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Eight (Or Four) Babies Lost at Woodstock
The Woodstock baby would be forty years old next weekend if she or he were real. But there’s a much sadder story of kids who won’t be forty years old in 2009.
The babies lost at Woodstock.
Because a group of women who decided to camp out in a muddy field in the middle of Bethel, NY to hear what some call the greatest concert in the history of the world (although I can tell you the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young BACK on the Woodstock site in 2007 officially rocked as well) were stuck in that field when they lost their babies.
Depending on the accounts, four to eight women miscarried on Max Yasgur’s farm. The higher number comes from Dr. William Abruzzi, the official medical director for the concert, who is known for writing extremely detailed notes.
Abruzzi reports the miscarriages were in the medical tent – meaning the women didn’t make it to the local hospital (there were at least four in various directions delivering babies in the rural area at that time – back before obstetrical care was considered a specialty). Chances are, they never would have made it – traffic in and out of the site was at a standstill. And conditions were hardly conducive to a woman grieving the loss of a child – officials were hard at work focusing on keeping LSD out of the water supply and keeping half a million people fed.
The good news? Abruzzi had eighteen doctors, thirty-six nurses and twenty-seven medical assistants helping him handle not just the drug overdoses, but the miscarriages too. The women weren’t alone, but I wonder if this is a story they still tell.
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