Episodes
Published 05/28/23
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Published 12/18/22
This week we're talking about Call the Midwife's season four Christmas special. On this episode Jenny in the present prepares for Christmas and thinks about the past, and Chummy and Patsy visit the Mother and Baby home.
Published 09/19/21
This week we're talking about Call the Midwife's season three finale. On this episode Chummy prepares for her mother's immanent death, and Jenny decides to change her vocation.
Published 07/04/21
This week we're talking about the seventh episode of season three of Call the Midwife. On this episode, Jenny returns from leave, but opts to work at the London because she’s not ready for district care yet, and Cynthia and Sister Julienne have a patient whose postpartum anxieties spiral into paranoia and psychosis.
Published 06/27/21
This week we're talking about the sixth episode of season three of Call the Midwife. On this episode, Patsy starts working with patients at Nonatus House, but her bedside manner leaves something to be desired, and Trixie and Tom have a date that doesn’t go as planned.
Published 06/21/21
This week we're talking about the fifth episode of season three of Call the Midwife. On this episode, Sister Evangelina is reluctant to celebrate her Jubilee, and the midwives try to care for an unexpected patient at St. Gideon’s Home.
Published 06/13/21
This week we're talking about the fourth episode of season three of Call the Midwife. On this episode Sister Winifred has a patient whose mother hasn't left the apartment in twelve years, Shelagh starts a choir, and Alec has a serious fall.
Published 06/06/21
This week we're talking about the third episode of season three of Call the Midwife. On this episode Sister Julienne and Trixie provide care for women in prison, and Jenny has a patient who just wants to look pretty.
Published 05/30/21
This week we're talking about the second regular episode of season three of Call the Midwife. On this episode Cynthia tries to teach natural childbirth and relaxation to expectant mothers of Poplar, and Jenny has a patient with no good choices.
Published 05/24/21
This week we're talking about the second regular episode of season three of Call the Midwife. On this episode Cynthia tries to teach natural childbirth and relaxation to expectant mothers of Poplar, and Jenny has a patient with no good choices.
Published 05/23/21
This week we're talking about the Christmas special that aired between seasons two and three. We aired this episode out of order with the last one; sorry about the confusion! On this episode of Call the Midwife Shelagh tries to prepare herself to marry Patrick, and there is an unexploded bomb in Poplar.
Published 05/16/21
Published 05/09/21
Poplar Opinion is going to take a short break before we start recapping season 3 of Call the Midwife. That break doesn't mean we have nothing, though! During that break we'll air a few birth stories from real life. Today Victoria is sharing the story of her own birth. If you would like to share a birth story on Poplar Opinion, send it to us and we'll include it either before season 3 or else in the break between seasons 3 and 4!
Published 08/30/20
This week we'e talking about the eighth and final episode of season two of Call the Midwife. On this episode Chummy gets ready to give birth to her baby, and the residents of Nonatus House receive some surprising and upsetting news.
Published 07/26/20
This week we'e talking about the seventh episode of season two of Call the Midwife. On this episode Cynthia has an angry patient with diabetes, Jenny has a patient from the West Indies who is the object of her neighbours' racism, and Sister Bernadette spends time recovering from tuberculosis and ruminating on her life choices.
Published 07/19/20