‘Call the Midwife’ Season 13 Episode 3 recap

The thirteenth season of Call the Midwife continued tonight!

Following last month’s Christmas special, the BBC’s hit period drama about a group of nurse midwives in the East End of London is back with eight new episodes.

“It is now the final months of the Sixties, and more babies are being born in hospital than ever before,” reveals the official synopsis for Season 13.

“Pressure on maternity beds remains extremely high across the country but Poplar is coping better than most due to the work of Nonnatus House and the popularity of home births under the auspices of the Sisters,” we’re told.

Watch a clip from this week’s episode here:

Season 13 is airing in the UK at 8pm on Sunday nights on BBC One and streaming on BBC iPlayer.

Call the Midwife will return on American television this spring on PBS Masterpiece.

Here’s a plot recap for the third episode of Season 13, which premiered on BBC One on Sunday 21 January 2024:

Reggie comes home for a few weeks of holiday and helps Fred to make over the small unkempt green space outside St Oswald’s church. This is paid work for them both, and marks the first time Reggie has earned his own money.

Violet and Fred decide it is time they pay Reggie for his work in Buckle’s paper shop.

Meanwhile, Violet considers running for mayor and is somewhat preoccupied with her application. She fails to notice that Fred isn’t his usual cheery self.

Events take a dramatic turn, and it looks like Violet’s mayoral campaign will have to be abandoned.

Model Gillian Baxter is something of a star in Poplar. Born into an East End family, Gillian was signed up to a baby modelling agency, and her face was seen on the sides of London buses advertising baby soap.

Since becoming pregnant, Gillian has been signed up to model once more, and there are plans already in place for her newborn to follow in her footsteps.

Rosalind and Sister Julienne oversee Gillian’s delivery at the maternity home, but when her newborn baby is diagnosed with a birth defect, Gillian doesn’t take the news well. Nurse Crane helps Gillian and her husband, Liam, through this challenging time.

Meanwhile, Trixie starts making plans for a move into the Barbican flat and tries to enlist Matthew’s help selecting a new sofa.

Last year’s season of Call the Midwife is available on DVD on Amazon.