Search for Birth Mother | Adopted Daughter Meets Mom

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[@K8theGR8theGIGGLER]

My mother did this and found her birth mother after 50+ years!!! She was raised an only child and now has three siblings and a lovely mother. So amazing!!!

[@BigRed2]

God bless your grandmother for not aborting or you wouldn’t be alive or your mother

[@user-go1ut1gz4n]

As a birth mom - I did love my child enough to give them away to have something better than what I could give that child. I loved them enough to tell myself the truth.

[@violettaazul]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It makes you brave in my book. Giving up your child to give them a better life Is also an act of love.

[@Coach.Kallista]

@@violettaazul Thank you. It's been a journey, as the years have become decades.

[@user-go1ut1gz4n]

@@elenas9857 You did what worked for you - I did what worked for me. Don't judge me. You have no idea how my life unfolded or what issues I was dealing with or have had to deal with enroute.

[@XxSuicidalNinjaxX]

@@Coach.KallistaI can’t imagine being decades in. My son is 2.5 and it has taken me a hell of a fight to even make it this far. 😅 I wish people would stop saying things like “she didn’t want me” because the pain of placing a child is absolutely unlike anything else most will ever experience. It’s no small feat to give birth and watch your newborn leave with someone else.

[@thetndixie]

Found my birth parents who actually got married shortly after giving me up for adoption. Best day of my life❤️ We celebrated 40 years of knowing each other this past Valentine's day which is the day I finally was able to talk to them on the phone for the first time ❤️

[@onThisJourney]

Those giant teeth gave her a beautiful smile. God is good, all the time 🙌❤

[@showbrasil1995]

And all the time God is good!

[@VioletJoy]

I'm confused. I don't see what "God" did here. Allowed Teresa to grow up feeling "not good enough", made it difficult for mother and daughter to find each other, but cared enough for her to have been named the same by both parents? 🤷‍♀️

[@celiachimarasllan9597]

@@VioletJoy THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! God AIN'T SHIT ANF AIN'T REAL! If he were he would be quite the asshole! I HATE IT when people keep on saying good is good when he does not even exist 😠

[@judybrown1810]

This is one that lit up a room

[@xjcrossx]

Looks like her adoptive family did well though. She seems like such a good person, so sweet!

[@shereebee5768]

oh geez she looks like her mum in that school year book. wow!

[@judyberends4586]

Sheree Bee She sure did. Wow that's awesome.

[@amyl6703]

I am searching for my birth mother maybe one day I'll be lucky enough

[@Blue-bi8fi]

Amy J Knox I wish you all the luck

[@jofiouris]

good luck in your search

[@willtrojan8854]

Good luck

[@tommoclement]

I was adopted Once I met my birth Mother I understood. " WHY she gave me up.' She had a very hard life. As, did the kids she already had. I know she married a nasty man.even my Siblings told me that..She finally left hm.......Then the two kids became. What was known as ' Latch door key kids.' One son stayed with Father, Who never looked after him..His care was left to Father's sister.....Who apparently Never had Kids & was not ready for such responsibility. My point is....I was so very Lucky to have be adopted by a lovely couple.

[@angelabarff1548]

OPINIONS ARE LIKE ASSHOLES : EVERYONE'S GOT ONE ! ADOPTION IS A LIFETIME OF NOTHING BUT LIES, FOR PROFIT.

[@marilynncanale7828]

Jo O Reilly 🤟

[@BigRed2]

Randy Boone I find it funny when parents who give up their kids want to later in life be a parent to them, it’s honestly cruel to the adoptive parents, i understand why some adoptive kids want to find their real parents because we are all immature in life at one point or another

[@annmcdonald7713]

@@BigRed2 you think an adoptee wants to find their birth parents because they are immature? You are insane

[@nancywalker8228]

@@angelabarff1548 e

[@lemonspice4368]

She has such a beautiful smile

[@shannonwright8270]

I'm so glad you got to meet your biological mother. I was also adopted and met my birth mom in 2000 and also my birth father plus my young brother. I had a daughter in 04 and gave her up but the parents who adopted her couldn't have kids. I was able to meet my girl and her dad but her mom passed away in 2016. I met my girl in 2017.

