Frightening events upend Miss Higgins' and a patient's life in the latest episode of Call the Midwife:
The maternity clinic is holding regular testing for cervical cancer, and it alerts the nurses to another disease: scabies. While it is easily treatable, it’s highly contagious, so the nurses begin checking schools for an outbreak and set up a treatment clinic.
Vivien Thomson has no problem having children. Her fourth is due soon and she isn’t too interested in Lucille’s help—she’s quite independent. She managed to take time off work and its needed wages to have the baby by “helping along” a hole in the ceiling of her slum apartment; the landlord paused her rent instead of fixing the hole.
Against her better judgment, Lucille does—and immediately loses Vivien’s trust. Angry, Vivien admits that her husband, the father of her coming baby, walked out when he found out she was pregnant. She can’t let the social worker know she is a single mother or she might lose her children. Lucille reassures, encourages, and praises Vivien throughout her labor while Antony sits by in support. A healthy baby girl is born. But when Lucille arrives for a postpartum check-up, the social worker is there, trying to order Vivien to take contraception. Lucille angrily tells her to leave for privacy during the checkup.
When the midwives finally admit to each other that they are fed up but are reluctant to broach the topic of new lodging with Miss Higgins, Nancy advises them all to be blunt: they can’t coddle Miss Higgins and prevent her from returning to her independent life.Barbara and Tom
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