society For Girls On The Shelf, 341 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:40,710 and be the president and founder members. 342 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,910 Fetch the wastepaper basket! No, don't! It's made of wicker. 343 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:45,990 Oh, my good giddy aunt! 344 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,110 Bathroom's just there. 345 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,600 Oh, dear. 346 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:53,720 Oh. Oh, goodness. 347 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,390 There's only one way this is going to end. 348 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,430 I'd get a bit of shut-eye, if I were you. I'll man the decks. 349 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,440 And the mop. 350 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,910 Nurse Franklin? What are you up to? 351 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,030 I'm looking for a milk crate. 352 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,230 I could've sworn I'd seen one in here. 353 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:30,550 Come here. You'll get everything in a right two and eight. 354 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,030 And there's rats in here. 355 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:37,030 You don't want them nibbling at your nylons. 356 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,120 Here. There you go. 357 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,740 It's got a little dial on it and everything. 358 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,630 What do you mean, she ate one of those green crisps? 359 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,550 She had some potato crisps with her sandwich on the train yesterday 360 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,550 and said some of them were quite discoloured. 361 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,990 I've a good mind to write to the manufacturer. The poor girl was sick as a pup till 3.00am. 362 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,230 I know! I heard. It would put you off crisps for life. 363 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,430 Let her rest for the morning. 364 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,910 And give her some milk of magnesia. 365 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,310 That one's empty. 366 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:09,600 So it is. 367 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:18,380 Oh! 368 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,590 ~ Morning, darling. ~ Good morning. 369 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,110 We meet again! 370 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:35,590 Of course. How could I forget? 371 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,790 Any special deliveries today? 372 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:41,790 I do deliveries most days. And they're always special. 373 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,590 Do you know anything about the family who live here? 374 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,430 That flat's been empty about three months, I reckon. 375 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,630 Looks like an eviction, the way it's boarded up. 376 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,620 But they never ordered milk in any case. 377 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,750 Trixie! 378 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,590 Tom! 379 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:09,390 I don't want to make you late but can I ask you something? 380 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:16,870 ♪ They tried to tell us we're too young 381 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:23,800 ♪ Too young to really be in love 382 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,750 ♪ They say that love's a word 383 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,550 ♪ A word we've only heard 384 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,030 ♪ But can't begin to know 385 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:41,790 ♪ The meaning of 386 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,710 ♪ This love will last 387 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,990 ♪ Though years may go 388 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:57,630 ♪ And then some day they may recall 389 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:02,840 ♪ We were not too young at all. ♪ 390 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,790 Lovely to see you. Bye. 391 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,830 Afternoon. My mum sent me for the milk tokens. 392 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,790 The name's Teeman. 393 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,510 Oh, yes. You're down for two pints a day. 394 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,670 Tell your mother to be sure to put them out each morning. 395 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,630 Thanks, Nurse. 396 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,310 He leaves a bit of an aroma in his wake, poor little tyke. 397 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:29,310 Lucky that will soon be a thing of the past, 398 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:31,630 with the new housing and indoor bathrooms. 399 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,190 I didn't notice. 400 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,790 I think the only indoor bathroom in my father's parish was ours. 401 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:38,150 Oh, well done. 402 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,590 You managed to get rid of quite a lot of rosehip syrup. 403 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:45,630 I told them all I drink it myself and really like it. 404 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,550 When did Gary Teeman come in? 405 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,750 A minute or two ago. 406 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,670 I put a note on the list, Barbara! 407 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,350 You were supposed to send for me if he appeared. 408 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:55,670 Oh... 409 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:05,860 Trixie! 410 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,230 Afternoon, Reverend! 411 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,240 Afternoon. 412 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,230 Please be advised I had every intention of kissing you 413 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:21,430 when we first met. 414 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,480 And I had every intention of letting you. 415 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,430 Scotch egg? 416 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,350 You're like a sort of angel sometimes. 417 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,990 I've looked all over Poplar for your little pram-pushing friend. 418 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:39,550 Gary? 419 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:43,030 There are no Teemans on the Cradle Roll, and none at the school. 420 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,670 ~ It's as though they've vanished. ~ And we can't let them. 421 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,550 He was putting on such a brave face, Tom. 422 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,840 I know what that looks like. And I know what it feels like. 423 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:59,110 I know, because I did it when I was a child myself. 