Call the Midwife is about poverty and the NHS much more than it is about childbirth. They get the medicine right but also the social history. It's very much a love letter to the NHS.

My late MIL was a midwife in post-WWII London. She delivered over 600 babies both in England and after she emigrated to the US in the 50s, including her own grandson! She was a wonderful, caring person. Her grandson was the last baby of her career, and she took such good care of us!

Midwife: I just need you to take a quick tinkle in this. Mother to be: But that's a good tea cup.

“Call the midwife,” is the most accurate depiction of midwifery care I have ever seen. Yes, we have made amazing strides in Obstetric care since then, but we unfortunately do not all practice in environments where we, or our clients, have access to Clinics, Hospitals, equipment, or even pretty basic tests. Very proud to practice as an Avanced Midwife Practicioner in rural South Africa. I know that I, and all of my fellow midwives, would have loved to have all thiese resources available for our clients, in case they should need it, but we do not, and have to make do with what we have. We strive to empower our clients as best we can, regardless of where we are. We are happy to have our OB/Gyn colleagues care for the high risk moms, we will gladly take care of rest of the 95% of those moms who do not need this high tech care. It is wonderful to have a symbiotic working relationship with other medical professionals. Happy International Midwives Day yesterday 5 May.

Don't worry we've all cried while watching call the midwife

EVERY episode of "Call the Midwife" is a tear-jerker. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. But I still come back because it's so good!

This bleeding happend to my mom I was born premature at 30 weeks. Now I have cerebral palsey. But I'm 27 years old now and I have two beautyful babyboys of my own now!

It is worth noting that Call the Midwife is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, who was in fact a midwife - although the specific stories are fictional, they are all based on things which really happened. [the character Jenny Lee is based on the author] and I believe Jennifer Worth was involved in creating the show, but sadly she passed away in 2011 just before the show began to air.

The babies they use are actually super young! Moms sign up while they're still pregnant and whatever baby is born closest to their filming day they use. I think they said they don't use babies older than 8 days. One of the things I love about this show is how faithful they try to be to reality!

You should watch Season 1 Episode 2, where Chummy has to deliver a baby that is breech. She walks through the steps of delivery and I heard that there are obstetrics classes that use that scene to demonstrate a breech birth. I would love to see what you think of it and how accurate it is!

As a doula who typically provides care from 32 weeks forward, I’ve gotten asked about castor oil many times. I always, ALWAYS, tell them not to use it because it will not start labor. If you do go into labor, it’s pure coincidence and not the castor oil. However I had one mom ignore me and drink an entire bottle of it. She went into labor and had explosive diarrhea with every single contraction. When it was time to push, it was a disaster.

I’m a high school student and until recently I had no clue what career I wanted to pursue. As a result my grades began to slip because I had no real motivation to keep them up. A while ago I discovered call the midwife and suddenly I realized that I want to be an ob/gyn. I have no clue if it’ll become a reality but I’m so grateful to have a dream for the future

If I don’t cry in an episode of Call the Midwife, I consider it a failure! LOVE this show! Really glad Americans appreciate it too! 💖

A bit of background on the show for those who don't know. Call the midwife is set in 1950s post war london in one of the poorest areas. The midwives are 'district nurses' and look after the local community. They got around on push bikes (which is why chummy was trying the scooter)They are attached to an anglican convent. The nuns are also midwives. It would have been nice to hear more comparisons like then they ony had thiss but now we have this or c section were high risk in this time, that kind of thing

I had a placental abruption with no external bleeding 9 months ago and my baby boy died. Storys like yours, Mama Doctor Jones, make me very happy. Because not every mom with placental abruption has to suffer this loss and this makes me grateful. All these healthy moms and babys make me so unbelievably grateful.

That was a terrific show and I would have been happy to have you as my doctor. Call the Midwife, for the most part was one of the best, realistic medical shows I have seen over the years. I believe I read somewhere that they hired newborns for the minute or two of filming that was needed and they had a midwife on staff to keep things real. A newborn looks so different a week later and I hate shows where the 'newborn' is a lovely 1-3 month old! I have seen some 'medical' shows where they credit a doctor who apparently had nothing else to do as he wouldn't have had any patients as the medical stuff on the show was such a bunch of hooey!

I can attest to the "Don't do the castor oil thing." With my third, I was so miserable and just ready to deliver that my grandmother advised me to do it. I was SO sick! Not only did I have terrible diarrhea, but I was also vomiting and cramping like crazy. I did NOT go into labor. I wouldn't wish that for anyone.

