Laura Main

It's 1966, and it's a testing time for the midwives. But there's excitement, too, as the women's rights movement intensifies. With Trixie's help, Sister Julienne is determined to steer Nonnatus House of its financial quandary. Dr. Turner deals with an array of difficult cases including a former soldier involved in nuclear test explosion. Meanwhile, Sister Monica Joan experiences a crisis of faith, and Sister Frances realizes she needs to be a little...

"In the old houses and bold new apartment buildings of 1963 London, expectant mothers need more help than ever from the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House"--Container.

The life and times of a group of midwives working at Nonnatus House--a nursing convent serving the impoverished of East London in the late 1950s and early 1960s--are chronicled in this appealing British series based on true events. The women learn powerful lessons about life's struggles while visiting with expectant mothers and poor children.

The team reunites but all is not well when a change of management shakes up Nonnatus House.

Valerie Dyer oversees the care of an expectant Somali woman.

The legacy of thalidomide becomes apparent and Nurse Crane faces an unexpected crisis.

The midwives open a family planning clinic and Tom and Barbara have a wedding to plan.

The pressures of modern Britain reach Poplar as a hospital secondment and a difficult birth raise moral questions for Sister Julienne. Trixie and Tom help a family breaking apart under the pressure of a son's dreams for the future.

Easter, 1961. The nuns and midwives are shaken by the birth of a baby with severe, unexplained deformities. Meanwhile, Trixie begins teaching her brand new fitness classes, but an embarrassing incident for one member of her group makes her question the relationship between women and their bodies.

Rumors spread around Poplar that a sailor with smallpox is hiding somewhere in town.