424 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,460 Besides, the baby had impetigo. I'm sure of it. 425 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:24,070 Marcy, don't worry. I'm just getting the key. 426 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,980 Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere. 427 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,920 Don't worry. I'll think of something. 428 00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,720 Sit down, Sister. 429 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,390 I've decided that erm, 430 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,590 Nurse Gilbert will benefit from a few days at the Maternity Home. 431 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:12,150 The routine will remind her of hospital, on a more intimate scale. 432 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,990 They're meant to be trained when they come here. 433 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:20,430 She is trained, and qualified. She just... lacks experience. 434 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,750 Well, the Maternity Home can have her with my compliments, 435 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,030 keep her for as long as they like. 436 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:30,070 And I've changed the roster so that you can go there too, 437 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,910 keep an eye on her. 438 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,070 As long as our patients don't suffer, I won't argue. 439 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,790 It... it's not really the patients' suffering that concerns me 440 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,480 at the moment, Sister. It's yours. 441 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,150 I'm not suffering. Whatever gave you that impression? 442 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,270 You push your food away from you at mealtimes. 443 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,590 You've been dosing yourself with Milk of Magnesia. 444 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,910 And today you put your hand to your back in chapel 445 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,710 when we stood to pray. 446 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,270 It's a touch of lumbago. Not getting any younger, no more than you are. 447 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:05,150 There's age and there's illness, Sister. 448 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,430 I would like you to make an appointment with Doctor. 449 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,110 To set all our minds at rest. 450 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:15,070 Have I ever failed to fulfil my duties? 451 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:20,670 Have I ever failed a mother in delivery, or my Sisters in Christ? 452 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,390 ~ No, never. ~ In which case 453 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,430 I suggest you find something else to tie yourself in knots about! 454 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,790 Like the state of this building. 455 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,280 It's Nonnatus House that's got dry rot, not me. 456 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,310 Am I supposed to teach you to use hand signals as well? 457 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:46,950 Sorry, Sister. 458 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,990 I wasn't best pleased with the way your gabardine was flapping. 459 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,980 You are a midwife not a can-can dancer. 460 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,910 Morning, buddy. You're up with the lark. 461 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,990 ~ What's a lark? ~ It's a type of bird. 462 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,430 Do you get 'em in London? 463 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,430 Well, maybe in parks. 464 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,640 Larks in the parks, eh? 465 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,190 Jacquetta! 466 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,230 Jacquetta! 467 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,910 Fetch a cup. 468 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,760 Fetch a cup and bring it to the door. 469 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,040 Hold it up, Jackie. Hold it right up. 470 00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,460 Hold it up, Jackie. 471 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,620 Hold it up, Jackie. 472 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,510 Mrs Wimbish? There's something wrong. There's definitely something wrong. 473 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,670 ~ She's been awake since four o'clock this morning. We think she's having contractions. ~ Sit down. 474 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,160 ~ I'm only seven months! I can't have it now! ~ I'll fetch Doctor. 475 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,070 This is how the others started, George. 476 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,320 It's how they ended, too. 477 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,900 They came too soon. 478 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,550 Your contractions weren't regular and they seem to have petered out. 479 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,750 I think we should pop you into bed here, keep you under observation, 480 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,510 and then transfer you to the London if things start moving. 481 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,270 Will they start moving? Can't you do anything to stop it? 482 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,620 The most important thing for you both is rest. 483 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,190 ~ And er... ~ Anything else? 484 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,870 ~ A box of the Dairy. ~ Dairy box? ~ Yep. 485 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,510 ~ Is that it? ~ That's it, thank you. 486 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,760 Lovely, thanks very much. 487 00:33:23,590 --> 00:33:24,590 Thank you. Thank you. 488 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,070 Oi! Oi! Come here! Come here, you! 489 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,160 Oi! Come here, you thieving....! Come here! 490 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,550 Come here! 491 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,020 Come here, you. 492 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,070 ~ Come here! Come here! ~ Get off me! 493 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,870 Yes, so you can come back tomorrow and rob me blind again, eh? 494 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,430 Luncheon is served! 495 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,110 Did you make that? 496 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,630 No. But I'm supervising the orderly. She's new. 497 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,480 Aren't you lucky? 498 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,390 ~ I daren't tell you what I do for a living. ~ Oh? 499 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,000 I'm a Domestic Science teacher. 