'Call the Midwife' Holiday Special 2019 Recap
Happy Christmas! If you're reading this, you must have just recently watched the annual Call the Midwife holiday episode. Our friends from Poplar have hit the road once again, this time to help an isolated Scottish community with a serious shortage of medical personnel. Let's take a look back at this visually beauiful and emotionally heartwarming episode.
It’s December 1964 and a fair number of Nonnatus House residents are suffering from a nasty virus. Reinforcements from the Mother House have been assigned to Poplar so with auxiliary nuns in place, Mother Mildred suggests the recovering midwives should go away for the holidays to convalesce.
In private, the Superior admits to Sister Julienne that her true purpose for suggesting this excursion is less about recuperation and more about expanding the order’s reach of service to the Scottish Outer Hebrides. The remote area has lost its only district nurse to marriage and Mother Mildred has two intentions - to temporarily fill the village's healthcare void and to put out feelers concerning the installment of another branch of Nonnatus midwives.
