redbear
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so to say I want to be a midwife one day I didn't watch this until last week and watched all up to date in a few days, I love it.
I love to see how they lived not too long ago and how things have changed so much, the fact that the midwifes and mums where sat smoking in the anti natal class
They gave birth at home normally, with no pain relief (a few had gas and air but that was rare) I also like how it covers other subjects like disabled children that where put in a home, one got pregnant with DS. it shows how people where effected by the work houses (very sad) etc, I know its not a 'real account' but it is true to life as it was and I think its fascinating.
And it was only in the fifties, so what my grandparents/ great grandparents, not too long ago!
I know my granddads fought in the 2nd world war, and one stayed on with the army afterwards to go out to Auschwitz and helped 'clear up' what the German soldiers had left behind. (I wont go into detail as its horrible what he had to do) they both died one when I was three and the other when he was 33 and my dad was little so its nice to feel a connection to how they lived.
I love to see how they lived not too long ago and how things have changed so much, the fact that the midwifes and mums where sat smoking in the anti natal class
They gave birth at home normally, with no pain relief (a few had gas and air but that was rare) I also like how it covers other subjects like disabled children that where put in a home, one got pregnant with DS. it shows how people where effected by the work houses (very sad) etc, I know its not a 'real account' but it is true to life as it was and I think its fascinating. And it was only in the fifties, so what my grandparents/ great grandparents, not too long ago!
I know my granddads fought in the 2nd world war, and one stayed on with the army afterwards to go out to Auschwitz and helped 'clear up' what the German soldiers had left behind. (I wont go into detail as its horrible what he had to do) they both died one when I was three and the other when he was 33 and my dad was little so its nice to feel a connection to how they lived.
It does make you grateful we have better medical advances now, things like Polio are pretty much gone now and has been for 10 years x
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