500 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,710 Stay calm, Colette. Stay calm. 501 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,840 Have you been practising your breathing exercises? 502 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,270 Sister Evangelina! 503 00:34:22,990 --> 00:34:23,990 Get in there, you. 504 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,390 Got one here, Sergeant - wants teaching a lesson. 505 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,190 And if you don't, I will! 506 00:34:29,240 --> 00:34:31,780 ~ What's he done? ~ Robbed me shop. 507 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,560 Rich Tea? You must have been starving. 508 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,110 Fully dilated. 509 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:44,430 I called the Flying Squad. 510 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,350 I told them a premature baby at 33 weeks is expected 511 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:48,590 and they're on their way. 512 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,590 She might deliver before they get here. 513 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,510 And tell me where the extra heaters are. 514 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,860 Cupboard off the landing, on the left. Quickly. 515 00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,430 It's all right, Colette. 516 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,230 Baby's coming very fast, which is never a picnic. 517 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,870 But on your next contraction, you're probably going to feel the need to push. 518 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:10,620 ~ No, no, no, I try to want to keep him where it's safe. ~ That's it. 519 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,480 Watch where you're walking, Nurse! 520 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,820 That's it, Colette! 521 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:22,950 Yes, come on! 522 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,800 Ah, that's the girl, that's the girl! 523 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:28,710 How much longer? 524 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,460 Well, the next contraction, if you can keep this up. 525 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,910 Come on, now, come on, now. 526 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,830 Ah, this is it! 527 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,820 Yes, yes - come on! 528 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:43,800 Yes! 529 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:56,980 You have a daughter. 530 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:24,830 Mucus extractor. 531 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,390 Is everything all right? 532 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,070 ~ Come on, young lady. ~ What's wrong? 533 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,460 Wakey-wakey! Rise and shine. 534 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,030 Can I see her? 535 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:17,910 Just here. 536 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,510 Oh, my love. 537 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,660 We couldn't wait a moment longer, could we? 538 00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:31,990 Spontaneous vaginal delivery, 33 weeks gestation. 539 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,070 Airways cleared and breathing without help. 540 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:36,750 Where are they taking her? 541 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,710 You leave them to their job, and we'll get on with ours. 542 00:37:48,150 --> 00:37:49,150 Nurse. 543 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,070 Nurse, you're not here to assist them, you're here to assist me! 544 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:56,240 Come here, stand here. Here! Stand there! Give the mother some privacy! 545 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,920 I thought you might fancy a cuppa. 546 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,910 Seeing as how you brought some biscuits with you. 547 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,750 They weren't for me. 548 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:08,110 Not even one of them? 549 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:12,790 I don't get hungry. But my baby sisters, they cry. 550 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,990 They can't wait like I can wait. 551 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,230 Wait for what, Gary? 552 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:18,910 Mum. 553 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,750 She'll bring us chips and stuff, when she comes back. 554 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,470 Back from where? 555 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,120 She goes out. 556 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:28,270 That's no good, is it? 557 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,510 When she goes out, how long is she gone for? 558 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:35,560 Only a night. Or two sometimes. 559 00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:37,870 It's like she says, 560 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,400 everybody has to have something that makes them happy. 561 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,670 ~ Come here. ~ Don't come near me! Don't you bloody come near! 562 00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:51,870 ~ Why not, son? ~ Because I know how bad I smell. And I'm ashamed. 563 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,110 It's all right, son. It's all right. 564 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,660 It isn't. And you wouldn't say that, if you knew. 565 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:00,940 Knew what, Gary? 566 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,670 Why can't I go with her? 567 00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:09,150 Baby's going to need to be very carefully nursed 568 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,190 and kept warm in an incubator, on the premature baby ward. 569 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:17,070 I keep hearing that little cry. 570 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,550 Keeps replaying in my head, like the chorus of a song. 571 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,670 Well, that's something, isn't it? 572 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:24,510 It's all I've got. 573 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,160 Get it open. 574 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,200 What a stink. 575 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,960 Let's get some light in here. 576 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,190 It's all right, everything's fine. It's OK. Shh, shh. 577 00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:07,990 ~ What do we do, Sarge? ~ Get the WPC. And bring their brother in. 578 00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:09,710 Bring the boy. 579 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:20,350 I'm hungry. 580 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:21,670 I'm sorry. 