Tonight PBS premiers Call the Midwife, a British drama about midwives in a poor part of East London in the 1950's. It looks very interesting and I've been looking forward to seeing it. If you don't get PBS, you can watch it on line on PBS's website.
I know it will air again, though it will probably be at like 1 am. I will check the schedule online. And I hope I can watch the next one at its regularly scheduled time.
I watched it and enjoyed the show. There were some pretty graphic childbirth scenes with a lot of screaming. One of the charecters is a 25year old woman who gives birth to her 23rd child. According to her busband she never has periods just gets pregnant again. If the show is at all accurate the lives of poor uneducated women in post war London wss very harsh..
I will have to record this show, it sounds intriguing
If she had her first at 15 and had twins for four pregnancies, it looks like it could be possible if my math is correct. She would have to have them 10 months apart though.
She had been a war bride - a "souvenir" her husband brought back from the Spanish Civil War when she was 13 and had her first child at 14. In the show he speaks no Spanish and she no English. Evidently they just communicate by having a boatload of sex.
Even so, that does seem like a lot of children to have in a relatively short period of time. It can't be good for a woman's body. Perhaps its exaggerated for effect, but the show is based on the memoirs of a woman who was a nurse at that time.
-- Edited by Evil Stepmother on Wednesday 3rd of October 2012 06:48:15 AM
I watched the first episode online, then the second when it aired. I enjoyed them and will try to follow the show for now. I become uncomfortable with the topic of reproduction and childbirth pretty quickly and easily, so there were a few times when I wondered why I was watching. I was also thinking, Hallelujah for birth control!
On Sunday after Call the Midwife, I continued watching PBS to see the first episode of the second series of the new version of Upstairs, Downstairs and then the first episode of Broadway: The American Musical in case anyone is watching those. (I realize the programming might be different in other PBS markets)
-- Edited by Cactus on Tuesday 9th of October 2012 09:43:33 AM
