season 14

When Things Go Wrong In Body, Mind, and Attitude

by Michelle Collins | May 07, 2025

Decades ago, women were encouraged to stay in bed for extended periods of time after birth. We now encourage them to be up and out of bed very soon after birth. Mrs. Midgley's case shows why.

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Navigating Hostility: A New Normal in Healthcare

by Andrea Altomaro | May 06, 2025

In healthcare today, we talk a lot about checking our implicit biases and realizing our own microaggressions, but how do we react when it’s the patient treating the nurse or midwife poorly?

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Call the Midwife Season 14 Episode 6 GIF Recap

by Audrey Porter | May 05, 2025

Not everyone is smiling in Poplar this week – and we can’t blame them. After all, there’s a pressing public health crisis sparked by the recent dustmen’s strike.

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Poverty and Pregnancy

by Michelle Collins | May 02, 2025

Poverty and pregnancy… two words that are too often unfortunately paired together. Add interpersonal violence to that equation, and it is a deadly triple threat.

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Providers with Servant Hearts

by Katie Moriarty | April 30, 2025

As providers, we are often faced with life and death situations or witness individual’s personal traumas. But the act of helping others and really engaging can rejuvenate us.

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Keep Reaching Out Your Hand

by Andrea Altomaro | April 29, 2025

This episode highlights the vulnerability of pregnant women, and that healthcare providers need to be diligent about screening for abuse and intimate partner violence.

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Call the Midwife Season 14 Episode 5 GIF Recap

by Audrey Porter | April 28, 2025

Are we the only ones who needed a box of tissues for last week’s episode? If you don’t have them already, that might change after this episode….

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Yearning To Belong

by Michelle Collins | April 22, 2025

I found the theme of this episode to be belonging. At the end of the day, we all just want to belong – somewhere, to a group of people who care about us.

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Call the Midwife Season 14 Episode 4 GIF Recap

by Audrey Porter | April 21, 2025

Sometimes, when it rains, it pours, and that’s just how it feels at times for the people of Poplar this week... but rest assured, not all is lost!

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