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DG: Can you tell me more? You were pregnant at this time. Can you tell me more about --

FH: I was pregnant. It was so hot, I just wore a smock, you don't care how you look. [Laughs] But we had a new son...

DG: What was it like -- what were the medical facilities for you?

FH: Oh, they were still working on the clinic, and we had a, I had the baby on the army cot. Oh, I don't know. We went... it started in the middle of the night, and we called the army truck and we were stopped on the way to the hospital or the clinic by police wondering where we were going. But rushed to the clinic there.

DG: So you had your baby outside of the camp?

FH: No, right in the camp.

DG: In the camp? Where was the...

FH: It was the temporary hospital at that time.

DG: Why did you have to ride in a vehicle?

FH: What?

DG: You had to ride in a army truck?

FH: Army truck, uh-huh.

DG: To get to the clinic?

FH: Uh-huh.

DG: But inside.

FH: Midnight.

DG: You were still in the camp.

FH: Then you're still in the camp, yeah, but we were stopped, wondering what, where we were going, even if it was an army truck.

DG: And this was your third child, so how did this delivery compare to your other two, now that you were in the camp?

FH: I was the first one that had a baby in the camp in our block. But there were other, when I went to the clinic once I was surprised there were a lot more. Bainbridge had one whole block. Plus some newlyweds, they used to call it "Honeymoon" because we were the last group to go into, to Hunt, when we moved to Hunt. But Leonard was born in Manzanar.

DG: And there were other women that were pregnant as well? Did you develop friendships with any or remember going to...

FH: No, no. There were two other Bainbridge girls who were pregnant, but later than me. But we didn't make too many -- I didn't -- friends because I was mostly in our own block because children are there, and we all ate in the same mess hall. I stayed mostly in my block.

DG: And how did you pass the day? What did you do every day in and day out?

FH: Well, since we had a lot of babysitters, I learned to knit and crochet and did a lot of handcrafts, 'cause we didn't need to cook. And my husband was home because I was pregnant, so he helped me a lot. Because we have no running water... he did all the washing, took care of the kids, and helped me. I was lucky.

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