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Call the Midwife first hit screens back on January 15, 2012. The show quickly hooked global audiences with its honest, sometimes gut-wrenching stories set in London’s East End.
Season 14 aired on PBS in the US on March 30, 2025, and episodes were released every week. The show's second episode aired on April 6, 2025, and went on to show the social and health issues faced in Poplar in the 1970s.
The season began with the pilot episode set in 1970 and a new decade of problems. The Nonnatus House midwives and nurses had to navigate through community activism on the Isle of Dogs, poor housing, poverty, and impacted healthcare.
Call the Midwife Episode 2, titled 'Pocketful of Posies,' follows these narratives while introducing others. It tackled mental illness, epidemics, and personal issues within the community.
Plot summary: Call the Midwife, Season 14, Episode 2
Season 14, Episode 2 of Call the Midwife opens at the Mother and Baby Clinic, where expectant mothers come for care. Arlene Brewer is introduced as a single mother recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital. She shows up, suitcase in hand, ready to start fresh in her new flat. Except the midwives sense right off the bat that something is off.
Turns out, Arlene has been dealing with manic depression and is supposed to be on lithium. But Nurse Trixie discovers that Arlene is off her meds and dealing with hallucinations. Her mental state is hence fragile. It lays bare just how brutal the stigma and cluelessness around mental health were back in the 1970s.
Meanwhile, the clinic is in the midst of a gonorrhea outbreak. Nurse Shelagh and Miss Higgins try to persuade women affiliated with a brothel to be tested. One patient, Zeta Dermere, denies infection and asserts her husband is her sole partner. After digging around a bit, it comes out that Mehmet, her husband, visited a brothel before Zeta arrived in London. That is where he caught the disease. Eventually, he owns up to it, confesses everything to Zeta, and things get tense.
Drama ensues when Zeta goes into labor in an emotionally charged situation, as mistrust between her and her husband adds further pressure. Zeta ends up having a healthy baby boy, but things between her and Mehmet are up in the air. In the end, she just packs up and heads home with her kid, not really sure where she and Mehmet even stand anymore.
At the same time, there is this surprisingly sweet subplot with Rosalind Clifford and Ted. Rosalind helps Ted, who has been through homelessness, to help her throw together flower arrangements for the local festival. This small gesture of just letting someone join in with flower-picking demonstrates the show’s ongoing theme of kindness and community resilience.
Overall, Episode 2 blends clinical challenges with personal narratives in illustrating how the midwives are a focal point of caring, empathy, and social change in 1970s Poplar. Mental illness, sickness, and family problems are highlighted in the episode, as are hope and community support.
More about Call the Midwife
Season 14, Episode 3 of Call the Midwife aired on April 13, 2025. In the episode, the midwives were presented with dramatic and personal challenges in 1970s Poplar. The midwives were stretched to their limits after an old tenement blew up, resulting in a gas leak. Back at the maternity home, they were handling this tough case: a newborn with disabilities.
You could really see how deep their emotions ran, as this wasn't some clock-in and check-the-pulse kind of situation. Additionally, they have the child welfare drama swirling, and also the storyline involving renewing the Nonnatus House contract with the council.
These stories reflected the power, compassion, and devotion of the midwives to address the complexities of their careers and those of their community. Call the Midwife is like a wander through the East End back when it was still rough around the edges. You get the sense you might step into something questionable, but there is a coziness to it all.
Call the Midwife was created by Heidi Thomas based on the true-life stories of Jennifer Worth, and what you end up with is a mix of midwives, nuns, and city disorder.
The key characters of Season 14 are Nurse Trixie Aylward (Helen George), Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter), Nurse Shelagh Turner (Laura Main), and Dr. Patrick Turner (Stephen McGann), among others. Season 14 is produced by Neal Street Productions, executive produced by Pippa Harris and Heidi Thomas, and directed by David Tucker.
As of 2025, Call the Midwife has come up with 14 Seasons and more than 120 episodes since its initial release in 2012. Season 14, which was set in the 1970s, started in early 2025 and concluded in May.
Call the Midwife Season 15 is currently in the pipeline and is expected to air in January 2026.
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