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Call the Midwife

  • Writer: Michael Connolly
    Michael Connolly
  • Oct 29
  • 1 min read

Call the Midwife: “A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times” by Jennifer Worth, Penguin Books, 2012


Nonnatus House

The author worked in the 1950s in London for a community of Roman Catholic nuns at Nonnatus House. She goes into a fair amount of detail describing childbirth and its problems.


Topics

  • biracial babies

  • breech delivery

  • complications from illegal abortions

  • eclampsia

  • macerated fetus

  • placenta previa

  • ricketts from Vitamin D deficiency

  • stillbirths

  • syphilis

  • Victorian workhouses


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