Stillborn or Stolen?

“They Told Me My Baby was Dead”

The post-WWII market demand for newborn infants has resulted in the use of coercion and fraud to obtain babies from vulnerable mothers. One particularly heinous technique was to drug the mother during the birth and tell her later that her baby had died. Confirmed cases happened all over Australia and the U.S. Did it happen in Canada too?

Sometimes the babies were given in rapid adoption to the parents of a recently stillborn child (not having intended to adopt) to replace their own dead infant so as not to leave the hospital empty handed. Sometimes the baby was sold by medical staff as a “black-market adoption.”

If you think that your child may have been taken in this manner, if you were unmarried and/or young and were told that your baby was “still-born” but you suspect or have discovered otherwise, please contact: caseresearcher@yahoo.ca

“My Mother had me just before she and my father got married. Her doctor, at the time, convinced her that giving me up for adoption was the only choice that she had. Once we found each other, we found that my adoption was certainly not handled properly. I was placed with his nurse’s daughter and we are still trying to sort out the damage done and lies told, today. After she and my father were married, she had a second child. Just slightly over a year after my birth. Same doctor. The doctor told her that her baby had died, while she was pregnant, he told her not to worry that she would go full term and deliver the baby naturally (after doing an internal exam and listening to her stomach with a stethascope)

“She went home in disbelief. She was convinced that he was wrong. A few days later she went into labour. While waiting for the doctor to arrive, a nurse brought in an incubator, and she was shocked when my mother informed her that her baby was dead. My mother was drugged, pushed back on the table when she tried to see the baby, she was denied the right to see her baby, and she was told that an autopsy couldn’t be done because the baby was too badly decayed, yet the delivery felt normal. The records of stillbirth and many other unanswered questions, in conjunction with the way my separation from my mother was handled, leads us to believe that my mother’s second child may still be alive. My mother and I cannot rest until we know the truth! We believe that other women out there may have had similar circumstances with stillbirth or adoption. We certainly believe that the doctor that delivered me may have been involved in questionable practices.” – Sheri. (Ottawa, ON).