This show was shown in Australia on the ABC (the public broadcaster) and has 
just finished. Jean, the time was the post-war period, 1950s or very 
early-1960s, and the midwives did home deliveries - including of unexpected 
triplets in one of the last episodes. You may have noticed in the show, they 
went off on their bikes, carrying their delivery kits, when called to a 
delivery. This waws very different form the US situation for the same 
period.
The clothes and music give an idea of the period. It was after the 
artificial fibre "crimplene" was starting to be used in clothing, including 
uniforms - so deplored by the mother of the tall, upper-class midwife in the 
final episode.
Virginia

Dr Virginia Thorley, OAM, PhD, IBCLC, FILCA
Historian of Medicine
Brisbane, Queensland
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Jean wrote: I myself watch it more with a sense of history. My guess is that 
it is set in the very early 20th century, so mainly only male physicians, 
hospitalization, twilight sleep, and general anesthetics intrude themselves 
into that history before my first experience in OB as a student nurse in 
1948.  7 years as an L&D nurse after graduation may have made me feel more 
"at home" with the setting. 

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