The Jordmor

Radio Free Bay Ridge by Radio Free Bay Ridge

Oct 26, 202458:58News & Politics

Meet Ingeborg Andreas Blundell: Bay Ridge's midwife, nurse, and abortionist for over a half-century. Practicing from the 1910's through to the 1960's, Ingeborg was a Jordmor: a Norwegian midwife. Operating out of her apa...

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