Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950S

Great meaningful reading.

I 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