{"id":6713,"date":"2013-04-15T08:45:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/?p=6713"},"modified":"2013-04-12T15:16:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T20:16:26","slug":"call-the-midwife-the-morning-after-analysis-season-2-episode-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2013\/04\/15\/call-the-midwife-the-morning-after-analysis-season-2-episode-3\/","title":{"rendered":"`Call The Midwife` The Morning-After Analysis: Season 2: Episode 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Call<\/p>\n

Like they did last season<\/a>, we are happy to have the faculty of the\u00a0Vanderbilt School of Nursing\u00a0<\/a>back to\u00a0guest blog for us each Monday morning\u00a0about the previous night’s episode of Season 2 of\u00a0Call the Midwife<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0airing on Sundays on NPT and PBS Stations nationwide at 7:00 p.m. Central, March 31-May 19. Check in here every Monday morning for the next six weeks for historical and contemporary context on the show, and some fun discussion.\u00a0 SPOILER ALERT: Some may contain spoilers, so please be aware of that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Michelle Collins PhD, CNM<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Michelle<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I do really enjoy the screenwriting of this series, in large part because of the masterful way stories are woven together to illustrate a particular theme. Sometimes the themes are subtle, and sometimes more overt, as in this week’s episode. The episode centered on the human bond – between the twin sisters, between the nun and her God, and between star-crossed lovers. As the narrator profoundly stated in the final minutes, “sometimes only when bonds are tested do we understand their strength. There are ties that endure for a lifetime no matter how frayed by fate. We can walk away and pretend to forget them; pain passes in the end. Or we can step into the future, blessed and stronger than before because when faced with change our love held fast and did not break. Our lives were not severed but woven anew, and our joy not halved, but doubled.”<\/p>\n

There is inherent risk when human bonds are tested; risks that relationships will not survive, or that they will survive, but be forever altered. As we know, life and love is not without risk. Yet it is the often the fruit of the greatest risks we take in life and love that yield the greatest rewards in our lives. Not taking risks in love is always an option, of course, but one risks missing out on those experiences which enrich our lives and help us grow to our full potential as human beings. Noted author Leo Buscaglia said of this:<\/p>\n

To love is to risk not being loved in return.
\nTo hope is to risk pain.
\nTo try is to risk failure, But risk must be taken,
\nBecause the greatest hazard in life Is to risk nothing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another interesting sidebar you may have picked up on in this episode was the treatment, \u00a0or rather mistreatment, of nurses, as displayed by the surgeon, Mr. Tracy (Anthony Calf). Thank goodness nursing has come a long way since the 1950’s! Indulge me to share a few facts about nursing in the 1950’s:<\/p>\n