who watched??
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Topic: who watched??
Posted By: _SMS_
Subject: who watched??
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 7:29am
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That movie on ch1 last night about the babys etc. With Keisha Castle Hughes.
Was oh so sad but obviously happened alot back in the days   -------------  
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Posted By: BugTeeny
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 7:36am
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Oh bugger!
I knew it was on and I missed it  ------------- 
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Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 8:22am
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Yes I did ------------- Mama to DS1 (5 years), DS2 (3 years) and... http://alterna-tickers.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 10:02am
Yes I did and DH told me off for making myself upset. 
So good but man how sad was the bit by the clothes line? (ambiguous so it doesn't spoil it for those who have taped it but haven't seen it yet) -------------  
 
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Posted By: Babe
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 10:26am
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Blast I missed it too. I've watched another one along the same lines but set in ireland and it was a true story. It was so sad and really unfair!!!
What happened last night?? Did they get their babies back? -------------   
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Posted By: emachan
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 10:31am
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bugger - I missed it - wonder if it will be on tvnz on demand? ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  DD#1 Sept 08 DD#2 Oct 09 |
Posted By: _SMS_
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 10:34am
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Yes i hated the bit on the clothes line. But what scared me more is that in NZ this probably happened alot.
I was only born in 87 so im not from that era but those poor older generations obviously suffered alot more than what kids do nowadays. What really scared me was how it would feel to loose a baby i couldnt imagine it -------------
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Posted By: M2K
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 12:01pm
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Yes I watched it, quite liked the story, how they were helping the 'hard' teenager (I assume she was a teenager haha) while dealing with their own memories, when there was no one to help them.
Sad to think they actually had places like that in the days for unwed pregnant teenagers *gulp* ------------- 
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Posted By: ooEvaoo
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 12:14pm
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Yup hard to believe, was very sad!. The fish n chips bit was funny!.....man how good would that have tasted after what they were feed in the convant place! ------------- 
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 12:43pm
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I know they're nothing like the homes from the past but there are still houses for teenage mums around. There is one over the back fence from a friend of mine in Ponsonby and he says every now and then he hears a newborn baby crying -------------
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Posted By: McPloppy
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 12:44pm
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If anyone recorded on their hard drive and feels like copying it to disk then sending to me I would love them forever. LOL or I could just hire it from the library (i think you can...or was it made for TV)
I forgot all about it. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 12:47pm
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Was that actually an accurate portrayal of how things were, does anyone know? Like the labouring by themselves, dragged walking down the hall straight after birth all bloody, not allowed to see baby even when they asked, having to do physical work, that sorta thing? It's awful. I can't IMAGINE having to cope with all that at 37 weeks pregnant. It's sick. And even more sick that these were young girls, children really.
The clothesline scene ------------- Mama to DS1 (5 years), DS2 (3 years) and... http://alterna-tickers.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 12:48pm
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I was in a house for teenage mums, was great very supportive etc, and I imagine very different from that era, they support whichever decision you make.
I didn't watch all of it , DH finally arrived home and it wasn't holding my attention enough to keep watching . The one set in Ireland Babe, was that The Magdelene sisters ? thats a good movie ------------- 
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Posted By: palomino
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 12:52pm
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 12:54pm
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A piece of my heart
ETA: I saw in the credits it was based on a book called 'does this make sense to you?' but I didn't get the author's name. -------------
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Posted By: RBsMama
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 2:22pm
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It was very sad. The clothesline scene had me in tears! It would be interesting to see if the book was based on fact.
Just googled it and it was written by Renee Taylor and it is fiction. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: peachy
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 2:49pm
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Arohanui, yes it was correct and does show how things were back then. I have had a heart to heart with my Nana and the things she went through during childbirth are horrific. She also had 2 babies taken away from her at birth and she never saw them again, all they said was "they didn't survive birth" and that was that - the end. For all she knows they could be alive to this day - we will never know.
She also said during child birth women were not to make noise, if they did they were slapped and told to shut up. That movie last night made me bawl my eyes out. Such an awful thing to know that that actually happened here in our country ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: sweetpea
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 2:51pm
| i didn't see all of it just bits of it. I would be interested to know if it really was that way i take it we are talking in about 1950s when to have bub out of wedlock was a real no no. The only good thing that i can say about them is and don't take this the wrong way is that the adoption rate was really high so those who were wanting a bub got one much quicker than they do now the DPB wasn't around back then. |
Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 9:28pm
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We were always told that "back in the old days " the unmarried women at the Teenage mum place I was at , were pretty much treated like servants to the married mothers (it was originally a maternity hospital ) up and down the stairs to the married mothers all day, whilst being tired and pregnant themselves . -------------
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Posted By: GlimmerShine
Date Posted: 06 April 2009 at 11:34pm
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For those of you who didn't get to see it last night, I've just seen that it is uploaded at TVNZonDemand ...
http://tvnzondemand.co.nz/content/pieceofmyheart/ondemand_video_skin?tab=CATCH%20UP - Here's the link
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