Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950S
Impressions
- b2060880335shared an impression4 years ago
👍Worth readingGreat meaningful reading.
- Claudia Rondón Bohórquezshared an impression9 years ago
👍Worth reading💡Learnt A Lot🚀UnputdownableI must confess that I got to this book after I watched the BBC's series, so I was already familiar with the stories the narrator told. This left space to appreciate the style of narration. It is a narration that tries to accompany the reader throughout the reading experience; she helps you as much as she helped women give birth. As a woman who shuns from her life the possibility of giving birth, it is sometimes shocking, since some parts of the narration are given in full detail; this I liked. Life and birth are given in detail, without the idea of revulsion, just as a person in medicine would tell it. Also, it places criticism around the ways in which women's problems have been obviated by statesmen and male physician, and in the household chore-division.
It was nice to learn that kangaroo children program originated in Colombia, my home country. It has shown me the resilience of doctors and mothers who refuse to let their premature children die and suffer in their earliest months. My niece is a kangaroo child and she survived mainly because of this. Without this program we would be sorry and in shadows. This book allowed me to make this connection and for it I am truly thankful
Quotes
- M0has quoted5 days ago
Given the human life span - three score years and ten - to be comparable with other animals of similar longevity, human gestation should be about two years. But the human head is so big by the age of two that no woman could deliver it. So our babies are born prematurely, in a state of utter helplessness. - M0has quoted5 days agoMedically speaking, this was not good practice, as it is far better for a woman to get moving as soon as possible, thus reducing the risk of complications such as thrombosis. But this was not known back then, and it had been traditional to keep women in bed after a birth.
- M0has quoted5 days agoThe installation of lavatories in each flat had been a great leap forward in public hygiene, because it improved the conditions in the courtyard. It also avoided the necessity of chamber pots in every flat which had to be emptied daily, the women carrying them downstairs to the emptying troughs. The ordure in the courtyards used to be disgusting, I was told.
