Stillbirth: ‘I’ve found my babies’ graves 67 years on’

A short drive away at Everton cemetery, Mrs Rawsthorne arrived to see where her stillborn baby girl was buried.

She described the experience of being at her baby girl’s graveside as “lovely”.

Ms Norton reminds her mother of what happened when her baby girl arrived.

“On the first one you got to hold him, didn’t you? But you didn’t get to hold this one,” she said.

“No,” her mother recalled.

Both of the babies were born at home and stored in a sideboard drawer before being collected for the cemetery.

Mrs Rawsthorne described how she could not open that drawer for years after suffering the losses, a pain felt, too, by her daughter.

“When she said to me she couldn’t look in a chest of drawers for two years, it gets me upset now, because I’ve never seen that side to my mum.

“So it’s just been very emotional but lovely,” Ms Norton said.