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Call the Midwife - Ruf des Lebens: Eine wahre Geschichte aus dem Londoner East End | Jennifer Worth

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Based on the hit BBC show of the same name, this is the first of several memoirs of midwifery in Poplar, England, in the 1950s. Nonnatus House isn‘t a real place but it is named after a 13th century Saint, Raymond Nonnatus. Here, Jennifer shares the humbling experiences she had while working as a midwife and living with nuns.Life was hard and inequities rampant. During this time, forced sterilization, the lack of contraception, lack of access to⬇️

JenniferEgnor abortion care, lack of housing and clean water, living wages, made pregnancy, birthing and parenting even more dangerous and harder than it already was. Sadly, we still see these inequities occurring today. 2mo

JenniferEgnor At times I felt the author was a little mean. The stories made me more grateful for the rights we have today, though they are being taken away at an alarming pace. I wouldn‘t want to have been a pregnant capable person in the 1950s. Stories like these are important to remember. We cannot forget what it looks like when we don‘t have access to basic things. Medicine has made great progress but there is still a long ways to go. Medical⬇️ 2mo

JenniferEgnor racism, transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny continue to thrive in this space. We can and we must do better. These stories are a reminder that the only way to create real change is through the lens of Reproductive Justice. Link on the real midwives and nurses of Poplar: https://poplarlondon.co.uk/call-the-midwife-real-stories/ (edited) 2mo

lazydaizee I love Call the Midwife , have watched all the episodes so far and read the original book. 2mo

JenniferEgnor @lazydaizee I love it too! I haven‘t finished watching the last season yet though. Sister Monica Joan and Trixie are my favorites! 2mo

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Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End | Jennifer Worth

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Book 3 of Call the Midwife trilogy! Now I am anxious to see the Netflix series…fascinating characters, setting, and tales.

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MicrobeMom I have not read these book, but I love the show. I need to read these. 12mo

Eggs @MicrobeMom Hope you enjoy ☺️ 12mo

Blueberry Is the Netflix series the same as the PBS series? 12mo

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Andrew65 It is an excellently produced series. Enjoy. 12mo

TheSpineView Great books! 💙📖📘 12mo

TravelsWithBooks @Blueberry Yes, it is. 12mo

Eggs @Andrew65 Thank You 😊 12mo

Eggs @TheSpineView ☺️🙌🏻❤️ 12mo

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Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse | Jennifer Worth

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The first half was tough to read-mistreated, brutalized orphans, siblings being separated, and the life of those who stayed at the workhouses😫

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TheSpineView Great job for sticking it out 13mo

Andrew65 Well done. 👏👏👏 Such tough times to read about. We‘re workhouses, or such like, ever a thing in the US? 12mo

Eggs @TheSpineView 🤗🙏🏻 12mo

Eggs @Andrew65 Yes especially during the Depression, 1920s to 1940s. They were called poorhouses 12mo

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Becky.Dare

Farewell to the East End | Jennifer Worth

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I enjoyed this book far far more than Shadows of the Workhouse. Again, I was really surprised to realise that some of the stories, like Megan‘mave, that I know from the tv show are real stories. I feel quite sad to be at the end of this trilogy now which I didn‘t think I would be after struggling through the second book.

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Shadows of the Workhouse | Jennifer Worth

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I found the first part of this book quite hard work to read which coincidentally is the part about the workhouse. I found the second and third parts about sister Monica-Joan and Mr Collett much better and read these parts much quicker. It‘s awful to think that all of it was true and happened in the last 100-120 years. Again it was amazing to see so much of the tv was true!

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Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times | Jennifer Worth

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I love watching Call the Midwife and so I thought I would give this book a go to see how it differed. I was so shocked at how much of the book had been put into the show and I was even more shocked that parts of the show were real. Parts were hard to read, because knowing that it is her account of life as a Midwife in the East End it made the hardship they were going through more awful than it would have been had it been fiction.

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