![]() ![]() ![]() Together, they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labors, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives.īut when Gilbert Thomas, a brash medical doctor, comes to Scots Bay with promises of fast, painless childbirth, some of the women begin to question Miss Babineau's methodsâ?and after Miss Babineau's death, Dora is left to carry on alone. During the turbulent first years of World War I, Dora becomes the midwife's apprentice. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing and a kitchen filled with herbs and folk remedies. The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of the Rare family. ![]()
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