Every season, GBH Drama prepares to bring you coverage of the latest and greatest in British dramas. This month, we return to Poplar for the twelfth season of Call The Midwife. With complex medical cases, heartwarming found family, and more births and deaths than we can count, this series is sure to make you laugh and cry (probably more of the latter, if we're being honest). GBH Drama contributor Amanda-Rae Prescott is here to recap the magic as it happens.
This week’s expecting mother is Lorna Price, who has a little girl named Karen, and is close with her mother. Lorna and her mother are almost inseparable, even at the clinic examinations and when it’s time for labor. Lorna names her son Ian after her father, which her mother doesn’t seem entirely pleased about. He appears healthy except for a mark where the forceps were. Later on, Shelagh discovers unusual bruises on his back. Dr. Turner refers Ian to St. Cuthberts for specialist observation. Baby Ian is then diagnosed with hemophilia, a rare but inherited blood disorder. The disease only affects male children and women can pass the gene on.
Lorna finds out from her mother that her father also had hemophilia and this is why she was worried about Lorna having a girl. The disease only affects boys and men, but their mothers can pass on the gene. Lorna grew up thinking her dad died of cancer, not hemophilia. Finding out the truth is so devastating that Lorna stops talking to her mom. Will they ever reconcile?
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