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Strange Conceptions November 1947

Article by Darlynne

After World War II, a military hospital in Biloxi, Mississippi, was allegedly the site of some highly controversial conceptions between nurses at the hospital, and civilians from the surrounding countryside. I have spoken with former members of the military, who were at that hospital in the late 1940s/early 1950s, who have affirmed that this story is to be taken seriously. Some people would call this a "baby mill", to provide "perfect" white babies for adoption.

Five of these children, all girls, were conceived in November 1947, and later abandoned in the nature of foundlings at a New Orleans maternity home -- that opened just a few weeks before five "very expectant" birth mothers arrived. These birth mothers had all attended a picnic on about 10 November 1947 at a place called Back Bayou inland from Biloxi.

I know of two of the girls born at that maternity home. I'm not particularly searching for the other three. What I would like is more corroborative information (without overstepping anyone's privacy, of course), that such a "baby mill" did exist.

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on 2015-06-18 09:24:29

Darlynne , from New Orleans, Louisiana, has been a Family Tree Circles member since May 2015.

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by KableWalker on 2015-10-29 21:08:50

Hello Darlynne
I have absolutely no evidence that any "baby mill" existed, but I can imagine that a few unplanned pregnancies may have occurred at that time and place. The men involved were probably completely overjoyed that they were still alive and the women nursing them would have become attached to some of them, despite their training to remain "detached and professional". Human beings are drawn together and driven to reproduce in circumstances like war, so it does not surprise me that spontaneous pairing took place. As a past research psychologist I would say there was no need for a "white" "baby mill" - any people spending more than a few days at the hospital/army camp might have become accidental parents. I would wish all parties the very best in life.Pregnancy might have been against the rules, but it's not against Nature.
Cheers
Kay

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