Letter to the Editor: Do not close Mother and Baby Home records

File Photo from the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway. 

I am 39 years old. I am married with two children and live in Co Galway. I know my full name, where I was born, and who my parents are.

I was born in the Sacred Heart Nursing Home in Cork. It is also known as the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home. Mother and Baby Homes were still in existence in 1981. My mam has told me that her job was to care for the babies in the nursery while she was staying in the home. She had been training as a nurse in London before she got pregnant so she was deemed responsible and experienced to look after the babies.