![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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 methods-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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