I'm not normally a sentimental person but....

[GrapefruitMoon]

this brought a tear to my eyes...

lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/family/story/0,,2189722,00.html

Have recently read Kate Adie's book about foundlings too. Hope the mother doea come forward so that even if she wants him to be adopted, he will know something about his background....

wee soul

I feelso sad for his mother- to be so desperate as to do that, but so loving as to have to sense to leave him where he'd be found & cared for. God bless them both.

That was really nicely written. I hope if he is adopted that his adoptors show him the article when he's older. It puts a positive spin on a very sad start in life by emphasising how many people cared for and about him, and that his mother left him somewhere safe where she knew he would be found.

You're right bran. That article in his memory box would be lovely to look back on-if rather sad.

shed a little tear at my desk reading that

The positive thing is his mother wanted him to be found and if he is adopted (as I was) he will be with someone who really wnats him

Made me cry too. I'd never really thought before about how many lives an abandoned baby must touch - and how emotional it must be for everyone involved. His poor Mum - she did want him to be found, she did care about him and like tmmj says, she must have been desperate.

Choked me up too. And gave me a start. DH's name is Andrew Mark. And he was adopted.

Weird co-incidence. And I am Fiona and the hosp co-ordinator is Fiona too.

I was sniffling as I read it.

i read one this morning about a baby being left on a doorstep with just a baby grow on and the umblical cord still clamped, just a few hours old.

here

Love him - so sad.

I do wonder at the stories behind these tragic situations. I mean we're hardly a victorian age where under-age/unmarried parents are social outcasts so why can't these poor girls ask for help?

So sad they must be very young &/or very frightened, maybe don't speak English?

My heart sinks at the thought of them going through all that probably alone & probably in some stinking back street or dump.

Maybe they are forcibly seperated from their babes by a pimp or abusive partner?

dosen't bear thinking about does it really?