#ctm s8

Have i mentioned I love call the midwife?

Sister Hilda: Yes Mrs Sharp it is me, and you sound very much alive to me

We are all Sister Monica Joan

Val’s reaction and her argument with her beloved Nan were heartbreakingly perfect. Because the tricky thing is - Elsie isn’t a villain, we and Val know that she didn’t intend to hurt anyone, she thought she was doing something helpful. Val clearly supports helping mother’s who are stuck and have an unwanted pregnancy. Val and her Nan have both expressed growing up seeing women stuck in awful situations, and families trapped by poverty and lack of options. But Val also knows that what her Nan is doing and the way her Nan is doing it is misguided and dangerous and killing people. As a granddaughter Val is shocked and  heartbroken and as a nurse Val is disgusted and horrified. She knows that her Nan doesn’t have enough understanding of what she’s doing or even have safe equipment and environments and so is butchering women, but the fact her Nan can’t see that astounds Val. The pain and disappointment in Val’s realisation of what her Nan was doing was palpable. 

Very glad sister Hilda is bonding with patients more and so proud of Sister Frances for wanting to do something to help in such tricky situation,seeking advice and doing it. She's come out of her shell so much

TV Times 23 February - 1 March 2019