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In June 1972, Limerick woman Ann O Gorman gave birth to a baby girl in the Bessborough mother-and-baby home in Cork. This was her first child and a difficult birth. It was a long tough labour, Ann told RTÉ’s This Week programme. I gave birth and heard the baby cry.
Ann remembers that a nurse was called to assist with the removal of the afterbirth and that she then slept for a considerable time. I was out cold for two or three days. When I woke up a nun came in and told me that my baby was an angel in heaven, she said.