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Call the Midwife: Brief synopsis courtesy of Wikipedia

The show is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth and set in east London in the 1950s
The plot follows newly qualified midwife Jenny Lee and the work of midwives and the nuns of Nonnatus House, a nursing convent, part of an Anglican religious order, coping with the medical problems in the deprived Poplar district of East London in the 1950s. The Sisters and midwives carry out many nursing duties across the community. However, with between 80 and 100 babies being born each month in Poplar alone, the primary work is to help bring safe childbirth to women in the area and to look after their countless newborns.

Nurse Jenny Lee arrives at Nonnatus House in 1957, at the age of 22, completely unaware of the world she is about to enter. Believing she's accepted a job with a small private hospital, she is somewhat surprised to find she's moving into a convent. Furthermore, the deprivation of the East End is a huge culture shock for the young woman who has enjoyed a privileged upbringing in the home counties, and spent time in Paris before training as a nurse. However, although initially shocked by the conditions in which her patients live, Jenny comes to accept the material limitations of the world in which she works, and to love the people who must live there.  She becomes good friends with all of her fellow colleagues and patients and always tries to help those around her.


I LOVE Call the Midwife!  It might seem silly but I love this show so, so much that it warrants it's own blog post. :) It is so beautiful and touching.  Although some of the stories have sadness there is still always a feeling of hope.  At times I feel moved and inspired.  It is such refreshing change from a lot of the junk there is to watch on tv right now.  There are so many examples of people lifting and serving others.  I watch it and I think of sisters in Relief Society and how were are there to help others.  I would highly recommend this show. 

Here are a few quotes from a recent episode that I wrote down because I loved them.

"Birth was and always will be the most common place of miracles.  An event that at once familiar and phenomenal, timeless and immediate, briefly makes angels of us all."

                                                                                          -Nurse Jenny Lee

"Faith like hope is a rope and anchor in a shifting world.  Faith cannot be questioned only lived and if I could not grasp it then I felt it's heartbeat which was love."

                                                                                         -Nurse Jenny Lee