Giveaway: Call the Midwife

BBC Home Entertainment recently brought the British drama Call the Midwife: Season One to Blu-ray and DVD. The series is based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth, and is an intimate, funny and, above all, true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the 1950s.

When Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine, The Woman in Black) first arrives in Poplar, East London, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty or indeed, life itself. Attached to an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House, Jenny is part of a team of midwives who visit expectant mothers, providing the poorest women with the best possible care. Here, the streets teem with children and with only a single eight-bed maternity ward to serve the whole district, most deliveries take place at home. The series follows Jenny as she travels through the streets to meet her patients - including Conchita, who is on her 25th pregnancy, and Mary, a prostitute and pregnant at just 15 years old. Along the way Jenny learns to admire the families she works with, as well as the sisters and fellow midwives who witness the daily drama of life in this vibrant community on the brink of huge social change.

I have the chance to give away 2 copies of this series. I had never heard of it, but after I watched it, I found it entertaining and very informative. If you're interested in checking it out, leave a comment with your best pregnancy or birth story. Deadline is December 9th.

Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this DVD to facilitate this review and post.