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00:28I'll see you next time
00:36I'll see you next time
01:16I'll see you next time
01:40I must have been mad
01:42I could have been an air hostess
01:44I could have been a model
01:46I could have moved to Paris
01:47Or been a concert pianist
01:49I could have seen the world
01:51Been brave
01:52Followed my heart
01:54But I didn't
01:55I sidestepped love
01:58And set off for the east end of London
02:00Because I thought
02:01It would be easier
02:04Madness was the only explanation
02:10I am not a whore
02:15Only because he never paid you
02:16Well I had him weeping with gratitude
02:19There was my husband
02:20And I'll bloody kill him once I've finished with you
02:25Ladies lay off me
02:26I'll hide it in
02:29Come on
02:30Come on
02:37Come on
02:37Come on
02:38Come on
02:38Come on
02:38Come on
02:38Come on
02:53Constable
02:54Mrs. Winston would appreciate your tunic
03:00And don't get any blood on it
03:02It would seem worse
03:11Midwifery is the very stuff of life
03:16Every child is conceived in love or lust
03:20And born in pain followed by joy
03:23Or by tragedy and anguish
03:27Every birth is attended by a midwife
03:30She is in the thick of it
03:32She sees it all
03:55I knew nothing of poverty or appalling housing
03:59Nothing of lice
04:01Of filth
04:03Of families sleeping four to a bed
04:05And nothing of the passion that brings on baby after baby
04:10Labour after labour
04:12I knew nothing of life itself
04:15Is that all because of what of
04:16Amin am Iiod現
04:16And look
04:24at Me I
04:24It
04:25was
04:25be I knew
04:26it What do
04:32I want Was I
04:32it about Megan
04:45They've
04:45Hello, I'm Jennifer Lee. I was told to report to the matron in charge.
04:50Venus and Saturn are now in alignment.
04:53It is entirely appropriate that you should appear.
04:56Welcome to Nonata's house.
05:00What do you suppose that is?
05:03One hears of visitors from realms apart from ours.
05:08I think it's an aeroplane.
05:15From the extreme height of your heels, I deduce that you are not a nun.
05:19Are you a nun?
05:21We are the sisters of St. Raymond Nonatus, midwives and district nurses, present at life's commencement and at its end.
05:30I assume you are possessed of the appropriate credentials.
05:34I'm a trained nurse and I've just qualified as a midwife.
05:39The blooms upon this table are my especial care.
05:43Dear St. Raymond Nonatus, happy survivor of caesarean section.
05:52I feel we are prompted to go in search of cake.
05:59They think they can conceal things from me.
06:03But they are not sharp enough.
06:07I, you see, am attuned to feel vibrations.
06:12Only last week, I found a Battenberg hidden inside a riso box.
06:34You must have another slice.
06:37I'm almost full.
06:39You are young.
06:40You can never be filled.
06:42You have an appetite for life.
06:58Oh, hello.
07:00You must be Nurse Lee.
07:02I'm Sister Julienne.
07:04This is Nurse Miller and Nurse Franklin, who will be your colleagues.
07:10Hello.
07:10Please to meet me.
07:12Actually, please doesn't fully cover it.
07:14We're perfectly thrilled to have some reinforcements.
07:16I'm sorry we're late.
07:18Clinic was busy.
07:20I see you've already met Sister Monica Joan.
07:23Yes, I have.
07:24We'll take care of the formalities later.
07:26I'm sure that first you'd like some tea and cake.
07:28I think you'll find, Sister Julienne, there is no cake.
07:34Sister Evangelina, may I introduce Nurse Lee?
07:40There's nothing in this pot but crumbs.
07:43But Mrs B made one this morning.
07:44I saw her when I came in for my delivery in Mitre Street.
07:47I know she did, and it was coconut,
07:49which is a very insinuating ingredient,
07:51liable to smear itself all over the consumer's face.
07:55Are you talking to me?
07:57You must calm yourself, my dear.
07:59You are turning quite scarlet.
08:02Our newcomer was hungry.
08:05Oh, Nurse Franklin, go into the kitchen.
08:08You might seek out something else to eat.
