AugustusGloo
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I was thinking about Call the Midwife as my source of knowledge for midwifery too lmao. BUT in call the midwife a few different things in place that means that those 1950s women still had better careThis is not what Call the Midwife told me!
- The midwives were highly trained and seemed pretty successful dealing with mild complications and also as real nurses they could give medications as needed and they did this whole thing where they started carrying laughing gas around (side note why don't women in the US today get the laughing gas option it seems better than an epidural in terms of invasiveness)
- The doctor regularly did house calls in addition to the midwife and would come assist in slightly more complex cases
- In an emergency they did transfer to the hospital OFTEN and had a specialized local ambulance that would come in an emergency specifically for birthing issues (that they called the Flying Squad, cute!!)
- They did still reccomend hospital births in certain situations and esp towards the end of the show they were clearly realizing that a medical setting was better despite that their home births were still pretty successful
Basically they had the infrastructure to do homebirths, but it was still very much a medical care situation and not like a weird spiritual awakening EVEN WITH it being a full out nun delivering the baby half the time. These 1950s women got better care than Robyn did.