'Call the Midwife' Celebrates Mother's Day in the Season 13 Finale

Call the Midwife celebrates mothers every week, but the Season 13 finale went all out to highlight maternal instincts and surrogate mothers in all forms. The season-ender began with the announcement of the Poplar Mother of the Year competition with the grand prize of a brand new washing machine (fancy!).

From there, the episode explored the various definitions of mother. Nurse Turner (Laura Main) questioned if she would remain May's (April Rae Hoang) mother as the investigation into May's placement continued. The final hurdle was having May speak to her birth mother over the phone, and the young girl confirmed that she was happy with her British family and would like to stay with the Turners. We are so happy to see this issue finally put to bed.

You know that if something works out on Call the Midwife, then something else will be determined to make us cry shortly afterward. The need for an entire box of tissues in this episode came from Miss Higgins (Georgie Glen), who we learned gave up a baby for adoption when she lived in India in the 1920s. Her adult son, Victor (Rez Kempton), traveled to England and wished to meet her. They had a joyful reunion, learning about each other and eating welks by the seaside before Victor collapsed. It turns out traveling across continents aggravated his kidney disease, pushing them into failure just as he and Miss Higgins were getting to know each other.