08:10I seem to recall a packet of gypsy creams.
08:12Let's hear Mrs B has put a lock on the tin.
08:15I bet the newcomer had one slice,
08:17then you ate all the rest.
08:20If I were a dog, she would not be satisfied
08:23until I had slunk beneath the table
08:25with my tail between my legs.
08:27Are you all foam and fret?
08:30I shall retire to my chamber
08:32and see you all at Compton.
08:47Come in.
08:52Sister Monica Joan
08:53was one of the first midwives to qualify in England.
08:57Her family did not approve of her career choice,
08:59nor did they support her
09:01and her entry into religious life.
09:04It is our privilege to care for her.
09:07I see.
09:09It's just...
09:12I ate at least four slices of that cake
09:15and I didn't realise I was coming to a convent.
09:18Oh, dear.
09:21Did you get a dreadful fright?
09:23I thought it was a small private hospital.
09:26Well, I do hope you won't run away.
09:28Do you have a faith, Nurse Lee?
09:31Not really.
09:32I'm Church of England.
09:33Oh, we're Anglican too.
09:35The way you worship is your own affair.
09:38We wear the habit, you wear your uniform,
09:39but we are all nurses first
09:42and midwives foremost.
09:44I'm just back from Mrs. Driscoll.
09:46Baby's turned, no longer breach.
09:48Uh, Sister Bernadette, this is Nurse Lee.
09:50Oh, greetings.
09:52She's only in early first-stage labour,
09:54so I gave her chloral hydrate and left her to sleep.
09:57Thank you, Sister.
09:57Do try and get some rest.
09:59I'll see to these first.
10:01I can never dim tools
10:03till I'm all set up and ready to go again.
10:06Now, a maternity box is sent to the mother's home
10:09two weeks before the due date.
10:10These are the tools you will carry yourself.
10:12Tin box for soap and nail brush,
10:16canvas case containing scissors, dressings, forceps.
10:21Do continue.
10:23A gauze sterile, gauze ideoform,
10:28pinard, enema funnel, enema syringe, rectal tube.
10:35And, uh, glass.
10:38And second rectal tube,
10:39because the first one breaks.
10:41Also glass.
10:43You are charged with this now.
10:45Guard it well.
10:48And we will make no further mention of the cake.
11:11You are charged.
11:14You are charged.
11:16Oh, yes.
11:20Will you stay?
11:29Mrs. Warren?
11:57Hello?
12:11Hello?
12:12Hello?
12:30I'm looking for Mrs. Warren.
12:34Mama, it's the matrona.
12:40Welcome to my house.
12:43I'm awfully sorry.
12:44I'm afraid I don't speak Spanish, Mrs. Warren.
12:46She's saying welcome to our own.
12:48She's all right.
12:49She knows the drills.
12:52How many previous pregnancies have you had, Mrs. Warren?
12:56¿Cuántos?
12:5722 embarazos, pero 24 niños.
13:0022 pregnancies, but she had two sets of twins.
13:03There's 24 of us all together.
13:0524?
13:07But you've hardly got any stretch marks.
13:09I don't know the word for that, so I can't translate it.
13:12I'll need to ask your mother some questions so we can establish dates.
13:17When did you last have a period, Mrs. Warren?
13:18Can't ask her that.
13:19She's me mum.
13:24Dad, is that you?
13:26The nurse is here and she's asking really embarrassing questions.
13:29Yeah, well, come down here and see to Denise.
13:32Ooh, needs her drawers changing.
13:34Don't you, Miley?
13:34Don't you, Miley?
13:35Don't.
13:35Mwah.
13:38See ya.
13:39Yeah.
13:39Come on.
13:40Yeah, you said.
13:41Let's fill you out, shall we?
13:43I reckon she's known.
13:45Oh, yeah.
13:48Me, Lynn.
13:50You were even lovely than when you first got up this morning.
13:55I'm afraid I need to ask your wife some questions of her personal nature, Mr. Warren.
13:59Do you need to know about her periods?
14:04Well, yes, I do.
14:06No, well, she hasn't had none of them in years.
