"Mother are you anxious?, father are you gracious?"

Do you know what time you were born? Or how much you weighed?
I would imagine you do.
I never did until yesterday.
I had my meeting at Northants social services with a lovely old dear. It was an illuminating, fascinating & overwhelming experience.
Prior to yesterday the only knowledge I had of my birth & my birth parents was what was on my original birth certificate. Which really isn't a lot.
I had always speculated as to why I was put up for adoption & though I still don't know for sure, I have a much better idea now & I can also rule out a lot of the theories that I held.

So I found out yesterday that...
I was born at 3.45pm
I weighed 7lbs 12oz
My mother (whose name I've always known) was 28 years old at the time (making her 63 now)
She was 5ft tall with brown hair & grey eyes (Guess who else has brown hair & grey eyes!)
She was born in Ireland, being 1 of 6 children
Her hobbies were knitting, sewing, dancing & swimming.
She was a hairdresser & married at 18.
At the time of her pregnancy with me she was separated from her husband who was NOT my father.
Her parents & family were not aware of the pregnancy.
She made the decision to have her baby adopted to give me 2 parents & a settled home life.
My birth mother & her husband had 4 children at the time of my birth, a girl of 6 & boys of 8,5 & 18 months. So there's 4 sibelings.

My father is described as the putative father (which means "generally regarded as such").
He was 25 at the time, married but separated from his wife with whom he had 2 children, so there's another 2 sibelings.
he was 5ft 6in tall, medium build with fair hair & blue eyes.
As paternity was not legally established, no further information can be given out about the putative father (including his name).

The only bit that seems quite strange to me is that in 1970, after I was born & given up, my birth mother was known to have moved to Bradford where she was co-habiting with my "putative" father & 2 of her children.

So while that not mean much to anybody reading it, this information has been a revelation to me. It's incredible to think that I've gained at least (who knows what's happened since 1970) 6 sibelings overnight.

I really don't know what I'm going to do next &, as yet, I'm really not sure how to articulate how I feel about this. As I said at the start, it's all very overwhelming.