Oh God, I'm crying after seeing that on catch-up.
It was terrible that they didn't hold April or even see her and that she was on the draining board.
Everyone was caring though. I suppose they were just following the rules at the time.
I loved the symbolism of the booties and being warm.
I wonder where or if she would have been buried? There was a much earlier episode where still born babies were buried in an unmarked mass grave in an unconsecrated kind of courtyard and a mother kept being drawn to it. That was tragic too.
Sorry for your mum and you reindeer. My niece died about 10 years before your brother but she was a few days old so has a grave. They treated the babies differently then but I'm shocked they were still doing it in 1981. I hope it's different now.
People were talking a couple of pages back about playing on bombsites. Where I grew up it hadn't been bombed but we had an estate of pre-fabs. Most of them were empty and ready for demolition but my friend lived in one of the few that were still occupied and was waiting to be re-housed.
I remember a fantastic summer playing in the abandoned gardens. They'd run riot. Groves of roses, rhododendrons, dahlias and hollyhocks that were thick and tall enough for you to hide in.
It's a light industrial estate now where a flower never shows its face unless it's a pesky buddleia that's too tough to root out and gets covered in bees and butterflies 