14:08She's had all the babies one after the other.
14:15Well, when do you reckon it's due, then?
14:17Er, 12 or 13 weeks, I think.
14:20Well, don't let us hold you up, nurse.
14:22That's all we need to know.
14:23This is a booking-in visit.
14:25I'm supposed to advise the expectant mother on diet and hygiene in the home.
14:32I've got some leaflets.
14:33Don't you worry about us, nurse.
14:35We've had 24 babies, haven't we?
14:37We ain't never lost one yet.
14:45I don't know where to turn or how to take my leaf.
14:48They seem completely unconcerned.
14:50About the pregnancy or the mess?
14:52The pregnancy and the mess.
14:54They only had eyes for each other.
14:55Exactly.
14:56Look where it's got them.
14:58And how can anyone have 24 children and still look so young?
15:01Now you've opened a lovely jar of wams.
15:04Because she was 14 when she had her first.
15:06She may even have been younger.
15:08Mr. Warren brought her back from the Spanish Civil War.
15:10Most men would be happy with some enemy binoculars.
15:13She was his beaker full of the warm south,
15:16with beaded bubbles winking at the brim.
15:21I know not why you seek to scorn me.
15:24I am merely quoting Keith.
15:26I delivered to Conchita's last little girl.
15:29And do you know, Mr. Warren never left her side.
15:31What?
15:32Her father stayed in the room.
15:33If I was a policeman, I would ask questions.
15:36The policeman did ask questions.
15:38She was of interest to us when she disembarked at Tilbury.
15:41But the rector wanted them married.
15:43So every legal obstacle was simply waved away.
15:50See, I am not deemed capable of coherent recollection.
15:56But some things are etched upon my membrane.
15:59They are preserved like...
16:03like watermarks on vellum.
16:09Oh, come on.
16:10Stir your stumps on first call and you're coming with me.
16:23There are between 80 and 100 babies born each month in Poplar.
16:28As soon as one vacates its cram, another one takes its place.
16:33And thus it was, and ever shall be,
16:36until such time as they invent a magic potion to put a stop to it.
16:42Mr. Vangelina.
16:43Good afternoon.
16:54Midwives!
16:57She's upstairs in bed.
16:59Painting her every ten minutes.
17:01And I've got the hot water on.
17:04Yes, for good.
17:06Cup of tea, Sister Evangelina.
17:08We shall have one apiece.
17:09Put some extra condensed milk in those leaves.
17:11She's very junior and needs to keep her strength up.
17:14Less than this, you've any cake.
17:15Hey, you're down to the shop, fetch some devil splits.
17:19Fresh cream or artificial, Dodd?
17:21Can I have a bottle of Pearl out?
17:22Oh, don't you push your luck.
17:24Oh, my gosh.
17:25You, me, your mother, Nurse Lee.
17:32Anybody else coming up those stairs will have me to answer to.
17:36Thanks.
17:37My sister's come over, then me friend Dot, and me auntie Peg.
17:42Come on.
17:43She's bought some cod for me to have afterwards.
17:46I hate cod.
17:48Now, I've prepared the razor.
17:51Nurse Lee will give you a shave.
17:53I did it myself this morning, after I had the show.
17:57You shaved yourself?
17:58I know the drill, sister.
18:00Was this my fault?
18:01I suppose you gave yourself an enema to boot.
18:04I don't want an enema.
18:05It's not dignified.
18:06If you were that keen on your dignity, you wouldn't be here now.
18:11Blasted chimney.
18:16High, hot, and a hell of a lot.
18:20I hope you're ready with that poo.
18:32Excuse me, Nurse.
18:34Is that the afterbirth?
18:35No, baby isn't here yet.
18:38Oh, fair enough.
18:41Only, when you're done and dusted,
18:43I'd like the afterbirth to take down the allotment.
18:45Oh.
18:46Brings my tomorrows on lovely.
18:50I'm too tired of all of this.
18:53Come on, Muriel.
18:54Where's all that fighting talk?
18:56No cod, no enemas, no Eddie.
18:59I'm in it about Eddie.
19:00Don't you go pulling a fast one on me.
19:02Muriel, no father has ever been allowed
19:05in one of my delivery rooms,
19:06and no father ever shall be.
19:20And there go the waters.
19:23Splendid.
19:23Nurse Lee, we will change up the bed.
19:27No, you stay where you are.
19:28Nurse Lee and I will roll you.
19:31That's all right.
19:31Look at that.
19:32I'm fed up with having babies.
19:34I'm only 23.
19:40There's newspaper under here.
19:42Well, we're saved on laundry.
19:43Let's the mattress live another day.
19:46You're not in hospital now
19:48with cupboards full of spotless linen.
19:51Oh, come on.
19:52It's quicker to do it myself.
19:54Look.
19:55Get rid of that.
19:57And sort that fire out.
19:59It's not drawing properly.
20:00Yes, sister.
20:02Nurse Lee.
20:04Yes.
20:05You stick with me, love.
20:06I'm an old hand.
20:08Oh.
20:18Well done, you.
20:20Well done.
20:26I can see the baby's head.
20:30Now, we're going to turn you onto your side
20:33into the correct position for delivery,
20:35and then I want you to listen to Nurse Lee.
20:42That's the way.
20:46Excellent.
20:48Right knee tucked up under the chin.
20:51That's it.
20:52Good girl.
20:53See how it all comes flooding back?
20:56Oh.
20:59Oh.
21:00Oh.
21:00Oh.
21:01Oh.
21:02Oh.
21:02Oh.
21:03Oh.
21:04Oh.
21:04Oh.
21:04Oh.
21:05Oh.
21:05Oh.
21:05Oh.
21:06Little push now, Muriel.
21:08Little push.
21:09Don't push too hard.
21:11Oh.
21:17And that's it.
21:18The head is born.
21:20Is it near here?
21:21Yes, it is.
21:22You're almost done.
21:25Well done.
21:27Well done.
21:29Well done.
21:30Well done.
21:30Well done.
21:34And that's it.
21:38You have a little boy.
21:42I'm that proud of you.
21:44I could burst.
21:44of these.
21:50Oh.
21:56What's happening?
21:58Suing for that fling SWINGS.
22:09Is he all right? Is he all right?
22:18Oh, baby's in fine fettle. He's fast asleep.
22:27I, meanwhile, am lathered in soot right down to my drawers.
22:31Me too.
22:32I haven't got any on.
22:37We need to clamp and cut the cord, Nurse Lee. Why the delay?
22:41I'm sorry.
22:42Come along. Sometimes we need to deal with what the Lord has sent us.
22:52You must be back first thing in the morning to do the routine checks.
22:58Oh, I'll wait for you by the West Ferry Bridge.
23:15Jane, what was that?
23:20Oh, bravo. All pink and white again.
23:24Still, they always say soot is good clean dirt.
23:29The soot was the least of my worries. I've never seen conditions like it.
23:33Quite.
23:34You know, the first time I saw an East End bathroom, I actually shook.
23:38Bathroom? You were lucky.
23:40Little did I know.
23:41I mean, tap on the tenement landing, some of them.
23:44The sister of Angelina never turns her hair.
23:47She grew up very poor.
23:49Somewhere near Reading.
23:53We're all in our unmenstruables.
23:55The sight will make your day.
23:58This is Fred, our handyman.
24:00You won't be able to resist his charm.
24:03Good day off yesterday.
24:04Well, I've had better.
24:06Um, do you like toffee apples?
24:13Not really.
24:14I'm thinking of going into toffee apples.
24:17Fred has a wide range of sidelines, some of which are actually legal.
24:22Well, you can keep your aspersions to yourself, young madam.
24:26I'm not complaining.
24:27We thoroughly enjoyed your alcoholic ginger beer.
24:30It's just a shame you sold some to those children.
24:33There's no point in discussing it, for you cannot understand.
24:37Brewing is a science.
24:39There was error of exactitude.
24:44Cigarette.
24:48You really do have the most lovely hands.
24:51Do you play the piano?
24:52I've played since I was tiny, but nursing doesn't leave much room for practice.
24:56No.
24:58I have this fantasy about painting my nails.