I suffered a placental abruption at home last November. I stood up after a nap and there was a huge gush of fluid, and then lost a lot of blood. I was aware enough to yell for, my husband, to call for an ambulance but flushed and didn't think the firefighters would need to see the blood. I have first responder training, but I was terrified. I knew the risks. I knew what was happening and what it meant. Thankfully, I was rushed downtown in record speed for a crash c-section and at 32.2 weeks, my little guy was born. I had "a very large number of very large clots" behind the placenta. I needed a transfusion and healing was rough, but I cannot complain. Bubs spent just under a month in the NICU and is doing well at six months.

This is actually the show that motivated me to look into becoming a nurse (specializing in labor and delivery). Obviously times have changed, and real life isn't so dramatized, but I know I made the right choice. I'm still in high school, but I'm duo-enrolled in college classes and taking prerequisites for my degree :)

Jennifer Worth's books (which the series is based on) are a great read. This skill of these midwives was amazing.

I would actually really like it if you reacted to some "I didn't know I was pregnant" episodes 🤔

Keep in mind it is what they did in that area of London in the 60s. it was a smaller area that didn’t evolve as fast as the rest of England. And I believe that this stuff was taken directly from Jennifer’s journal.

I loved this series! It was so fun seeing Miranda, who is a comedian, do such a great serious role. Plus she got a sweet romance storyline in this as well. I'm all sniffly too.

I love this program. They get the history and the medicine right. It emphasizes the importance of district midwives and nurses at the time and indeed today. I still remember our district nurse, Nurse Ramsay and going to the clinic to have check ups as a child.

Was an RN for an OBGYN for almost 10 years. Abruption is scary. I’ve seen it twice, out of the two, we lost one. A patient came in for bleeding and pain. She was laying at the door before the office opened. We carried her in and did a sono and Doppler...No heart beat. Rushed her to the OR, but it was too late. She did end up having a healthy baby a few years later. OB is a rewarding, but taxing profession.

My husband was ready to stop watching the show if Chummy had died. Seriously though, such a good show, and I so appreciate their accuracy.

15 years ago a friend of mine went into labor with her 2nd child. Unfortunately this happened, & she went into a coma. She woke up when her 2nd daughter was over a year old! 14 & a half months. I can't imagine going through that! I'm greatful her family didn't give up on her waking up.

I arrived in the ER just after Christmas with horrible back. I could sit,stand & lay down. There was no comfortable position that didn't bring tears to my eyes The triage nurse took my blood pressure & looked confused. Told me the machine is acting up. Took my blood pressure again. It was the same 203/110. I told her that my doctor had been watching for pre-eclampsia. That poor nurse turned white & was in shock. I was sent straight up to L&D. Doc told me that me that I was in danger of shock. The treatment was delivering the baby. I was only 30 weeks. She was born 1lb 11oz. Today she is 26 & and is perfectly healthy.

I was born after a placental abruption. Pulled me out with forceps covered in blood. My parents had already planned on calling me Mary, but it was fitting.

The first time I saw this episode I was freaking out and crying lol chummy is everyone's favorite

Okay, you need to do the entire series as your Reacts magnum opus. I'd love to get a modern perspective on almost everything I ever saw on that show. I adore the show and it's fascinating to see oldschool medical practices, and then see them through a modern lens.

Call The Midwife is one of the most heartwarming programmes ever made. It's just lovely.

Mama to a 24 week miracle here due to an 80% abruption and I can say I was not ready for this!! 😭😭

I am a crochet artist. One of my most asked for blankets is the "call the midwife" blanket

One of my favorite episodes is when Reggie lost his mom which broke my heart but to see how everyone was comforting him made my day ♥️♥️

I was a medical transcriptionist for years, so I learned how to spell and occasionally decode medical terms but not any real understanding of them. Thank you for explaining the terms "fundus" and "extravasation." I never knew what they actually meant.

You should definitely do more Call The Midwife ones. Really interesting with it being another time period! Thanks! Learned a lot!

The babies they use for the newborns are less than 10 days old. I was so impressed with this show for its realism. Watch the episodes about the Thalidium babies, they're excellent. This is my favorite show.

