'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 6, Episode 1
Welcome back to Call the Midwife Season 6! I’m looking forward to recapping another series and chatting with my fellow Midwife fans about it. We already know that the show has been renewed for three more seasons beyond this one so we’re nowhere near the end. Nonetheless, if you’ve been watching this drama for any period of time, you know some measure of heartbreak or hardship is certainly in store for us over the next eight weeks. So grab a cocktail of your choice (Grasshopper or Brandy Alexander with condensed milk for a velvety, luxurious taste, anyone?) and join in as we review the highs and lows of tonight’s Call the Midwife episode.
It’s spring 1962 and a large contingent of Nonnatus House residents, along with the Turners, Fred and Vicar Tom, have just returned from their New Year’s mission trip in South Africa. Only Trixie has stayed behind with the explanation being that she’s on loan for two months to the Hope Clinic.
Apparently the foray into Africa was quite life changing in more ways than one. We already witnessed Tom and Barbara becoming engaged in a field during the Christmas special. Now we, along with Dr. Turner, discover that his wife Shelagh is quite miraculously pregnant.