25:01Cherry-red talons gleaming in the light.
25:04Hm.
25:06One day I won't be able to resist it any longer.
25:08I'll chuck out my rubber gloves, the carbolic soap and that infernal nail brush.
25:13Trade it all in for lashings of a Trixo and a proper manicure.
25:17Hm.
25:17But not yet?
25:19Absolutely not yet.
25:21There's work to be done.
25:28When I was just a little girl
25:32I asked my mother, what will I do?
25:37Will I be pretty?
25:40Will I be rich?
25:42Here's what you say to me.
25:45Que sera, sera
25:49Whatever will be, will be
25:53The future's not ours to see
25:56Que sera, sera
26:00What will be, will be
26:05When I grew up
26:06I can still smell cabbage from the pensioners' luncheon club.
26:09One week we were weighing babies and there was still an old man in the corner
26:12for knitting off his mints.
26:14Not to mention Madame Enid's dancing class comes in at half past five.
26:21Excellent.
26:22Aspirin.
26:24Why, have you got a headache?
26:25No, I've lost a button off my suspender belt.
26:31I ought to get garters really.
26:33Like the nuns.
26:34I've seen them in the laundry room
26:36Drying.
26:37Quite vile.
26:42Now I have children of my own
26:46They ask their mother
26:48What will I be?
26:51Will I be handsome?
26:54Will I be rich?
26:56I tell them tenderly
26:58It's twins.
27:00Que sera, sera
27:02Whatever will be, will be
27:06The future's not ours to see
27:10Que sera
27:14What will be, will be
27:18Que sera, sera
27:28You've come to see Mum?
27:29We're about to have our tea.
27:34All right, and kids, what are we going to have tonight then, eh?
27:37How about a lovely boiled pillowcase?
27:39No!
27:41I fancy some fried pyjama bottoms.
27:43Nah, we're pajama bottoms last night.
27:46I might be in his underpants suit.
27:48We have that last night!
27:50Vamos, mamá.
27:51Tenemos hambre.
27:53Magia potagia.
27:55Abracadabra.
27:56¿Estáis listos?
27:58Ole!
27:59Not stewing dumplings again.
28:03No, she's gonna join us, look.
28:05Morín, que coma Lizzie
28:06o se va a quedar como el espíritu de la golosina.
28:08¡No!
28:10Muy bien, muy bien.
28:12A ver, los demás, ni una amiga en el suelo.
28:14¿Me habéis oído?
28:15Venga, a comer.
28:18Muy bien, muy bien.
28:22Coma, coma!
28:24She says, eat up, eat up.
28:26There is your child.
28:28There are no plates.
28:29They never use them.
28:31Tuck in this.
28:32Quiero caras de asco, no quiero caras de asco.
28:39a bit too hot
28:53cool that done half pen and ink nurse
28:55I don't know why you're bothering
28:58Conchita's ankles are swollen
28:59when that happens we have to check for a condition
29:01called preeclampsia by looking for signs
29:03of protein in the urine
29:06preeclampsia is that the same as
29:07toxemia yes it is
29:09well then you ain't got to bother with the test nurse
29:11see sister Bernadette always says
29:13that you can't get toxemia except for your
29:15first and second we're on our 25th
29:18Conchita's ankles are swollen
29:20yeah well sister Bernadette
29:21used to say that
29:23it's because she was on her feet
29:26perhaps you could persuade
29:27Conchita to lie down for an hour or so each day
29:29with her legs slightly elevated
29:31yeah I'll tell Maureen to tell her
29:34they'll take me out off to the kids
29:35I mean even the nippers can do it
29:37I was never much good with the foreign lingo
29:41you don't speak Spanish
29:43no there's never no need no
29:45Conchita and me we understand each other
29:47no school
29:57on the ground
29:59I teach you
30:03a little child
30:05no
30:07Hey, hey, hey!
30:14Hey, hey, hey!
30:16Sit down.
30:18Come on.
30:32Mrs. Merrick!
30:57I like me Oreo.
30:59Hello, pill.
31:01Long time no see.
31:03I've just come in for me check-up.