My twin and I caused our mom such bad preeclampsia that the doctor literally told my dad that had we been born a decade earlier he would have had to choose to save either us or our mom

I “died” on the table with my first baby back in 1991 d/t hemorrhage. This was hard to watch even 30 years later, I remember it all. My girl was huge and perfect, btw. 🥰 And I’m obvi still here. 😁

Ok pregnancy scares the bejesus out of me but I cannot stop watching your channel. It's so interesting although I still dnt want a baby haha

It’s one of my favourite things about call the midwife- disproportionately good outcomes

I’m a nurse and when I was pregnant with my son, I worked second shift on my due date, got home and went into labor two hours later!

Love the proper English....”need you to take a quick tinkle” 😆

I really liked how you took into concidereation what was common practice back then and told us what is done now, really interesting and professional video!

“Pregnant women should bicycle or ride scooters” Hah! You should come to the Netherlands and see all the pregnant ladies on bikes here. With toddlers. 😂

I love the show. All in all, I think they have done a top notch job of showing what NHS health care was like when they got it implemented, but there is just so much to this show. Social issues, historical moments, outbreaks of diseases like polio and measles, birth and even death.

My grandmother lived in UK during the timeframe this show is set. She said the only requirement back then to have home birth was to have a sink in your bedroom 😆 She had my mother during this time. Certainly gave me perspective on how things were for grandma compared to me now with my boys in AU. (My family is American, we just both ended up marrying abroad).

My friends baby boy just turned a year old. He was delivered at 29 weeks due to severe preeclampsia. He was in the NICU for almost 3 months but he's absolutely gorgeous and doing great

I was born bum first. Mom was kind of annoyed by it because every doc and nurse who had time to spare would come observe because they hadn't seen it before.

There’s not a single episode of Call the Midwife that doesn’t make me cry. 13/10 show. And a few months ago never even thought of Midwives the way I do now! Absolute angels! 💕

During the filming they used real midwifes from the 50’s to instruct the actors how they should be performing the births and they brought in their own equipment for the tv show to use to make it as realistic as possible 🙂

They made me do an enema in South Korea when I had my first son. And during my second pregnancy a crazy doula that I was about to contract told me that I should have 2 enemas every day for 2 weeks before my baby was born. Of course that after that I didn't get her services. My mom is a midwife in Brazil and she was very scared when I told her how the Korean do their job. They have all the best technology in world but they don't touch you during the entire prenatal. Everything is checked through ultrasound. I had 10 or 12 ultrasounds during my first pregnancy and 7 during my second because I refused to do one ultrasound every single appointment.

You should watch the Downton Abbey episode where Lady Sybil gives birth (S3E05 I believe). I found it pretty interesting given opposing medical opinions shown and the result. It's a pretty intense episode but I think it'd be a good one for you to shed some light on :)

As someone who is a huge fan of call the midwife, I love this video!! Partly because it shows that the show is actually trying to be accurate, even if they dont get it right 100% of the time. It just shows how good the show really is! I also learned a lot. Thank you Mama Doctor Jones!!

Gotta love Chummy!! She was such a trooper and a truly caring, encouraging person.

I love call the midwife!! Really enjoyed your review of the show. I’ve also cried through a lot of call the midwife episodes, this show really pulls on the heart strings. Please review another episode of this show, obstetrics is pretty fascinating.

Call the Midwife genuinely makes me cry on a regular basis and the finale of last season had me sobbing

I love “Call the midwife”. This tv series is actually very educational, where most American medical tv shows ( Grey’s Anatomy, and the many others) are all about drama. I grew up in Belgium, I was born in 1963, and the scenery reminds me so much of growing up in Belgium, in the 60’s. I remember going to baby health checkups in a place very similar to where those happen in this tv show. My mom had three kids in three years, starting with her first one when she was 40 years old ( not very common back then), and she would take us to weekly checkups in the very large pram. The youngest, my brother, was laying down inside the pram, I ( the middle child) sat in a little seat clamped over the bassinet part of the pram, and my sister, the older child, tagging along, walking a few kilometers. I’m always amazed how their newborns actually are newborns, or very close to that, and the actors do an amazing job at making this look so realistic. In American tv shows or movies, the newborns are always 2 month old babies, smiling and everything, and often you see the mother delivering, sitting straight up in bed. How can anyone deliver a baby while sitting down on your bed or a chair? My daughter delivered her second baby 3 weeks ago, at 37 weeks, because she was diagnosed with preeclampsia( she had a few high blood pressure readings, although she also had normal readings in between, but they did find protein in her urine. She had no swelling or other symptoms). Her first pregnancy was a normal full term delivery.

