When Nancy left at the start of Call the Midwife season 14, we worried that it would be the last time we would see her. Well, she returned in the Call the Midwife season 14 finale, and with some surprising news.
Meanwhile, the nurses and nuns had to deal with displaced women and children, after a house for expectant mothers who are giving their babies up for adoption catches on fire. This brings four women (two of them with babies) to Nonnatus House, and one of them is Paula, the young girl who was sent there earlier this season.
Nancy has some surprising news in the Call the Midwife season 14 finale
As Nancy returns for her wedding, Violet and others realize that she has a surprise to share. She’s pregnant, and Nancy thinks that she’s around seven months along. While Roger knows, she’s wanted to keep it a secret from others, fearing how the Sisters of Nonnatus House would react. However, she and Roger decide that it’s time to tell Collette that she’s going to be a big sister.
It’s the right time, as it turns out that Nancy isn’t seven months pregnant. She’s closer to nine, as she goes into labor and gives birth in the ambulance. The baby is only a couple of weeks early, and now it’s time for everyone to learn the truth. Oops!
Nancy and Roger don’t even end up getting married, so I guess we know what the Call the Midwife 2025 Christmas Special will need to focus on.
Paula returns to Nonnatus House in Call the Midwife
When a home for expectant mothers catches on fire, four women are displaced. Two of them have babies, and it turns out that one of them ends up getting to keep her son after all. Her mom comes to see her and baby and decides that she wants to take them both in.
A couple of others are going to open spaces at other houses that have spaces, but Paula isn’t going to go there. Instead, she needs to move to the Mother House when it turns out that she has a urinary tract infection and anemia. Her strict parents still refuse to take her in despite her being just 14, although her dad has been visiting without the mom’s knowledge.
When Paula goes into labor, it’s the Sisters and nurses who are there with her. Paula is terrified considering how much she’s heard of other women giving birth, but being in the Mother House and having Rosalind there to help her through it all certainly helped to settle some of her worries. Paula ends up crying to her dad after the birth of her son, which her mother hears. I honestly cannot stand the mother, though. Imagine turning your back on your child who needs you all because you refused to allow her the education she needed.
Sister Catherine takes her vows
Sister Catherine takes her first vows to become a Novice, but there are concerns from Sister Julienne. When she sees Sister Catherine dancing on the beach with her sister Helen, who has been allowed to come and support Sister Catherine, she worries if this is the wrong vocation for the woman.
At the same time, there are other concerns for Nonnatus House. The NHS is starting to pull funding from the religious order, and now the religious order is looking at continuing their work abroad. What will this mean for Nonnatus House? Sister Julienne worries that it won’t be here throughout Sister Catherine’s lifetime.
Call the Midwife season 14 started with concerns about Nonatus House and funding, but it seemed like Trixie had saved the day. Unfortunately, she has less sway with the whole NHS, and this could be the beginning of the end of Call the Midwife.
Call the Midwife is available to stream on PBS Masterpiece.
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