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
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"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).
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