31:05Here's me fourth.
31:06It's a lovely act.
31:08You can pass it my way once his head gets too big.
31:13Your youngest just weed on the floor.
31:18Yeah, I know.
31:19We're toilet training him, but it's all right.
31:21He ain't got no pants to wear.
31:25Mrs Winston?
31:29Keep an eye on him for me, will you?
31:33Will you have any more?
31:35I don't know.
31:36I don't know.
31:37Actually.
31:47Oh, fast lie down I've had all day.
31:52I see you're 32 weeks pregnant.
31:55I shall need you to do a urine sample for me.
31:58Oh, God.
31:58Just examine me first.
32:00I've only just got comfy.
32:02I keep having twinges.
32:04On and off.
32:09Well, let's take a look at you, shall we?
32:13Got some shocking discharge.
32:23Heels to bottom, knees nice and wide apart.
32:38Are you aware of this?
32:40Oh, a little lump in me down below's?
32:43Yeah, it's been there a while.
32:44I can't really reach it now.
32:48Your face.
32:50You reckon I've got a dose, don't you?
32:52I'll have to check with someone more senior.
33:03I'm afraid the lump in her vulva appears to be a syphilitic chancre.
33:07Other symptoms support the diagnosis.
33:10And of course, the fetus is at risk.
33:13Dr Turner is already on his way.
33:17I imagine he will prescribe a course of penicillin.
33:21Nurse.
33:24You won't catch anything.
33:27How could she not have known?
33:29How could she have felt that thing and never cared?
33:33Pearl Winston isn't accustomed to caring.
33:36Or indeed being cared about.
33:38How can you be so calm?
33:41When I was new to district practice,
33:45I often found it hard to conquer my revulsion.
33:56I'm sorry.
33:58I didn't know people lived like this.
34:01But they do.
34:04And it's why we're here.
34:38She's on its way.
34:40Why don't you look as though you need a cup?
34:44Can I smell smog?
34:46There's a mist closing in.
34:48Coming up off the river.
34:51And that ain't an encouraging sign.
34:52Temperature out there is dropping like a stone.
34:57No good looking in there.
34:59There was a cherry sponge,
35:00but guess who's had it?
35:24There is frost fingering its way beneath the door into the hall.
35:28You must take these into bed with you.
35:30You are young, you see,
35:32and your vibrations will stimulate the calms.
35:36They were mistaken into thinking spring had come.
35:39I'm very much afraid that they will die.
35:43And the demise of something barely born
35:45goes against the sacred nature of our calling.
35:53Sister Monica Joan?
35:58What about the ball?
36:01But it would be missed
36:03by Sister Evangelina.
36:06I'm sure we do not wish to unleash the beast.
36:29It would be missed.
36:57Dr. Turner wanted you to start the injection straight away.
37:00He'll need to see your husband too and arrange the same treatment sphin.
37:04Where are you going to put the needle, leg or arse?
37:07In your bottom, I'm afraid.
37:14Why?
37:21I should have been a stripper.
37:23I mean, at least I'd have met a better class of man.
37:27Ooh.
37:39No!
37:41No!
37:43No!
37:49No!
37:51No!
37:52No!
37:55No!
37:58No!
37:59No!
37:59No!
37:59No!
38:06No!
38:15No!
38:23No!
38:25No!
38:26No!
38:30No!
38:44No!
39:14No!
39:17No!
39:43No!
39:45No!
39:48No!
39:50No!
39:51No!
39:56No!
40:15No!
40:20No!
40:33No!
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42:02No!
42:03No!
42:04No!
42:15No!
42:16No!
42:16No!
42:21God be with you.
42:24Good luck.
42:54You still there, nurse?
42:56Just about.
42:57Not far now.
43:08She never screams like this. She always keeps her head.
43:10Has the doctor not arrived?
43:11No.
43:13We've never lost one before, nurse.
43:18Sometimes we have to deal with what the Lord has sent us.
43:31What?
43:38I think the concussion's preventing her from recognising the pains as labour.
43:42She doesn't know what's happening. She's too scared to cope with it.
43:49I don't think it would be long now.
