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As Poplar celebrates a white Christmas, an unexpected SOS call from the Mother House interrupts festivities. Hope Clinic, a tiny mission hospital in South Africa that has links to the Order, is threatened with closure. Sister Julienne swiftly procures the help of Sister Winifred, Trixie, Barbara, Nurse Crane, Dr. Turner, Shelagh, Fred and Tom Hereward and they are soon transported to South Africa to try and save the clinic.
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As Poplar prepares for Christmas, the nuns leave for the Mother House to vote in a new mother superior and to help care for a group of Chinese orphans. Meanwhile, Trixie returns to Poplar refreshed and is shocked to discover that many mothers no longer want to give birth at home.
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It's 1963 and Poplar is covered by a thick blanket of snow as the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House face the challenge of the coldest winter in three hundred years. Battling against snow, ice, power cuts and frozen pipes, the midwives brave the elements to provide the best possible care for their patients.
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Call the Midwife ; 7
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The maternity home sees two school friends reunited and their lives become intertwined in the most unexpected way. Elsewhere, Barbara and Sister Mary Cynthia team up to implement a revolutionary technique on their bedsore patient before it is discovered that it is his steadfast wife who is the one most in need of care.
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Call the Midwife ; 6
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Barbara helps a pregnant mother-of-two whose husband has recently died.
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Call the Midwife ; 4
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Sister Julienne is drawn into the heart of a different culture.
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Call the Midwife ; 5
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Rumors spread around Poplar that a sailor with smallpox is hiding somewhere in town.
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Call the Midwife ; 3
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Sister Julienne receives a phone call from Holloway Prison where the Salvation Army, who normally provide midwifery for female inmates, have been struck down with influenza. She is called to care for the women and asks Trixie to help her. Shelagh suffers heartbreak when a routine pregnancy check turns out to be something far more serious.
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Call the Midwife ; 3
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Nurse Crane and Trixie investigate when a mother abandons her children at the clinic.
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Call the Midwife ; 1
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The winter continues, and the team at Nonnatus House welcome their newest midwife.
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Call the Midwife ; 4
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Jenny is seconded to a short staffed London Hospital to work on the male surgical ward and finds herself working under an intimidating surgeon, Mr Tracey. Back in Poplar the midwives have a new addition to the household, Jane, who lends a hand in Jenny's absence.
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Call the Midwife ; 2
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Barbara faces her most challenging case to date when she treats first-time mother Abigail Bissette and the birth does not go according to plan. As Sister Julienne struggles with the increasing financial pressure on Nonnatus House, a mystery benefactor comes to the rescue. Elsewhere Sister Evangelina is unimpressed by newly arrived nurse Phyllis Crane.
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Call the Midwife ; 4
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Jenny is concerned that a Jewish patient, Leah, is struggling to cope with her mother's sickness and agoraphobia, on top of her own pregnancy. But with the arrival of her granddaughter, Mrs. Rubin takes her first steps in years. Jenny rushes to Alec's side when he is in a terrible accident and Shelagh tries to cope with her bad news.
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Call the Midwife ; 6
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Valerie Dyer oversees the care of an expectant Somali woman.
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Call the Midwife ; 4
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A baby girl, recently delivered by Jenny, is snatched from her carriage, causing great anguish to her family and uniting the local community as they search for the missing child. Meanwhile Cynthia witnesses another type of loss as she assists in the case
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Call the Midwife ; 4
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An expectant mother buckles under the strains of pregnancy, as Tom provides pastoral care.
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Call the Midwife ; 6
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As the midwives set off for their rounds, they get waylaid by Tom, the local curate, and Fred, who are trying to spruce up an old bus outside Nonnatus House. Tom is clearly keen on Trixie and asks if she would like to join him for a day of cricket. Patsy appears to be struggling to adapt to the unpredictable and chaotic working life that midwifery brings.
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Call the Midwife ; 5
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Sister Julienne and Cynthia are busy packaging up donated clothing for charity. Dr Turner suggests that Shelagh takes over the running of Nonnatus House so that an exhausted Sister Julienne can recuperate. Nonnatus House also sees the arrival of new nurse, Patsy. Her no nonsense, hard-working attitude and sense of humor means she's an immediate hit with the nuns and midwives.
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