581 00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:24,630 I'm hungry, Gary. 582 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,280 Are you cold? 583 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:29,550 Here. 584 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,630 It'll all be all right now. 585 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:47,030 Hello, Coral. 586 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,350 Take Gary back to the car. 587 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,470 Come with me, luvvie. 588 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,520 Take our baby sister. 589 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,480 Sh, sh, sh, sh, sh. 590 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,640 It's OK. Sh. 591 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,630 When the woman who did this to her children crawls back here, 592 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,280 you're to arrest her for neglect. 593 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:31,820 Let's get her downstairs. Come on. This way. 594 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,030 Would you let me see what it is, Jacquetta? 595 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,280 I won't take it from you. 596 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,710 She's severely dehydrated and running a fever. 597 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,150 There are bruises on Jacquetta's shoulder. 598 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:48,710 I think somebody has shaken her. 599 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,600 They both have fleas. And there's a cigarette burn on Marcy's foot. 600 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,830 ~ Oh, Jesus. ~ Do you need a clean nappy? 601 00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,270 No. We need an ambulance. She'll need intravenous antibiotics 602 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,520 and possibly skin grafts. 603 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,990 Nonnatus House. Midwife speaking? 604 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:09,190 'Nurse Franklin?' 605 00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:12,190 The doctor asks if you can send two nurses on the district roster 606 00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:16,830 over to the surgery. We've had a neglect and cruelty case brought in. 607 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,430 'We're having to get the cleansing station opened.' 608 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:23,470 The cleansing station? Is it really that bad? 609 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:24,910 I shall accompany you. 610 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:28,070 It's not necessary. 611 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:32,350 Once the cleansing stations never closed. 612 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,190 We were there so often, 613 00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:38,230 ridding the most wretched of whatever filth encrusted them. 614 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:45,030 It was never pleasant work, but that it was necessary was not in doubt. 615 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,710 It will not shock me. 616 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,280 And it is work that I can do. 617 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,200 This young fellow needs to be kissed and held also. 618 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:12,430 But I do not think you can help him, 619 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:17,630 unless you give me that package you're taking such good care of. 620 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:19,950 I've spoken to Social Services. 621 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,510 They said there are no emergency foster parents 622 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,110 who can take all three tonight. 623 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,260 I have retrieved the item she has cherished. 624 00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:32,720 ~ It appears to be some species of condiment. ~ Bisto. 625 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:45,080 Sweetie. Have you been eating the stuff in that packet? 626 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:47,680 I was hungry. 627 00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:53,750 Well! 628 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,640 It's not quite Vidal Sassoon, but I'm sure we can make the best of it. 629 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,270 What's Vidal Sassoon? 630 00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,560 It's an absolutely splendid salon, all the way up west! 631 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:10,630 There are mirrors from floor to ceiling and golden chandeliers, 632 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:16,680 and the minute you walk in, all you can smell is shampoo and red roses. 633 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:22,430 However, we're also rather famous for our shampoo and sets 634 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,280 at Maison Trixie. 635 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,620 We run quite a good service for young men too. 636 00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,960 ~ Hello, Gary! ~ Is the water nice? 637 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:42,350 We've got rid of the fleas, but the nits are tenacious. 638 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,800 Their scalps are best shaved. 639 00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,160 ~ I am preparing the razor. ~ No! No! 640 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,670 ~ But if it's for the best... ~ People will think we're poor! 641 00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:56,470 ~ People will feel sorry for us! ~ Gary's quite right. 642 00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,350 There's nothing the matter with these children's heads 643 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,390 that a bit of time and attention to detail can't cure. 644 00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,910 We have plenty of the former... 645 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,100 .. and the latter costs nothing. 646 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,310 ~ Don't turn the light off. ~ Don't worry. 647 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,300 No-one needs to sleep in the dark here. 648 00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,420 Sweet dreams, sweeties. 649 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,750 ~ There's no need for that. ~ You do it for me 650 00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,190 every time I get called out at night. 651 00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:03,520 ~ There's so much love in this house, isn't there? ~ So much. 652 00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,720 And sometimes so little in the world outside. 653 00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,120 Can I tell you something, Patrick? 654 00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:16,870 You can tell me anything, 655 00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,350 and I hope you always will. 656 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,140 I miss nursing and I miss midwifery. 657 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,500 I think nursing and midwifery miss you, too. 658 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,470 Don't think I'm saying I want to go back to work. 659 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,390 I can't sign up for shifts, 660 00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,720 I can't go out in the middle of the night to deliver babies. 