Unmarried mums tied to beds, sedated during birth

A parliamentary inquiry into forced adoptions has heard how unmarried mothers were tied to beds and sedated as they gave birth.

Christine Cole gave birth to a baby girl at Crown Street Women’s Hospital in Sydney in 1969.

She has studied forced adoptions for a PhD and believes many Australians are not aware of the practices the authorities used to carry out.

Mothers were being tied to beds or drugged or had pillows or sheets held in front of their face so they couldn’t see the baby at the birth — that was kept from the public, she said — via redwolf.newsvine.com