Clinical editor, Terri Coates.

Previously published as The Midwife.

Includes bibliographical references, p. 340.

Machine generated contents note: Call the Midwife -- Nonnatus House -- Morning Visits -- Chummy -- Molly -- The Bicycle -- Antenatal Clinic -- Rickets -- Eclampsia -- Fred -- A Christmas Baby -- A Breech Delivery -- Jimmy -- Len & Concita Warren -- Sister Monica Joan -- Mary -- Zakir -- Cable Street -- Cafe Life -- Flight -- Sister Evangelina -- Mrs Jenkins -- Rosie -- The Workhouse -- The Bottom Dropped Out of Pigs -- Of Mixed Descent I -- Of Mixed Descent II -- Of Mixed Descent III -- The Luncheon Party -- Smog -- The Flying Squad -- A Premature Baby -- Old, Old Age -- In the Beginning.

Jennifer Worth was just twenty-two when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. Coming from a sheltered background there were tough lessons to be learned. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying.