10 MARCH 1959  Our first child, Susan Mary Lancaster, was born at St. John's Hospital. I remember Joyce being taken away by ambulance.  In those days, husbands weren't allowed to be with their wives during the birth, so Joyce had to endure the pain and trauma of all the stages leading up to a first birth alone, and it must have been a terrifying experience!  Another rule in those days was that the mother and baby couldn't leave hospital until the cord came off.  So we were uncertain whether we would be able to attend the marriage of my sister Jean and Melvyn Sach, which took place about two weeks after the birth of Susan.  But we did make it in the end!