Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the next few weeks she visited their house, saw the baby's room. There were phone calls and counseling sessions at the Independent Adoption Center in Pleasant Hill, Calif. In the private conference room there, Nicole felt happy with her choice. Still there were some delicate points to resolve...
...thinking of nursing the baby while you are in the hospital?" asked I.A.C. counselor Debbie Parelskin one afternoon. The conference room became very quiet, breathless. The last time this subject came up, negotiations broke down...
When Nicole entered the hospital on Aug. 26, Dick's beeper sounded and the Evanses rushed over from a Los Angeles Raiders game. Jan helped coach Nicole through her labor and the birth of the baby girl. The Evanses named her Rebecca; Nicole nursed her in the birthing room...
...language: "promiscuous," "barren," "illegitimate." When adoption professionals called a woman the natural mother, it left adoptive parents in a semantic dilemma. Were they unnatural parents? The techno-jargony "birth mother" was the more neutral alternative. All the secrecy reinforced the shame: as recently as the 1970s, some delivery-room nurses covered the mirrors and draped towels in front of a woman giving up her child, or even blindfolded her, so she could not see the baby. In the nursery the infants were marked DNS (do not show) or DNP (do not publish the mother's name). Says Rappaport: "Adoption...
...Says Joely: "Mother may have been a free spirit before we came along, but we were terribly normal and conventional as a family. Domestically, she's nothing like the force she is in acting and politics. She is not a creature of comforts. She will always take the smallest room in the house...