I received an e-mail from Ms. Inoue(fictitious) the other day as expressed hereunder. With her permission, I am introducing the content of this e-mail with my reply as it arouses opportunities for us to ponder over roles of infant homes. What do you think about this, folks?
Questions from Ms. Inoue)

Now I am trying to encourage myself to send this e-mail to you. When my daughter was born, my mother's dementia situation aggravated while I was preparing for my mother's nursing care procedures and so on. I might have been tired and I became depressed after 3 months from my daughter's birth. I became incapable of my child-rearing work at home. One health guidance nurse paid a regular visit to me at home. She thought that I was beyond my physical ability, and she judged that it's affecting for my baby too. So, my baby was taken to an infant-home. When I had to wait for a week until a bed and related staff members were procured/allocated there, my body and mind were truly almost beyond control. All I could remember is that I only cried out. People talked behind my back as if I wanted to be free, thus they kept saying how my baby was so pitiful of this. It's so hard to explain to you by e-mails, but my question is....Are mothers asking help of infant-homes loafing away over the duty of raising their children? Or, are they causing their children pitiful?

My reply to her e-mail:

Thank you for your comments. Yes, it sometimes happens and we get hurt by words of thoughtless people when it especially comes to matters of raising children. When in hardship, it takes an additional encouragement when we ask for help of others efficiently. Inoue-san, in your case, however, I believe your decision of asking help of an infant-home, under the circumstances, was a right choice as a mother.

In my case, I got into a bad physical health for some time after birth of my children. Luckily since there was my mother around, I had her help with no anxiety. However, unless I had my mother available, I had no choice but to ask the help of an infant-home for my children..(I was divorced then)...In fact, in my mind, it's true that I had some sort of inner resistance over infant homes or child-care facilities, which was gloomy and negative, I thought....

Through my own activities of Gruun, for now, I feel like changing the fixed images of infant homes and/or child-care facilities and their roles. If any of mothers unfortunately have no desire to raise their kids ...or some other situations in which mothers are forced not to able to raise their children for whatever reasons, then my thought goes to.....we may have no choice but to send those children to the hands of legal foster child-parents matching care ....In Inoue-san's case...like temporary difficulties in raising children, then, we can borrow the help of those homes or foster parents. I would like to see the future happen in this way.

I can sense your (Inoue-san's) daughter is growing uninhibitedly being loved by people. She is such an adorable daughter. Thank you so much for your report.