Wow. As soon as they lifted the blanket and looked horrified, I knew the placenta had broken. I was born as a result of a placental abruption, so it was really interesting to see the process in the show, and to hear you explain it and Milo's birth story. I'm glad you and Milo are healthy. My mom and I are healthy a well, so I'm grateful that we live in a time that can treat this quickly.

This doctor is so sweet! Don't worry about crying in your react videos; it just makes you look human with a caring heart!!!!!!

I’m a student midwife from the UK, I find it interesting to hear about how maternity care differs in different countries so massively! Like in the US, it’s obstetric led, yet in the UK its midwife led! It would be interesting if you were to watch an episode of one born every minute to perhaps see how UK care differs! (Personally one born every minute doesn’t perceive what maternity care is really like, but it’s still got the foundations there!) :)

My first pregnancy was a complete placental abruption at 34 weeks. My daughter pulled out pure white and floppy, but she was thankfully brought back. It was a very severe and truamatic experience. It was 15 years ago and I'm still bawling like a baby during this episode 😭

I LOVE "Call the Midwife" and this idea of Doctor Reacts is excellent. I love your humor, honesty, and explanations to what is happening. I was born in the early 1950s by emergency C-section after my mom suffered a placental abruption. They tried to induce labor (what??), but were unsuccessful. I was born at 38 weeks with no complications. The doctor who delivered me was the son of the doc who delivered my dad. The senior doc told my dad, "Congratulations, you have a daughter. Both she and your wife are alive." My mom had 3 other children.

If you ever get the chance, it would be great to see you react to the iconic ER episode 'Love's Labor Lost'. It's from the 90s but ER's still one of the best medical dramas IMO.

My OB actually gave birth a month early- I was her last delivery that morning and her water broke later that day. She actually called me the next morning to let me know she wouldn't be able to see me for mt postpartum visit 😂

I love this show, I've watched all seasons at least 4 times. I'm still utterly amazed at how the nurses and midwives of the time managed in such appalling conditions and brought so many babies safely into the world. Along with how well the deal with subjects like underage mothers, domestic violence, etc.

We need more Call the Midwife reaction videos 🙌 You have thought me so much about my body, I pass on the baton everyday (making people subscribe!) ❤❤❤

I hope you read the books. They are a fascinating look at London in the 1950s. Jennifer Worth's memoirs are also a good look at how systematic poverty can destroy the health of a commumity

Can we just appreciate for a moment how beautiful your hair is?!

Call the Midwife is my favorite medical show. I have always wanted to be a midwife or delivery nurse but couldn’t fulfill that dream. This show helps me thru that missed calling.

I love how Lucille calls everyone precious ❤

Every time I watch this goddam show I dehydrate from crying. Simply love it

My sister had an abruption with my nephew at 30 weeks and I was the only one there at the time for her emergency c section (so I actually got to watch them pull him out and put him on the ventilator), it was a mix of the scariest and coolest emotions all at once!! I am in pre nursing school and this experience showed me that I’m going into the right career field for me, and has definitely strengthened my bond with my sister and nephew!

I got halfway through the video before I realized that “Chummy” is this character’s name and not a nickname like “pal.”

Every episode of Call the Midwife has made me cry. My nurse sister got me into the show, and I binge watched season 1 to season 3 lol. Hubby walks in during the middle of the binge session and is worried why I'm crying hysterically and I'm like "it's this...*sniffles then deep inhale* Showww 😭"

Ok I seriously don't know how I got onto your channel but it's very interesting and informative so I've watch multiple videos. Informed man=real man.

I do think it is impossible to compare with today's US OBGYN to post WW2 in a low-income area of bomb-torn London. Midwives and District nurses served their communities travelling in all weathers and at all times of the night and day by bicycle all over The UK. British TV is far more realistic and far less glamorous than in The USA.

The castor oil warnings and outcome results made me bust out laughing. DON'T DO IT. lol

You can truly tell how much you love what you do. In the way you explain everything so beautifully and even how you smiled when the baby was delivered in the show. Love this!

i love call the midwife! i actually feel like i learned a lot about baby things from this show! i'd love to see you react to the episode of it's always sunny in philadelphia called "dee gives birth"! it's hilarious and the whole thing is set during the birth of dee's baby.

