'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 10 Episode 3

This week our return to Poplar finds Sister Julienne still desperate for a solution to the Nonnatus money woes and Sister Monica Joan not yet emerging from her metaphysical conundrum despite the well-meaning but unwanted assistance from a visiting vicar.

As we’ve come to expect, Call the Midwife offers insight into medicine as it was practiced at the time, in this case, the mid-1960’s. Both of our patient storylines this time involve women with conditions that, while not new, are beginning to be looked at in a different way.

First off, we meet Louise Wrigley (Jenny Walser), a distraught young woman who shows up at the clinic, insisting she must be pregnant. Tests and a physical exam are conclusive she is not with child, but her complaints of debilitating stomach pains, blood in her urine, and vomit make her case a puzzling one. After being discharged from St. Cuthbert’s with no suspected kidney infection, Louise latches on to the calm and sympathetic Sister Hilda and Dr. Turner for help.