My birth

[Viktoria]

Yes, I wonder what that baby would have been  like ,another girl but as non identical perhaps a boy .
I thought I was still carrying the baby ,well I was one, but one had been lost -
mostly in the Drs,on the floor, after a brutal internal examination .
I thought that was it, the appointment next day was for a D&C.
I was even given Ergot.
I had no idea it was having twins. Had my GP not intervened I might have had what would effectively have been an abortion.and I would have lost my daughter too. It is horrible to think about it .
It was too early to hear heartbeats. No scans  in 1967.
But after that I was so well looked after by my GP . The wonderful Dr,Guenter.
He died two years ago ,a lovely Belgian man ,with thank goodness perfect English .
Just a pity he was on holiday at the Belgian coast when I phoned him ,,well his practice, but he came back to see me that evening after checking with his locum ,and said I must not go to the Clinic for the D&C.
Stop taking the Ergot.
I wonder if the lost baby might have been saved.
I do remember it ,and always on its would have been birth date.
Hope anyone who has lost a baby gets some comfort from remembering those little scraps of humanity ,what they might have become .
They will be somewhere besides our hearts ,always loved and remembered.
Viktoria.

[Pennines]

Oh I am SO sorry to hear these stories of the lost babies. How very sad, the only comfort I could fall back on in such circumstances would be, 'that it was not meant to be'.

Those lost little ones will be looking down in rainbows and will never be forgotten.

[coombs]

Some may find it a bit strange but I always am interested in when an ancestor was "made", 9 months (thereabouts) before they were born, well more into the dates of conception as opposed to the actual conception. for instance, my great aunty was born 27 April 1926, so would have been conceived around July/Aug 1925. My grandad was born on 25 September, so he was "made" around Christmas time.

[Viktoria]

We were taught the way to calculate was count from the first day of menstrustion ,add seven days - no matter if that is not totally correct, then add nine calendar months ,that is the birth date.
40 weeks.
That allows for eleven months having two to three extra days over 28.
Viktoria.

[BillyF]

Thanks for starting this topic and on the subject of photos who are the gorgeous youngsters on your profile pics mare &
Treetotal
+ Your young ladies  BillyF
 & Maddy ( *I think I've asked before )

The baby in my profile is my late aunt Sylvia JONES who my nana walked home with in her arms from the hospital

   It`s me!  BF !! In 1964

Thanks for all the interesting anecdotes.

[Treetotal]

Pennines....yes we had Gerrys too, my Father called them  Gosunders, because it goes-under the bed.  During the day, they were put either side of the toilet with San Izal disinfect, then weekly were scrubbed with carbolic soap.
Carol

[DianaCanada]

Some may find it a bit strange but I always am interested in when an ancestor was "made", 9 months (thereabouts) before they were born, well more into the dates of conception as opposed to the actual conception. for instance, my great aunty was born 27 April 1926, so would have been conceived around July/Aug 1925. My grandad was born on 25 September, so he was "made" around Christmas time.

Funny I was thinking about this as I was reading earlier posts, as I was born on September 25th too! But as Viktoria pointed out, the expected birthdate is calculated from the last period and carried forward 9 months.  So I think New Year’s Eve was more likely!

[Pennines]

Carol - I am so pleased to hear that I was not the only person to have these 'facilities' in the family when I was a child.

However, in my head, I had always spelt them as Jerry and Guzunder - whereas you spell them Gerry and Gusunder. Mind you, we never got those words in a spelling test at school did we - so how do we know how they were spelt!!

[Top-of-the-hill]

  For some reason, in our house my mother called them "chambers", presumably short for chamber pot. I wonder if that is what they were called by the staff in the "big house" where she worked as a girl?