Call The Midwife anyone?

[Vivacia]

I'm at about an hour in, and don't think I can watch another minute.

Who played Avril? She seens very familiar.

Yes I thought that too. Beautiful actress!

Avril

There was a series on Aussie tv last year called Love Child, about a home for unmarried pregnant girls, and the forced adoptions. It was very interesting but OMG hard to watch. Love Child if anyone is interested. I don't suppose you'd be able to get it in the UK, but if you can, it's worth a watch. They've just re-run series 1, so I'm expecting series 2 to start sometime early in 2015...

If you ever get a chance to watch Long Lost Family, do - listening to the real life stories of how young, unmarried women had no other choice but to give up their babies in previous decades is just heart-wrenching. Lovely to see them reunited though, and in the vast majority of cases the adoptions were happy ones for the children

Have just watched the Christmas day episode. My birth mother was one of those mothers in a mother and baby home in 1966 so only 7 years after this episode was set. I was born on the first of the month, my birth was registered on the 23rd and the home wrote to my adoptive parents the same day asking if would be interested in having me. They collected me from the home when I was 5 weeks old having not met me first. It was Mornday Thursday, my adoptive parents took me home to be a little sister to a son they adopted 2 years earlier. My birth mother got on a train and went back home to Birmingham to join her family to celebrate Easter, where no one knew where she had been. I remember my adoptive mum saying to me that when they collected me they knew that my birth mother was in the next room having just given me up. She said as overjoyed as they were to have a new baby daughter she would never forget how desperately sad she felt for my birth mother.

Fudge - that's so sad Its a different world completely from the world we live in. Have you ever tried to find your birth mother?

It is isn't it SirChenjin. I sent for my original birth certificate about 9 years ago after finding my birth details on the birth index. When the law changed regarding mothers tracing babies they had given up I registered my interest in being contacted but no one ever has. I've had issues with rejection and chronic fear of abandonment my entire life and had a diagnoses of an attachment disorder after years of therapy. I think that another rejection would be too much to cope with if I went any further

I can completely understand that, absolutely. I'm so glad that we live in different times, and that women are no longer forced into the position that they were years ago.

My 7 yo watched it and turned to me with horror written all over her face saying "you can't do that. You can't take a baby away from its mother". She was outraged.

(Then followed a very long and convoluted discussion about why it happened).