just started watching this on Netflix today. Has anyone seen this series. It's not new. Adapted by Heidi Thomas from the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth, this drama series is a moving, funny, colorful look at midwifery and family in 1950s East End London. It follows newly qualified midwife Jenny, who joins an eccentric, lovable community of nuns who are nurses at Nonnatus House. Jenny is surprised to find herself at a convent -- she thought she was being sent to a small private hospital -- and is initially daunted by her surroundings, most notably the formidable Sister Evangelina and the unconventional Sister Monica Joan. But Jenny gradually begins to find her way and develops incredible friendships among the nurses, as they are drawn into the lives and homes of the women and families they treat.
Hope I like it...51 episodes! Good binge watching potential. I don't think men will like this too much, lol.
I don't think I'll watch this particular series but I have delivered at least twenty babies. Working as a paramedic in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, we had a couple of colonias (illegal housing developments populated largely by illegal immigrants) in our area. Women who were pregnant would be turned away at the hospital if they arrived too early for a childbirth since the hospital staff would determine that it wasn't an emergent condition, so they would often wait until the last minute and call an ambulance. We were more than a half hour away from the nearest hospital, and about forty minutes from the nearest hospital that had a specialized childbirth section, so we would (more often than I liked) deliver the baby at the house or en route to the hospital. We delivered one outside the elevator waiting to take her up to the OBGYN floor, just as the OBGYN staff were doing a shift change, so they all made wisecracks as they went in or out of the elevator, going to or from their shift. I only had one that even threatened to be a problem, when a mother was bleeding and the baby wasn't breathing as willingly as he should have. Both of them came through okay, though. Delivering a baby usually wasn't a difficult thing to do, for me, since the mother did all the work. But when things went wrong, they could go very wrong, and that was a constant fear.
I think you'll like it Chrissy - I gave it a miss as childbirth is not for me and I presumed there would be plenty of them The show is so popular over here, so I was tempted but not enough - would have liked the drama of it though and the fact it's close to 'home'
Yes...lots of childbirth and it's all so painful to watch even knowing I won't be going through ever again. Episode 2 had a breech birth but the new midwife did a great job. I also like the other story lines and the different characters...so I'm happy that I have a series I like and it's hour long episodes and 6 seasons I think.
I already get a kick out of the newest midwife "Chummy". She's huge and clumsy but very good with patients.
Oh oh...Mrs Lawson just had a black baby and her husband is an old white man. Mr. Lawson's handling of seeing the baby bought a tear to my eye...touching. So far I'm loving this show...only negative is maybe too many births shown but that doesn't bother me but I think it might have more people watching it especially men if there was less but I'm only on my 3rd episode out of 56 so don't know how it continues. That's a long sentence, lol.
Yea - I'd love to see it, but couldn't handle it (lol) I thought of running on those bits but me finger would be forever on the button
Well I finished episode 3...sad at the end. I won't post anymore spoilers just in case someone hasn't seen it and wants to. I'm always happy when I find something good to watch.
You understand the lingo then Chrissy Would you let me know by pm each day - just a snippet of what's happening .............?
Yes, I get it for the most part. Also have closed captioned so I don't have to worry about missing something because of the accent. Of course I'll let you know what's happening!