WOMENS MEDICAL HOSPITAL - PHILADELPHIA, PA

I remember when I was delivered in the delivery room/birthing room at the maternity ward of Women's Medical Hospital, 41st Street and Baring Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.Starting with being fully clothed and being held by the doctor who delivered me, I remember being passed to one of two, three, or four doctors/nurses to the left of me who carried me to my mother who was lying down in bed. She held me for a while and she was soft and warm. That same nurse later took me from her and carried me through a door I would never pass through again to the waiting room and placed me in a crib. Waking up the babies: The head nurse shook me and said: This one gets a bottle. Then she placed a bottle in my mouth, took my left hand and then my right hand to hold it. With a wall to my left, my being in the middle of a row of ten, and with a parallel row to my right, this head nurse then gave orders to the other nurses. Take her to her mother! Take him to his mother! Give him a bottle! ... 20% to 25% of babies remained. Flashback of a day or two ago. Take him to his mother. A nurse carried me out of the waiting room through a door opposite the delivery room door into a hall. She turned left and carried me down a long hall and then entered a room diagonally to the right. I saw a lady to my left with her head against the wall and feet toward me. Her daughter had not been brought in. Similarly, the lady to my fight and not had her son brought in. Then she carried me straight back to my mother straight ahead. Again, she was soft and warm - but I found out this time that she was vey nice. Take him to his mother. Mother was standing up fully clothed with a suitcase. There was Dad and my sister Sondra (soon to be six). Where were we going? Mother carried me out of her room into the hall and we all turned left to the elevator down to the lobby. On the main floor I saw all the people, not just women and babies! Outside?! Into the car?! We're moving! We're going for a ride! Whee. Down 41st Street to Haverford Avenue. Turn right to 52nd Street. Turn right again to Westminster Avenue. Turn left to Wilton Street. Turn left again to 421 North Wilton Street. Out of the car and into the house. Dad took me from Mother, threw me on the big bed, changed me, and laced me in my new crib. What?! I had been evicted from my crib in the waiting room! What a hectic day that was for me!