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« on: Monday 20 May 19 10:07 BST (UK) »
Hi Nah da.
I'm so sorry for your situation, I can't really say whether your mother would be telling the truth or not. What I can tell you is my experience of being in St. Theresa's mother and baby home back in the early 80s not too long after you were born. Whilst there I met many women from different denominations and different countries but quite a lot from Ireland. I was pregnant and left before giving birth but I know for a fact women gave birth there. I think there was a hospital wing in the home because you could often hear the women in labour. I never thought too much about it then, but looking back not too many of those babies ever ended up back in the care of their mothers. I don't know what happened to them, some people have spoken about mass graves in the ground of the home and some have said that the babies were sold but I don't know which is true because I was only very young then and didn't really have much experience of the horrors that went on in these places. They were very disciplined though, and being an unmarried mother was considered to be a sin. I've seen so many terrible things in this place, we were all made to wash the habits and other clothes of the nuns and it didn't matter whether you were sick, in labour or exhausted you still had to do it and those places were boiling hot. Maybe your mum was telling you the truth but thank goodness you're alive and well if she did have you there. please let me know how you get on and if I can be of any further help please contact me. Julie