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Maternity Homes?

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Victor

Victor Report 11 Aug 2008 21:31

I agree with Becs and Margaret. I was born in a Maternity Home in 1925. Simply a maternity extension to the Royal Berks Hospital, even though a separate building some three miles from the main hospital.
Victor

Rioja

Rioja Report 11 Aug 2008 21:28

Thanks all, that has cleared that up..

The individual concerned seems to have stayed at the maternity home after becoming pregnant after her husband had died 2 years earlier, and his death was this reported in the press quite extensively. The address of the place is on the childs birth certificate.

It seems she moved from Manchester to blackpool to avoid (or so I thought) awkward questions from friends and family

May be I got the wrong end of the stick!

Chica in the sun ☼

Chica in the sun ☼ Report 11 Aug 2008 21:24

yes like Becs said. My maternity home was just a place to deliver your baby, run by midwives with Doctors on call. Nice friendly cosy places they were.

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 11 Aug 2008 21:22

Maternity homes were places where women went for the birth of their child.
In 1960s it was common to stay in for 10 to 14 days I believe.
Some were privately run, others by the local health authority.
For any mothers-to-be not just unmarried people.

Gwyn

Battenburg

Battenburg Report 11 Aug 2008 21:21



I agree with Becs. I went to a maternity home for my first child .

BeckyS

BeckyS Report 11 Aug 2008 21:18

Hi Claire

Well my daughter was born in a maternity home and it was just the maternity wing of the hospital. Possibily years ago people stayed in longer when having a baby not like today in and out in 6 hours!

Becs

Rioja

Rioja Report 11 Aug 2008 21:14

Hello all,

Could anyone tell me what a maternity home is? I'm thinking something along the lines of a hostel for unmarried mothers? How would someone have got into one of these in the 1940s's?

Regards

Claire