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Where were you born? Were you born in a hospital or home,or some other place and under what circumstances? Do you still have ties to your birthplace or a desire to visit that place?

I was born in the same town where I grew up,where my mother still lives. I was born in the house in the picture .The family doctor who lived up the road came to the house and because it was snowing recommended my mother stay right where she was. (my mother said he reeked of gin,always reminded me of the Beatles song "Rocky Raccoon"). My father was out at the time and when he returned home,there I was,wailing away,all ten pounds of me. My mother said I just rolled right out.

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I was born somewhere in this building, Gulfport Memorial Hospital.

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Is is still there K.?

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Apparently it looks a bit different now. I have no idea what if anything is left of the original building.

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I love the old cars in the original.

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They were new cars then!

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I was born at home, on a farm.

[bixaorellana]

When I was born my parents lived in a small town 24 miles north of Baton Rouge. As I was their first child, my mother opted to have me in a hospital -- Our Lady of the Lake, in Baton Rouge.

"In choosing a site on which to carry out her mission, Mother de Bethanie insisted on an unlikely briar patch across University Lake from the original Louisiana State University campus. On Nov. 4, 1923, her vision found reality in a beautiful, four-story brick structure as Our Lady of the Lake Sanitarium opened its doors to the city. For nearly 55 years, Our Lady of the Lake provided comfort and peace of mind to residents of Baton Rouge and the surrounding areas...
On April 2, 1978, the original hospital was closed and a 460-bed, state-of-the-art facility on Essen Lane opened to better serve a population that had grown to the south and east of the original location."

Thirty years after I was born, Gov. Edwin Edwards pressed a button that blew up the original hospital. I am unable to find a web photo.

[fumobici]

Those before and after hospital photos neatly illustrate why health care expenses are bankrupting the US.

[lola]

Good point, fumobici. On the other hand, new mothers were pampered in hospital for a week in those days, and now it's an outpatient procedure practically. Patients also got nightly back rubs then; apparently more emphasis on humans than on equipment. (Your roommate would likely have been smoking cigarettes in bed, though.)

I was born at St. Elizabeth's, Boston. My mother was born there, too, with the same OB as JFK.

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lola said:
I was born at St. Elizabeth's, Boston. My mother was born there, too, with the same OB as JFK.



I worked as a PBX operator at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in 1970-71!!

[lola]

Sister!

I hope they treated you as nicely as they did us, since my mother and i were both discharged alive and well.

I worked in the attic of Billings Hospital at the U of Chicago for a similar length of time, filing and retrieving xrays under the eaves, back in the days when you could just stroll in to a place like that and get a job.

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That's funny lola! Yes, I loved that job,went on to work at other institutions doing the same,even in St. Louis.

[rikita]

hospital. in berlin. so though i grew up NEAR berlin, i can say i am a berliner by birth, and all. my uncle was supposedly born in the taxi to the hospital, though another time i was told he was born at home before they even could get a taxi. or that there was some reason keeping them from leaving the house. maybe i should ask my grandma for the story - and not rely on my dad, who after all was only a year old at the time...

[traveler63]

Hospital in the Los Angeles area. Since I was adopted really have very little info but I did find my birthmother and I have 3 half brothers, not too interested in pursuing any further.

[existentialcrisis]

I could also only find an old pic. Grace Maternity Hospital in Halifax, built in 1922. Not sure when this pic was taken.

[imec]

Nov 26, 2009 14:44:38 GMT existentialcrisis said:

I could also only find an old pic. Grace Maternity Hospital in Halifax, built in 1922. Not sure when this pic was taken.

Long before emissions controls ;D

[bjd]

I was born at home. In those days in England, if the pregnancy was considered uncomplicated, babies were born at home with a midwife attending.

[tillystar]

I was born in a small maternity home that held only about 20 mothers and babies at a time. Apparently they were very popular in the UK in the 1970s. My Mum tells me it was great – it was a small unit run by nurses. They stayed in for 10 days afterwards and were waited on hand and foot so they could concentrate on feeding the baby. Babies were also taken away for a couple of hours in the afternoon so the new Mum’s could get a proper rest. It always sounds like something from Enid Blyton, she told me they sneaked wine in to celebrate after lights out and had midnight feasts.

By the time my brother was born 2 years later the NHS had realised what an expense these places were and it had been pulled down.

[imec]

St Catherine's Hospital, Tranmere, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England

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That looks more like a fish processing plant than a hospital!

[imec]

No, a nother fine NHS facility.

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Oh, that's a relief! So they converted the building then.

[imec]

Yes, after all us fish were old enough to go to a school.

[fumobici]

Scouser, then?

[imec]

Well, the real Scousers, the Liverpudlians, would not allow anyone from "across the water" (the Mersey) to claim to be one. In fact, many of them do not even recognize the Wirral peninsula as Merseyside but rather, Deeside (the Dee being the other river that works with the Mersey and the Irish Sea to create the peninsula.