Midwives and Midwife training in the 50's

Here the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVD5JTXVNhE

At about 15:43 you can see the preparation of small but very soapy enema to be administered with a Higginson syringe connected to a rubber rectal tube.

Unfortunately, the administration of the enema to the woman is not shown :-(

How do you see it is very soapy?

Adding onto this Call the Midwife a British show portrays enemas used to induce labor and clean the bowel too. I really like this show. The women have a lot of control over their labor and birth with a midwife compared to some, but not all controlling doctors. The one thing I didn't like about this time was the fact the partner wasn't allowed to be in the birth room well until Dr. Patrick and Shelaugh changed that in Season 6 with the birth of their son.

Well in Call the Midwife, at least the few extracts I've seen, the women have very little control over their birth; the midwife decides. They get shaved and are given an enema whether they like it or not (the only way to escape that, it seems, would have been to shave oneself and give the enema to oneself). The midwives are proud to give "hot, high and the hell of a lot" and the enema seems quite soapy. Some mothers object ("it's not dignified") but they are still given an enema. One may also suppose that they are helped to the chamber pot or toilet by the midwife... think of the humiliation!

@Pecan_nutjob Golly, you're right. I think I meant in the sense they have more womanly support. Might need to edit my response.