[@melanieramirez1205]

When the birth mother and daughter were talking it broke my heart and I started crying cuz it’s cute and sad

[@MO-cu9uc]

She looks SO MUCH like her birth mother in those pictures

[@mariagradilla296]

Amazing and the love when the mom touched her heart ❤️

[@meadowheitz4029]

OMG I'm bawling my eyes out! Please I wanna see the part where Teresa finally meets her birth mother!!!!

[@blancabulgrin5560]

So do I ! This was a clif hanger ,such a beautiful lady her mom too I hope there's a continuation !

[@kairiandpapou]

From the day I was born every week my 16 year old birth mother wrote me letters about how much she loved and missed me. My parents kept my adoption open and very known to me and my brother( he is Laotian we are all white haha) as well. My mother let me know how much they both loved me. My birth father was sent off to the navy. His parents cut him off from my birth and everything, but he found me and now we camp almost every summer. I have a close relationship with both my birth parents. I couldn’t be happier to have so many people who love me.

[@99iwaena]

Awesome story! Happy for Teresa to search out for her biological mother and she found her!

[@jeangough8053]

Beautiful lady with a beautiful smile

[@Sparkl4860]

I feel it is the most selfless thing to give up a child. They want better for their child.

[@merryhunt9153]

No wonder how good people have it, they always find something to be unhappy about.

[@bobbarca2411]

Props to all adopted ppl who searching for their parents that strength I would not ever have

[@awelek4376]

I want to look like her. She looks pretty when she talks, when she smiles and her teeth is so good 😁

[@juliaharvie7426]

You are who you are meant to be my dear,god bless

[@rodneymarchisella9913]

Sometimes a situation like this can turn to worse then more good

[@awelek4376]

I'm crying over this phone conversation ❤❤❤

[@jitaamesuluma9730]

Yeah, we often feel like her... But I healed myself

[@LauraScottBell]

Don't leave me hanging when I'm crying my eyes out!!! Post the next part!!!

[@hazeleyezluv]

I teared up! 😂

[@lildeegurrl]

Irene that link leads to this video

[@reimagine207]

Laura Scott Bell 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍🏼

[@carolpins5490]

Laura Scott Bell

[@blolly9938]

Thank you, RapidDecisions, this link worked!

[@sapphicalix]

I found my parents when I was 17. And my 5 siblings, now I have 6 and 3 step brothers plus my adoptive brother! I searched for my family my whole life, since I knew what adoption meant. I would skip lunch every day in school and go to the computer lab or the library and just search and search, with nothing to go off of. Finally I got I social worker at 17 who contacted the social worker who did my adoption and she agreed to give me my records if my parents agreed, since I was still a minor. They did, they wanted to meet me, and we’ve been part of each other’s lives since. I wish I could have found them sooner, or better yet had never been adopted, but at least I have them now.

[@jeffreywaltiere4830]

I love your spirit..but you made me cry..happy tears for you...

[@atulasitani7246]

😥 a mothers love is forever 💗

[@jeneland3739]

Wow I love the story, please post the continuation of the story very touching.

[@iLitAfuseiCantStop]

anna Thank you so much. I'd never have found that on my own.

[@janeseltzer6016]

Damn does not work anymore

[@cluvsonj]

Jane it does. I clicked on it and it worked.

[@MA-ts9qt]

@@cluvsonjplease share the link with me, I can’t find it either😢

[@annazaman9657]

OMG. She's a carbon copy of her mom

[@freakonaleash9601]

They look just alike 😭😭😭😭😭❤❤❤

[@aliciaaldarondo4535]

Wow. Her mother is so beautiful lady. Looks so much like her when young.

[@theblackpearl7035]

My God she looks so much like her birth mum

[@thereseward7852]

Brave you are so brave- hooray for your journey!

