Sister Hilda tries to help a man haunted by his past while Sister Julienne intervenes in the difficulties of a new mother, in the latest Call the Midwife:
When Sister Hilda became a nun, she had to give up worldly possessions, including a cherished fox fur coat from her mother. So when she spots a lustrous fox fur coat made by Samuel Rosen she is struck with admiration. Rosen’s wife Orli is pregnant; he and she live above the furrier owned by her grandfather, who lives with them and taught Sammy the trade.
He’s afraid he’ll have to leave in a hurry; his family was too slow to escape the concentration camps. His mother and brother were gassed upon arrival at the camp. He is so fearful that he objects to Orli’s suggestion that they give their son a Hebrew name, and doesn’t want people to know about the bris, or circumcision ceremony, for his son. He does ask Orli’s grandfather to hold his son during the ceremony, an honor to him.
Yvonne Cawder feels she must go it alone in her motherhood. Her twin sister Ivy has just had twins who are healthy and feed easily, while the fretful Yvonne is struggling with breastfeeding her own daughter. The girl cries through Trixie’s new mother class, and Yvonne admits afterward that getting the infant into a routine is proving difficult—but she rejects an offer of help.
Fred has a steak dinner on the line. He has purchased extra popsicles in anticipation of a heat wave that is not here, and he and Violet make a bet on whether he can sell all of them. Unfortunately, the store’s freezer is broken, so he and Reggie set out to give the popsicles away for free before they melt, including to Sister Monica Joan, who is wilting in the heat.