661 00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,160 But I do yearn for... 662 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:47,000 .. that sense of making things better... 663 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,150 .. of putting things to rights. 664 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:52,600 So do I. 665 00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:58,510 You do a hard job, Patrick. 666 00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:00,960 A lonely one too. 667 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:04,750 But it doesn't have to be. 668 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:10,790 What are you doing now? 669 00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,470 There are rules about you and the gas. 670 00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,670 You think me likely to cause a conflagration? 671 00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:19,480 Yes. Or blow us all sky-high! 672 00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,110 You are in pain again. 673 00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:28,550 And water will not cure it, be it cold or hot 674 00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,670 or sealed within a rubber bottle. 675 00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:35,230 Soon you will be disqualified from work, 676 00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,070 just as I am by the fractures of my mind. 677 00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,310 You seem sharp enough tonight, 678 00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,860 dishing out advice and toasting your own crumpets. 679 00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:51,960 See? 680 00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:56,380 You are more necessary than you might imagine. 681 00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:03,240 If you do not consult a doctor, who is to say where it will end? 682 00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,390 Blood pressure and a check of your stitches, Colette. 683 00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,510 If I can give another good report to Sister Evangelina, 684 00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:21,060 you might be allowed to sit in a chair for a bit this afternoon. 685 00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,510 My milk's come in! 686 00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,590 If it's not my waters breaking, I'm crying. 687 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:29,990 If I'm not crying, I'm leaking milk! 688 00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:33,040 If I lose any more liquid this bed will start floating. 689 00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,910 We can give you Epsom salts to stop you lactating. 690 00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,790 I don't want to dry it up, this is my baby's milk. 691 00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,270 I don't even know what they're feeding her on. 692 00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:45,910 Please let me try it, Sister. 693 00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,670 Colette can express her milk manually every three hours 694 00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:51,590 and we can take it to the hospital to be kept in the refrigerator 695 00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:52,910 and given to her baby. 696 00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,790 And how much time is that going to take out of everybody's day? 697 00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:56,790 My day! 698 00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,830 I can get there and back, by bike, in not more than half an hour. 699 00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:02,990 And I can take the milk in batches, morning and evening. 700 00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:07,760 ~ You always say breast milk is best. ~ Where do you get your energy from? 701 00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:15,320 Oh, what sad faces. 702 00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,910 I don't like to see sad faces. 703 00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,160 Oh, look! What's this? 704 00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,350 Shall I press it? 705 00:49:30,240 --> 00:49:32,380 That's better, isn't it? 706 00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:35,990 You have a go, that's it. 707 00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:40,510 Well done! That's a good noise! 708 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,030 Oh! And you! Oh, I like that... 709 00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:54,510 We've found them an excellent short-term foster home. 710 00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,990 The children will be kept together, can even share a bedroom. 711 00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,430 I managed to find quite a few spare pairs of knickers for Marcy. 712 00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,870 You'll have to tell whoever's looking after her that she's 713 00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,470 not entirely reliable on the toilet training front. 714 00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:10,260 Please come and say goodbye to them. 715 00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:15,950 No. 716 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,740 I'd rather not. 717 00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:22,830 Trixie. We all meet with cases that touch us more than others... 718 00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,230 Gary and his sisters aren't a case, Tom! 719 00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,080 They're children! 720 00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,470 And Gary was playing the cheeky chappy, 721 00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:32,630 just like I used to play little Shirley Temple 722 00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,670 when I was a child 723 00:50:35,720 --> 00:50:38,320 and my father had his breakdowns. 724 00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:49,520 You don't forget what it's like to be putting on a show... 725 00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:55,190 .. wishing all the time that somebody, anybody who can help, will say, 726 00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:57,510 "Is something the matter?" 727 00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,630 And hoping all the time that nobody does, 728 00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,280 because you have so much to hide. 729 00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,880 If I could rub all that out for you, I would. 730 00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,190 If I could take every scrap of unhappiness 731 00:51:14,240 --> 00:51:17,400 you've ever had away, I would. 732 00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:21,030 And you can't. 733 00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:25,150 But just standing here, with you, 734 00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:29,120 hearing you say that, reminds me that I've survived it. 735 00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:34,580 And that others might not if we don't help. 736 00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:39,240 Now. Don't forget to tell the foster mother about the knickers. 737 00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:12,670 Good night. 