In the new film there is a scene where Sybil's father is burying a baby wrapped in a towel in the flower garden. I don't recall this from either the book nor the original movie. Does anyone know if the baby was Hattie's? I'd assume if it was one of her babysitting charges someone would have come looking for the child. The whole thing struck me as strange.
shareIn the book it's mentioned that Hattie had some miscarriages, which would be considered still births (ie, baby born dead.) There was a lot less government involvement in personal lives in the 1920s, and considering whether it was a "mass of tissue" or a formed child, it probably wouldn't have been unusual for the family to simply dispose of the fetus and afterbirth themselves.
shareMiscarriages and still borns are two different things...a miscarriage is basically the woman's body aborting the baby before the second trimester! Still born is when the baby is born at full term, but dead! They are called two different things cause they are two different things!
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Yes, the book mentions a son who was stillborn and subsequently buried outside in the yard.
shareThat was in the book...it was around the same part where they talked about how Sybil witnessed her mother and father having sex. Yes, the baby was Hattie's, and the baby was a little boy.
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