Thank you KZfaq for suggesting this channel!!! Between Mama Doctor Jones and Dr. Mike, I've made 2 awesome youtube discoveries!!!!

I love Call The Midwife.It’s very well done. I love your commentaries.Keep up the good work and I’d love to see more of these episodes.Thanks Mama Doctor!!

Watching this inspired me to read the books and watch the show. So glad! Thank you! I enjoyed them and learned so much

"Call the Midwife" was one of my favorite shows. I was always impressed by how accurate they tried to make it. Don't apologize; I was in tears, too.

Can you do one of the delivery episodes of the Handmaids Tale??

I love Call the Midwife! So glad you reacted to this! And, I think we have all cried watching this show. Usually more than once.

It does not matter how many times I watch this episode, I cry every time! So emotional and such great, touching acting

Call the midwife is one of my favorites! I've shed more than my share of tears on that series! Another show, from Australia, is a tad spoofy, about an OB hospital, called Offspring.

My first pregnancy was perfect. My second one is when I had preeclampsia and had to have him about 36 weeks or 37 weeks. He was 5lbs 9 oz. I was terrified but now he's gonna be 5 and super happy.

I had a placental abruption with my son, 36w5d I was at work and I couldn't feel him moving, I walked down to the hospital and they were quite jolly, said there's not much room in there at this stage but I knew something was wrong. They strapped the monitor around me to get his heart trace and left me, for three hours. The nurses face when she looked at the trace, we knew we were right to have come in. When I got to theater the surgeon was furious, shouting at everyone to get a move on and if they didn't have an epidural in in 30 seconds he was going to put me under. Apgars were 1 then 0, a month in NICU but he's 17 now, studying English, psychology and law, a very mild case of dyspraxia (we did physio) and hearing loss on one side, but otherwise perfect and amazing. Mr Bebe you are an amazing surgeon.

I had a partial abruption at 32 weeks with my third child. I was rushed to the hospital where I stayed on bed rest till 36 weeks. They induced labor after amnio to determine that the lungs were mature. I delivered vaginally with no issues but bled a lot after. My baby just turned 22. Thankful that it all turned out ok. 🙏🏻

I'm sure you've seen "ER", the tv series. I'd love to see your reaction to one of it's strongest episodes, "Love's Labor Lost"

I loved this! I wondered how realistic call the midwife is... glad to see they put an effort into authenticity. You should do an Ob/Gyn reactes to Downton Abby season 3 episode 5. The episode deals with eclampsia in pregnancy, but in the 1920s 😱

I had preeclampsia with my only child. Watching an earlier episode of Call the Midwife (the pre-eclampsia killed the mum) made me curious about the condition and treatment. I was very shocked to find out that successful "treatment" (most women with prenatal care didn't die) happened in the late 70s! I always knew I would have died on the Oregon Trail, but had no idea that people were regularly dying from it up to the 70s. Thanks for bringing your heart to this episode.

This episode reminded me of a "splash and dash" emergency csection I was primary nurse for where I didn't even have time to change scrubs or put on sterile gloves. Anxiety inducing, lol!

I loved this and all your reactions. Call the Midwife is my favorite show - can never get through it without crying. I swear half the endings aren’t happy though. Placental abruptions are so scary. I was bleeding a lot with my last baby, and they kept saying “it’s more than we like, but we will keep going,” and I had my son pretty quickly. Afterward they said it was partially abrupted, and I’m grateful nothing worse happened. Anyways. Loved seeing your real emotion! Love your channel and Instagram ❤️

You should review the Thalidomide episode of Call the Midwife. I think it was the Season 5 premiere

This video made me cry my eyes out. So did the episode when I saw it. I had a PA @ 25 weeks, luckily it was partial & away from the cord so my son stayed in for another 10 weeks. But, the sheer fear I felt with blood trickling down my legs, lights and sirens to hospital, 10+ l&d people surrounding me filling me with cannulas & corresponding to our closest NICU hospital. Being told the NICU hospitals in my state were all full & I’d have to be flown to another state ( I live in Australia). It was panic inducing & I now suffer PTSD from it. My son was born at 36 weeks weighing 5p13oz, suffered with hypoglycaemia, neonatal apnea’s, couldn’t regulate his temperature, jaundice & needed oxygen in NICU. I will forever be thankful to the OBGYN’s & midwives that got me through it. My abruption happened on Christmas Day 2014. We’re so lucky he’s alive. He will be 5 next year 💖💖💖