I’d have to go and find the links, but several accounts of women who were in those homes for unwed mothers indicate that nursing babies were given to lactating women who were not their mothers. One woman talked about nursing multiple babies, none were hers.
Times were truly different then ,, these young women really were shunned by society and although I’m sure that many wanted to keep their children that many if not most were pressured into agreeing to adoption ,, just as today most women who abort are pressured by family and partners .. These homes may have been state funded or partially supported but they were on a budget that I am sure was near impossible to meet ... I am also sure that because of the relatively small number of deaths over such a long period of time that they worked hard to provide decent medical care... This was rural ... like backwoods West Virginia rural ... BUT WITH LESS MONEY!
Time to get the best understanding we can from the documents and move on ,, this facility closed 53 years ago ,, even a novice nun in 1961 would be in her 70’s now, and the nuns that were running the facility in it’s heyday are all dead.
Not everything in life is pretty , no matter how hard you work at it... sometimes your best (their best) isn’t enough ... but you keep at it and do your best .. and that’s what they did.