738 00:52:12,720 --> 00:52:14,260 Good night. 739 00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,110 You can tell me where my kids are any time you like. 740 00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:48,670 I think you'll find your kids are no concern of yours any more. 741 00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:51,670 I'll have you know I was out working to support them. 742 00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:55,350 Family allowance doesn't go nowhere when a father legs it. 743 00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,670 Where exactly do you work, Mrs Teeman? 744 00:52:57,720 --> 00:53:00,060 In a licensed establishment. 745 00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:04,120 It's in Notting Hill so I have to commute. 746 00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:08,750 The hours are good if you've got children. 747 00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,230 When I'm at home, I'm at home all day. 748 00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,190 I'll take a statement from you at the station. 749 00:53:14,240 --> 00:53:16,550 I shall be stating that my water was cut off, 750 00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:18,790 which is why this place stinks the way it does. 751 00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:22,430 I'm on a list to be rehoused but the council have done nothing. 752 00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:24,830 Just like the doctor did nothing when I went to him 753 00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:27,630 ~ and asked to have my tubes tied. ~ You're under arrest, Mrs Teeman. 754 00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,150 You'll be allowed to speak to a solicitor in due course. 755 00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:32,630 ~ I didn't ask for any of this. ~ And neither did your children. 756 00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:34,420 We did our best. 757 00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:37,740 We all did our best. 758 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,510 Is the baby all right? 759 00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:44,560 Take her to the car. 760 00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:53,950 ~ What's this? ~ Open it. 761 00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:05,310 A meringue? 762 00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:07,310 With a cherry on, 763 00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,110 and some angelica, 764 00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,100 because I know those are your favourite. 765 00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,580 ~ Do you want me to eat it now? ~ Not just yet. 766 00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:26,760 Because what I really want to give you is this. 767 00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:33,430 ~ It was my grandmother's. ~ What a... surprise. 768 00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:35,310 Don't say that, Trixie, 769 00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,870 because if it really is, it probably means you don't want 770 00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,990 to be my wife quite as much as I want to be your husband. 771 00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:42,640 Oh, Tom... 772 00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:51,310 Every day I talk about love - 773 00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,430 the love of God, 774 00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:54,910 love divine, 775 00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:56,960 love thy neighbour... 776 00:54:57,680 --> 00:54:59,950 .. all love's excelling... 777 00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:07,000 .. but I don't think I ever really knew what it meant... 778 00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:11,740 .. until I realised how much you meant. 779 00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:14,520 And mean. 780 00:55:23,720 --> 00:55:25,560 Say yes. 781 00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:30,880 Please say yes. 782 00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:38,160 Yes. 783 00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,190 You're looking very spruce, Mrs Turner. 784 00:56:00,240 --> 00:56:04,950 I'm officially taking on the role of medical secretary. 785 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:06,630 Dr Turner is busier than ever 786 00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,680 and the practice needs proper management. 787 00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:14,720 Seems like a reasonable arrangement. There's certainly work to do. 788 00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:19,070 I want you to make an appointment with a doctor. 789 00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:23,480 But I don't mean Doctor Turner, I need to see a female one. 790 00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:31,550 Do you have... women's problems, Sister? 791 00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:33,640 Yes. Very much so. 792 00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,750 'It sometimes happens that new beginnings 793 00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,750 'come not at once, but at last. 794 00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:59,670 'The wait is rewarded and the fresh start can commence. 795 00:56:59,720 --> 00:57:03,510 'But we can never know how the story will conclude, 796 00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,990 'and perhaps that's for the better. 797 00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:09,390 'Baby Coral was adopted 798 00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,870 'and her three elder siblings were sent to Australia 799 00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,910 'under the child migrant programme. 800 00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:19,030 'They were promised a life of sunshine, blue skies, 801 00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:20,950 'and endless opportunity. 802 00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,910 'The truth was otherwise. 803 00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:28,470 'And the only consolation is that hope made them happy, 804 00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:30,560 'for a while.' 805 00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:54,150 'Joy is not felt less exquisitely because the moment flies. 806 00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:59,200 'And if we can taste it, we know that we are blessed. 807 00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:07,550 Phyllis Crane, SRN SCM. I am expected. 808 00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:10,510 If Nurse Crane doesn't approve of the way we run this ship, 809 00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:11,670 we will end up sinking! 810 00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,710 ~ How many years has it been? ~ Not quite 30. 811 00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,830 Still the pale, sweet girl with the wave in her fringe. 812 00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:20,270 You came to a decision, Louise. 813 00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:21,990 I need to see a doctor! 814 00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:23,840 Please don't cry. 815 00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:26,590 You are perturbed. 816 00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,200 You strive to hide it, but you do not succeed.