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Helen George as Trixie Franklin, Claire Lams as Marnie Wallace. Credit: Courtesy of Neal Street Productions 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Call the Midwife<\/a> is back for a sixth season Sundays at 7 p.m., through May 21. Read the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing guest blog each Monday morning for historical and contemporary context about the previous night\u2019s episode. SPOILER ALERT: Some posts may contain spoilers.<\/p>\n

By Bethany Domzal Sanders
\nVanderbilt University School of Nursing<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"I have always admired Call the Midwife<\/strong> for maintaining a degree of authenticity about pregnancy, labor and birth that is rarely seen on television. Sunday\u2019s episode did not disappoint, from the forceps marks on baby Andrew\u2019s head, to the look on Shelagh\u2019s face when she heard her baby\u2019s heartbeat for the first time, to the peculiarity of having a group of male students peer into a woman\u2019s anatomy while she lies vulnerable on an exam table with her legs up in the air.<\/p>\n

This episode also portrayed the nature of attending adoption births in a way that did not offer judgement of either woman. Still, I hesitated about writing about this topic because I wasn\u2019t sure I would be able to adequately express what it is like to witness adoptions from the midwife\u2019s perspective. Adoption births can be intense affairs and I can recall details of every one that I\u2019ve attended. I would hazard a guess that Nurse Crane has more than my 10 years of midwifery experience, but even so I can relate to her statement about having \u201cmopped up more tears and dried up more milk supplies than I can shake a stick at.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tom captured it best when he described adoption as \u201cdelicate\u201d; that adjective so perfectly encompasses the mixed emotions and sometimes complex social issues surrounding these births. As midwives, we are charged to be \u201cwith woman\u201d \u2014 that is in fact the very origin of the word midwife. In adoptions, however, we sometimes find ourselves between<\/em> two women: the birth mother whose medical and emotional needs we attend to, and the adoptive mother, who has an entirely different set of emotional needs. We want to honor the gift the birth mother is choosing to give, but also to affirm her legal rights. We want the adoptive family to experience the joy that an infant brings, but not at the expense of another person.<\/p>\n

While it is rare, we occasionally witness a change of heart take place as occurred in this Call the Midwife<\/strong> episode. In my experience the scene plays out just as tearful and emotional as it did between Dot and Marnie.<\/p>\n

Bethany Domzal Sanders, MSN, CNM, is a member of the Vanderbilt Nurse-Midwives, the clinical practice of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing located at West End Women\u2019s Health Center.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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