The day I was born my Dad had a knock that evening. It was a policeman who said he had to come to the hospital urgently as my Mum may not survive the night.
He had to ask neighbours in Reddings Lane to take my 6 year old sister and 3 year old brother.I don't know how he got to Loveday St hospital as I am sure they did not have a car then.
Me and my twin brother had been delivered about 1pm but when my Mum was on the post natal ward a fellow patient noticed her hand showing under the screen. She had apparently had a fit and fallen right off the bed.
She was in a coma initially but came through and was nursed by a wonderful nurse by the appropriate name of Nurse Friend who she stayed in touch with for years.
She had gone two weeks late with twins which were not always diagnosed in those days and developed severe eclampsia.
I was 4lb and my brother 6lb so I went into an incubator.
When she came home my Gran said 'You'll not rear that one!' very helpfully so my Mum said!!
I nearly repeated the situation in 1989 at Sorrento as I also developed severe eclampsia and had been pregnant with twins but had miscarried one of them at 12 weeks.
George was delivered safely by caesarean and the sister was a Trinidadian friend from Ronkswood where I'd worked 13 years earlier.
I was an older mum then though not these days and the happiest in the world.
He had to ask neighbours in Reddings Lane to take my 6 year old sister and 3 year old brother.I don't know how he got to Loveday St hospital as I am sure they did not have a car then.
Me and my twin brother had been delivered about 1pm but when my Mum was on the post natal ward a fellow patient noticed her hand showing under the screen. She had apparently had a fit and fallen right off the bed.
She was in a coma initially but came through and was nursed by a wonderful nurse by the appropriate name of Nurse Friend who she stayed in touch with for years.
She had gone two weeks late with twins which were not always diagnosed in those days and developed severe eclampsia.
I was 4lb and my brother 6lb so I went into an incubator.
When she came home my Gran said 'You'll not rear that one!' very helpfully so my Mum said!!
I nearly repeated the situation in 1989 at Sorrento as I also developed severe eclampsia and had been pregnant with twins but had miscarried one of them at 12 weeks.
George was delivered safely by caesarean and the sister was a Trinidadian friend from Ronkswood where I'd worked 13 years earlier.
I was an older mum then though not these days and the happiest in the world.