43:51The urge to push will overtake her body, whether she knows what's happening or not.
43:55You need to be prepared.
43:57How easy will it come away?
44:01I wish the ambulance would come.
44:03If you come with me, we'll be catching a woman's eyes.
44:05No, it doesn't!
44:08No!
44:09No!
44:10No!
44:11No!
44:13No!
44:14No!
44:14No!
44:14No!
44:16No!
44:17No!
44:18No!
44:19No!
44:20No!
44:24No!
44:29No!
44:31No!
44:32I got you, my darling.
44:32I got you.
44:34I got you.
44:35I got you.
44:37I got you.
44:38No!
44:54You can go downstairs for me now, Maureen.
44:55Boil me some water, please.
45:12Don't ask me if she's all right.
45:15Because I don't know.
45:25Don't ask me if she's all right.
45:29Well, she's gone limp.
45:30No!
45:35She's going into shock.
45:44We need to keep her warm.
45:46We don't know when help will arrive.
45:47She's still losing blood.
45:50You are doing perfect, my darling.
45:51You are doing perfect.
45:55It's even weaker.
45:59No, baby.
46:02Not this time, my beautiful.
46:24What's alive, nurse?
46:26I don't want to wrap him up.
46:27I shouldn't.
46:27He'll be so cold.
46:28You'll wrap him now.
46:34It's a little boy.
46:37Come on.
46:38Come on.
46:39Come on.
46:42Come on.
46:43Come on.
46:45Come on.
46:46Come on.
46:46Come on.
46:46Come on.
46:46What's happened?
46:48You've got another brother.
46:49He's smaller than a doll.
46:52Is he still alive?
46:53I don't know.
46:56We need you.
46:58That is terrible.
46:59She's saying my baby.
47:01Where's my baby?
47:03Está aquí.
47:04La matrona lo este secando.
47:07I said he's here.
47:08I said you were destroying him.
47:09You must tell her it's very small and fragile.
47:11Small y pequeño.
47:13Muy frágil.
47:14Todos los niños son frágil.
47:17She says all babies are fragile.
47:26No, no, no, no.
47:28What's that?
47:28Show me what to do.
47:30It's me, vergometrin.
47:31What?
47:34Straight upstairs.
47:36One out of road, kids.
47:37The children have to stay up at the plate.
47:460.5 cc's of vergometrin, second dose.
47:48What happens now, nurse?
47:49We need the rest of the afterbirth to come away,
47:51or the bleeding won't stop,
47:52and she might need surgery.
47:53No, she ain't never been to hospital.
47:54She's had all 25 of them at home.
47:5525?
47:56If you value her life,
47:57you'll let us do what's best.
48:00Her name's Turner, patient's GP.
48:03Sorry I was delayed.
48:04Three bronchitis, patients one after the other.
48:06We, meanwhile, have a hemorrhaging mother
48:08and a viable neonate.
48:10This young midwife's been very capable.
48:12Well done.
48:13Can I help?
48:14Take over on the oxygen.
48:16Call Great Ormond Street,
48:16tell them to prepare for a 30-weeker.
48:18Yes, sir.
48:19And you can bring the ventilator from the ambulance.
48:21Ventilator?
48:21Great Ormond Street.
48:22He needs a lot of help.
48:23He might need to be tube fed.
48:25That's it, salt.
48:26Check it, match it to the rest.
48:28Lips pinking up,
48:29and the baby's still breathing.
48:31Oh, thank God.
48:33I'm all for giving medals to the gentleman upstairs, sir,
48:35but in this case, credit should go to the National Health.
48:38Ten years ago, we would have had none of this.
48:40No obstetric flying squad,
48:42no ambulance,
48:43and no chance.
48:44The centre's complete, sir.
48:46Stabilising.
48:46She'll need a further transfusion,
48:48but we can do that here.
48:49Right.
48:50Let's take this little chap,
48:51get him sorted out.
48:52What?
48:53No.
48:53Maureen, tell her.
48:55She's got to go to the hospital.
48:56Mama,
48:57do you want to go to the hospital?
48:58No.
