Inspired by Margaret Charlotte Falkson Thomson's memoir.
Many early prairie women gave birth at home, often with help only from her husband or a neighbour. Recalling the summer of 1920 in her memoir, Margaret had been awoken in the night by Tony, the father of the baby, who asked her to help with the birth. The labouring mother’s name was Maria, who had emigrated with her family from Italy and spoke very little English.

"I was conducted into a small bedroom where the patient lay in agony. The clean bed was surrounded by several frustrated women, who were counting their rosary beads while praying loudly and fervently… I recognized a breach presentation; the delivery would indeed be a complicated and difficult one."

Margaret came from Germany in 1919 to the Fort Assiniboine Alberta Canada area.
Provincial Archives of Alberta #PR1984.0156.
Photograph of unidentified woman & baby , [S. Alberta early 1900s] Glenbow Archives #nc7-326a