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Season 8: Episode 1
Premiere date: March 31, 2019
Join Nonnatus House in welcoming two new nuns. Valerie deals with an unexpected and shocking case. The other midwives must handle a complicated multiple birth.
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New Nuns Moving to Poplar
Sister Frances and Mother Mildred discuss a new assignment.
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Call the Midwife Season 8, Episode 1 GIF Recap
by Emma Goddard | April 01, 2019
Welcome back, ladies and gents. We made it! New year, new us, but also, new midwives. Season 8 welcomes Sister Frances and Sister Hilda to Nonnatus House and Poplar is abuzz with gossip about Queen...
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Midwife: 'With ALL Womxn'
by Andrea Altomaro | April 01, 2019
Andrea Altomaro says if a nun can put aside all personal beliefs in order to provide empathetic and compassionate care for her patient, all nurses can do the same.
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Making Room for Hope and Compassion
by Deborah McBain | April 01, 2019
Deborah McBain on the secrets and silence communities keep which result in dangerous solutions to problems that then cause more problems.
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When Objects Summon Powerful Memories
by Katie Moriarty | April 01, 2019
Katie Moriarty discusses the difficulty of discarding objects that have a story to tell.
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