48:58Do you need him?
49:02He'll die.
49:03He'll die.
49:04He'll die.
49:04He'll die.
49:04He'll die, Mama.
49:05No, stay with me.
49:08She says he stays with me.
49:10Tell her she needs blood and penicillin and rest at home.
49:13The baby will be treated in the finest children's hospital in England.
49:17Mama, do you need blood?
49:18No, stay with me.
49:30She says he stays with me.
49:32I'm his hospital.
49:34He's my blood.
49:38No more era.
49:43No more era.
49:59No more era.
50:00She's a 7-6 year old boy.
50:04No more era.
50:04Only he was in his hospital.
50:06Don't be afraid of him.
50:08No more era.
50:08But I never was in the hospital,
50:08that day I was in his hospital.
50:09No more era.
50:09You went to his hospital,
50:10then he died.
50:11He died.
50:18And a little bit later,
50:19Don't be afraid to do it.
52:42May we come in?
52:43Yeah, you're just in time to see him take his milk.
52:46You wait to see his little tongue come out.
52:49Ain't no bigger than a daisy petal.
52:53What is that?
52:55Oh, that's something Maureen uses in domestic size.
52:57She says it's an icing rod.
53:06How often has he been fed?
53:08Every half hour since 7 o'clock this morning.
53:11Six or eight drops, she has.
53:12Just sort of licks them down and then she tucks them back in her nightie.
53:18We have no experience of caring for such babies.
53:22In the olden days, they did not live.
53:26And now they're nursed in a hospital.
53:29Not this one.
53:46We won't send the baby to hospital, will we, sister?
53:48No.
53:50We'll visit a few times a day for the first six weeks.
53:53And then every day for as long as is required.
53:57Only time will tell whether Conchita will succeed.
54:00We must see what love can do.
54:11We must see what love can do.
54:33I see an incubated baby in a newsreel once.
54:37Looked like a landed fish, it did.
54:40Laying on its back glass all around it.
54:44Looked lonely to its marrow.
55:01Put on two ounces, Mr. and Mrs. Warren.
55:03We're on our way.
55:20Teach yourself to be a gorgeous home laundress.
55:25Washing and ironing most things in the home are covered by this...
55:29Midwife.
55:31Midwife.
55:33Follow her message and you'll find your weekly wash...
55:36Did you hear I lost it?
55:40Yes.
55:42I did. I'm so sorry.
55:46Can't win them all, eh?
55:47It is unwise to be tied to one special day.
55:52No.
55:54I'd like my milk dried up.
55:58I know I brought you some Epsom salts.
56:04I'll make you a cuppa.
56:07Let me do it, Pearl.
56:09No.
56:10You've got to keep going.
56:15My grandma left me this.
56:18Mind you, don't sell that chair.
56:20The little fella weed on it.
56:26I bet you think we're all slattons round here, don't you?
56:31As a matter of fact, I think you're all heroines.
56:34That concludes our household tips for the day.
56:37Now, to our afternoon music programme.
56:56Take my hand, I'm a stranger in paradise.
57:10I had begun to see what love could do.
57:14Love brought life into the world, and women to their knees.
57:20Love had the power to break hearts and to save.
57:24Love was like midwifery, the very stuff of life.
57:29And I was learning how to fly with it,
57:32through all the streets,
57:34like the river to the sea.
57:44Oh.
57:45Camilla Fortescue Chumley Brown?
57:47Yes.
57:48Yes, come here.
57:50I generally answer to Chummy.
57:52My pa used to say, long dogs need short names.
57:55You can ride a bike.
57:57I can ride a horse?
57:59That can't be so very different, surely?
58:01Miss.
58:02Miss.
58:02Could you change a £5 for me?
58:05People like you are supposed to help people like me.
58:08You're very afraid of something, aren't you, Maria?
58:14It would seem, Betty, as though your baby is presenting in the breech position.
58:18It's coming out to ask first.
58:21It's bad.
58:21Well, there's a chance that you can, won't you answer the fervent prayer
58:34Of a stranger in paradise, don't send me in dark despair
58:47From all that I know.
58:49From all that I know.