[@inlovingmemoryofpapagonie283]

shes beautiful

[@hiddenblessingsbyjudylynn7825]

I got a story for yall I was adopted my whole life thought my birth mom sold me. I found my birth family and found out my brother and I had been kidnapped

[@9786blondie]

Omg....Tell me this ends ok.....

[@drtashemahaynes]

This is amazing! I m looking for my dads birth mom. She gave him up when he was two! She even named him... The adoption records are sealed and it has been dead end after dead end.

[@virtuious901]

Maybe go on ancestry and find a relative that way.

[@brankamaksimovic6380]

She is beautiful

[@lindatinsley585]

Great story looking for my daughter 20 years you give me hope

[@queenoftheroses8905]

What a beauty...

[@BRITTWOODNESHIE]

There goes those tears.

[@polgara1573]

im an Aussie and in 1971 i was forced by my parents to give my baby girl up i found her when she was 20 but my story does not have a happy ending but i hope that this ladies does

[@virtuious901]

Thank you so much. I found my mother in 1994 in Michigan. I just happen to call the right person and she left my birthmother's name at the bottom of my cut-out records. I did not realize there was a system to check if your mom is looking for you. Could you share that site with those that are looking? You take the chance of more rejection but you have to take the chance anyway! I am putting this on my adoption blog for sure! I am so happy for you two!

[@AnaMaria-ww4iy]

I’m literally crying 😭😭

[@bass13mary]

I wasn’t adopted but I never felt loved or wanted in my family. My mother was a deeply wounded rejected by her mother. She did it to us as well except for my youngest sister.

[@kathleen7849]

Break the cycle when you have your own children. x

[@68air]

Dang if this doesn't make you cry......

[@trkn5681]

I met my Mom for the first time in 50 years. She was in a nursing home. I walked up to her and she hit me on side of my head with her cane and told me to help find her dentures. :(

[@eliudgarcia-rosado1290]

Trkn56. omg ease tell me more .i lobe this story

[@dianabeurman9937]

Trkn56 sorry

[@hedydepner1346]

Trkn56 8

[@kathleen7849]

I know that's not meant to be funny, but sometimes you have to laugh at life.

[@floridagirl386]

@@kathleen7849 life is hilarious @ times. Screw it...go with the flow🌹

[@CharlotteFairchild]

I wish this had been possible many years before.

[@joywilliamsonmassey9219]

Wow .I would love for her.im happy .Gave me more hope to keep looking for my sybiloms.thank you

[@susiewelchman8658]

God knows you by name🌹xxxxxspecial treasure!❤️🦋

[@christinepeniaranda8484]

Im crying with the mama

[@MegaDeansy]

I love her 'Giant teeth', she's beautiful !

[@kmo3811]

Unless their is some question of safety, I feel adoptees should be able to know from who and where they come if they choose. How heartbreaking to spend a life wondering and not having answers. Good luck to all adoptees who seek answers.

[@elliesouza717]

Not all bio families want any interaction

[@marykate905]

The girl who got adapted looks like my old 2nd grade teacher

[@944clogue]

I am a Catholic Charities baby and my both adopted parents died 2017, every adopted child, wants to know who we look like, I was luved, and I luved. Every one of us wants to know why we were given up. But thank God I was loved. All I wish to know is my health history and who I look like?

[@deniselorenc2379]

I am all teared up. Can't type.

[@xkrollx]

I cried..

[@bobbyfahlgren8609]

My mother gave her baby up . She was 19 . Her daughter was nothing but Cruel to my mother. We lost out mother to cancer in 94 . My mother had a hard life. Non the less . I wish she could have retired and had some peace for a while.

[@franphipps2723]

This story is so close to my own search and turns out so very happily. I will say had my birth family say the wanted no contact I would of been okay with that. By this time after 27 years of searching I was ready to hear anything and will to just ask for medical records. My heart goes out to all the happy and sad endings in these searches.

[@my_journey-eg2vp]

omg!!!!!! love it!! im crying next part!!

