
An Armful of Babies and a Cup of Tea
Memoirs of a 1950s NHS Health Visitor
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Narrated by:
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Karina Fernandez
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By:
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Molly Corbally
About this listen
For all fans of Call the Midwife - a touching memoir of a young health visitor in postwar England (from the 1940s to the 1970s). After serving as a nurse in WW2, Molly Corbally joined the brand new NHS and became one of the first official District Health Visitors, attending to mothers and babies from all walks of life in the picturesque village near Coventry she came to call home. Social work was uncharted territory at the time, and Britain was very much worse for wear - TB, polio, measles and whooping cough were just some of the hazards new babies faced. Social conditions could also add to the problems, when poverty and alcoholism were rife.
Armed with only her nursing training, her common sense and a desire to serve, Molly set out to win over a community and provide a new and valuable service in times of great change. As well as the challenges there was also joy and laughter, from the woman who finally had a baby after fifteen years of trying, to the woman who thought she should use marmalade as nappy cream, because the hospital had never taken the label off the jar they were using to store it.
Warm, witty and moving, An Armful of Babies is a vivid portrait of rural England in the post-war years, and a testament to an NHS in its own infancy and to what hasn't changed: the bond between parents and their children, and the importance of protecting that.
SIMPLY WONDERFUL!
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A lovely look back to school nurses and midwifery.
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absolutely brilliant
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The author gives you the opportunity to understand how the birth of the health worker came to be. The many stories of different patients made great listening. How different life was in the 1950s
Thoroughly enjoyed it!
Very informative listening
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I really loved this book
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Fantastic read
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