Poplar Gurls ☆

Barbara Gilbert

Chapter by charitchiestrash

Hello! I'm Barbara Gilbert, Most people just call me Barbara but Trixie and Patsy call me Babs. I've been at Nonnatus House for about 5 years now and I still have to make up for what happened on the first night I joined, I'll be forever guilty about it.

I grew up in Liverpool with my father whose a canon/clergyman and my mother and my older sister. Growing up my family who sometimes dipped into poverty was quite hard, but we had love and that's what really matters. I'm quite an open person and I love to share and help everyone but if you ask for a sherbet lolly the answer will be no, unless your tom. He actually steals them from my mouth, but he's wonderful really.

I live for midwifery it's such a beautiful gift to hand over a mothers baby to her and see the instant bond of love there is, it's lovely! There was this one day where I delivered three babies all in that day I felt like Father Christmas, it was magical!
Recently I had the wedding of my dreams and married my beloved husband tom, he too a parish man, we make each other complete even if I had to buy my own engagement ring, the original blade of grass I got in Africa was breaking down.