[@Free-bt6gn]

There are reasons why people give their children up for adoption and they're rarely good. I'm adopted and I completely understand the curiosity of wanting to know where we came from, who we look like, and getting the answers to all the question that we've struggled with our whole lives. That said, please be prepared for learning some difficult realities. Yes, you can find your parents and or family members and siblings but rarely do these things go beyond the initial meeting. I've got double digit siblings by the same two parents and several took very different paths in life. Just be cautious, meet them on neutral ground and don't share too much about your life until you know who you're dealing with.

[@melissaa.7556]

Thank you for that but everyonez story is different.some people just take it upon themselves they want a kid and dont care about otherz involved or the reason their doing it.Its usually the adopted person that goes looking.not the other way around.If i had put a child up all i would want to know is if they had a good life.Seen enough of my friends and family die so if they had a good life.i would need to know nothing else.Good hunting to you.

[@relaxandrefocuswithmegan]

It's too bad not all reunions are great like this.

[@tinadifabio338]

This was a wonderful story, and the slideshow was beautiful.......but u never mentioned your parents, and how they were involved. I hope that they were a part of your journey as well.❤❤❤

[@peterfindsyourfamily]

love this story. hope I can help someone find their biological family

[@arispemissy5500]

It does not hurt her to get to know her biological mom and have a relationship with her now that she's grown.Its her choice and who are we to object Her mom had her reasons she gave her up to give her a life she couldn't give her.I wish them the best so happy for them.

[@viv_yin]

I cried at 7:08

[@datgidigirls6208]

Does the birth mom always have camera rolling when she is receiving calls?

[@cluvsonj]

They knew who the birth mom was and some how had some other family member film this wthout telling her the reason it was being filmed.

[@RafaelMarcF22]

@@cluvsonj Nah. They were like "hey you let us do this story, and we give you some old candy to suck on".

[@madreep]

A mother who chooses adoption makes that choice out of love. She loves her child more than she loves herself. I know that my birth mother loved me. I also know that she wasn't capable of raising a child. My mother had a hard life that ended when she was only 29 years old when she was murdered. I have met my biological family and it's easy to see why my mom lived the life she did and I feel blessed to have not grown up with those people. Could I make the choice my mother did? No. I'm not strong enough to make that choice, even if it was best for my child. I'm selfish and want him with me. It's not for him, it's for me.

[@mikey65dean]

All States should do that

[@teresahacket7767]

Oh for heavens sake...so cute

[@noneyabusiness9441]

She looks just like her mama

[@MsJinkerson]

I am glad my mother and I never speak

[@marygunn5192]

Would be great if all states opened info for adoptees and birth parents. State of Alaska offices won't even answer letters of inquiry.

[@noneyabusiness9441]

Why didn’t you finish it? I wanted to see the reunion and now it’s not showing it.

[@jlnriddick]

Geesh... I have to imagine that some of those birth Mom's listed on the birth certificates had no idea that one day their info would be made available to the child they gave up. This story worked out so well for Mom and daughter, but surely that didn't happen in every case. Seems it could be heartbreaking for some for any number of reasons.

[@dorothylarmore7150]

I only wish Vermont and new Hampshire would follow. i know i got an older sister who was born in Vermont and given up. I also know i have a twin sister who's been looking for me. I eagerly await for the day my missing half and i are together again.

[@khazms]

5:45 I been movin' calm, don't start no trouble with me. I hold back, sometimes I won't, yuh

[@indiamitchell93]

She is a really good looking lady

[@ikoikjji5548]

Where is the rest of the videi

[@BRITTWOODNESHIE]

Where's the other part where her and her mom meets?

[@irenelee2605]

The other part m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIrFnX6tqrJ9mpo&ebc=ANyPxKoBEMKocLZ1aUu7CLU-BxwJ_JIsJeE8icPVCTVbuuWqDPJUmRk2E6luoy6HtJPGo-kJfPTyonSBvFoACmWJ-2vhBoqoLA&time_continue=449

[@TwistedSecrets777]

that is not the other part its the same video!!

