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Gosh, never heard this before
My eldest is only 24, but haven't things changed
My daughter was 21 on the 3rd march [LC day] and on such a significant birthday I did go down memory lane a bit more than usual on birthdays.
The 3rd was a Friday that year, she was born like my son in the evening. There were concerns about her next morning and I had to wait until she had wee'd before I could go home, that took nearly 24 hours, so I was still in hospital on the Sunday which happened to be Mothering Sunday
[In Britain Mothering Sunday is a moveable feast, it depends on the date of Easter]
I chatted as I was waiting to go to an older midwife; she told me that in the days when there was a nursery and babes were put in overnight, on mothering Sunday before they wheeled the cots out to the mums they put a bunch of violets in each baby's hand.
I think the cute picture that painted for me made it even sadder that these mothers started their first mothering Sunday all alone with their babes elsewhere. But the thought was kind. Mothering Sunday this year is on this coming Sunday, I think the memory was retriggered by thinking about this
Helen Butler
England
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