[@stephaniezimbalist3757]

@Ta-Kuan Thanks for the link!

[@aliray1868]

Very happy story!!!! Very much alike... kinda sweet drama queens.

[@enriquecruz3855]

Yes please do another video

[@xFaelyn]

I'm adopted but i've never meet my birth mother i know her name what she looks like but i've never been able to see her face to face my mom says she lives on the streets but i dont really care i want to meet her it would mean the world to me to meet her. Constantly I think what it would be like to be able to hug her for the first time.The same for my birth father i dont even know his name i dont know where he his or who he is but i need to know i've never had a father not even in the house im in now.all I know about him is that he is a Fire Fighter and that he WAS in the military.The best Days of my life are still to come

[@joekirkwood]

// MSPZeabra // I'm adopted, never knew my father, I have an older sister that I have never met. but she knows of me threw mid West adoptions. She has declined contact. She is 9 yrs older than me. My mother has been homeless my whole life as well. She is an alcoholic.

[@cathrose4879]

I hope Massachusetts will someday open adoption records. Right now we have to have a “good reason” do get access to our original birth certificates. It’s so unfair.

[@mirzasuttles7298]

Omg when she said my daughter 😭

[@mino3d1]

hahaha I love her 80`s theenage picture it resamble mine ahhhh,,,,,

[@commonscentsmom]

Does anyone know which states will give copies of our original birth certificates?

[@robertjohn4232]

Wheres the rest of it?? Is there a part 2 or something??

[@dalet9207]

Many, many parents who gave children for adoption should be made aware that t”giving away” is not necessarily a good way to to describe this.

[@felixalmeida481]

How do I find the sequel to this?

[@osobel12]

Is there a part2? I thought it would show the actual meeting. WTH?

[@MiracleFound]

My husband found his birth parents. His birth mother wanted him, she was not able to take care of him.

[@1Nida]

I can't find part 2! Does anyone have a link?

[@irinasiberia54]

@Ta-Kuan Fuan many thanks!

[@barbarakennedy7956]

Need the rest of the story.

[@irinasiberia54]

why did mother leave her? What did she say? Beautiful. rich woman .... They look like sisters with a daughter.

[@zeldanah9579]

Irina Siberia you can watch part 2 here - abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/emotional-reunion-mother-daughter-adoption-part-30692998

[@MysticPrairie]

Wait.... noooooo, where is the reunion? My heart is way to invested not to see it! Lol

[@Horses4life1001]

So where is the meeting as the title says?

[@cluvsonj]

abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/emotional-reunion-mother-daughter-adoption-part-30692998

[@rosiegirl4751]

Not all stories are happy! I have an adopted son..neither birth parents wanted him...and he doesn't know that! He never wanted to search for them..He accepted that me and his dad are his parents...period! He seems to be well rounded when it comes to adoption..he is a great kid..who is now 34!

[@zeldanah9579]

Rosie Girl , unless thoseparents told you to your face that they didn’t want him, you can’t believe it. I have watched enough of these adoption stories to know it was common practice to say the bio parents didn’t want the child, saying the mother was an addict etc, not always true. My question to you is if your son told you he is considering searching for his bio parents, would you be ok with that? If you hesitated for a moment when you read that question, then maybe you have been giving him signals (subconsciously) that you can’t handle him searching. In which case, he may hold off searching not to upset you. Are you afraid he will not love you? If so, then you need to know your relationship will not change ,his feelings will not change. We as humans are capable of loving a lot of people, we don’t have to love someone less in order to start loving someone new (Eg you don’t love your child less when you recieve a grandchild).. Maybe consider having a think about your own feelings in all this, then consider talking to him and let him know you support him in searching for his bio parents if he chooses to. Give him a clear answer.

[@ikoikjji5548]

Please post the second half

[@cdnspader]

It's been posted many times. It's good to skim through the posts. abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/emotional-reunion-mother-daughter-adoption-part-30692998