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Want help finding your birth parents? Call Origins Genealogy at 801-500-0900.
Read our article: originsintl.com/does-my-birth-mother-want-me-to-fi…
Every adult adoptee, at least those from a closed adoption, dream about reuniting with their birth mom.
Origins Genealogy’s co-founder, Jenny Wallentine, was herself an adoptee from a closed adoption.
Like every adoptee, Jenny wondered whether her biological mother would want to meet her or not. Naturally, she was afraid of rejection, but forged ahead to locate her birth mom.
This is her story.
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:46 - Jenny's story
2:12 - Start of finding my birth mother
5:07 - Located my birth mother
6:27 - First phone call
8:20 - She had kept me a secret
8:58 - She didn't know whether I was a boy or girl
10:51 - Waiting for the second call
12:18 - The second phone call
16:21 - Meeting mom in person
17:12 - Realizations after meeting her
18:12 - Final words
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Date of upload: Oct 24, 2021 ^^
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
I was born in a Catholic Orphanage for Unwed Mothers ... that was in the mid 50s. I recently took a DNA Test ... have found out I have 13 brothers and sister out there and counting. 3 on my birth-mothers side (I talk regularly with them) and 10 on birth-fathers side (and as I said and counting) > talked with 2 of them. He had 10 kids with 8 women over a 35-year period. Have talked with birth mothers' brother and sister ... several cousins and one who knew my grandmother on birthfathers' side when she was a little girl.
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I Found my lovely mum after 54 years she had always wanted me back and was blown away when I found her we have a beautiful relationship now
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My daughter was adopted from China and I would be so thrilled, if by some miracle, she could find her bio family.
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Aw your adopted mom sounds like such an amazing person. I’m sure if she was here she’d be so proud of the person you’ve become
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The beauty of finding the love ❤️ of two moms in a lifetime is a treasure to behold. So happy you received and gave joy to your birth mom. Sharing your story will help someone.
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Met my birth mom after 29 years this summer. Now she is coming to spend Christmas with my family and I.
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Thanks for your story. I am a birth mom. My son's adoption was open, and he always knew he was wanted and loved by me. Unfortunately he had a fatal accident when he was 26, and I was never able to reconnect with him. I did get a leter from him when he was 18 that I cherish to this day. He addressed it to "mom". I was so thankful he felt that way. I met many of his friends at his memorial, and he was a very special person. I feel blessed to have given birth to such an incredible, wonderful, memorable human!
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Yours is a touching story. I wept along with you because I know a little of what you experienced.
In 1966 I gave birth to a girl baby who was privately adopted by a childless couple. I thought & wondered about her every single day! Nearing what would be her 16th birthday, I visited a psychic who told me someone would be looking for me through a person named Barbara. I didn't know any Barbara's at the time but when I told my mother about it she said "wasn't the doctor who delivered the child named Barbara?" OMG! I immediately wrote a letter to Dr. Barbara F asking her to release my information to the girl I had given up in case she inquired. I also enclosed a letter to the girl.
On a Wednesday evening, a couple of years later, my mother called me & said you'd better sit down. I IMMEDIATELY knew what transpired! Three days later, at my parent's house, I met my beautiful daughter!
For the past 40 years now I have had the privilege of knowing & enjoying the friendship of my first girl child. ❤
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i originally got the information that i needed was thru Bastardnation. thru a court intermediary in Mich. i had lost my adoptive mom. i found by the time i found my birth family, my birth mom had passed. the first thing i learned was she named me. i walked around for a month saying my birth name over and over. i wasn't a dumpster baby, she loved me, i had a name. a name! The other things would come later. such my 9 brothers and sisters after me. i have met many of them. i was accepted and acknowledged. there were hardships in both sides of the family. no one gets adopted because everyone is having a great time. i feel blessed
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Jenny, what a beautiful story! You all - your biological Mom, your parents who raised you- so much LOVE! The absolute Unselfish act your adoptive Mom did telling you - find your Mom- she didn’t want you to suffer being without a Mom. Great story - thank you,
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I was 54 when I found my birth mom. My parents had passed nearly 20 years prior. I found her through DNA. Sadly we met just before COVID, then 2021 she was killed in an automobile accident. We never got to really know each other, we met and then she visited my home just before Christmas. My half sister, 14 months younger, told me mom always had my birthday marked on her calendars and she about 12 years old before she was told I was put up for adoption at birth. She had been sent to a girl home to have me, but her sisters knew she had a girl. I love hearing other stories.
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My Brother I didn’t know I had found me after 64 years
He was adopted to a military family and grew up in the US
Me in Germany the best thing ever in my life the Day he came in my Life
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You are so lucky sweetie!
My state recently allowed us (adoptees) to get our original birth cert. That was neet to see. (No known father). So i pray she was not assaulted.
With that said, being adopted from the catholic charities. i had the catholic charities as a liasson. They contacted my biologic moms brother, who relayed to her that i wrote. The response back was very sweet. She was glad i was okay. But did not want contact because it was the most traumatic thing in her life. I am okay with that. I was afraid of opening up a "closet of dead skeletons" or "opening a can of worms on her".
I had a full birth name. Probably named by the nuns.
Like you i never wanted to hurt either families.
God created both families. The one could not conceive the other was put here to help that family out.
It is all good. 🥰
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I was 48 when I found my birth mother.
She was so angry and upset.
She accused me of trying to destroy her family.
I said, huh??
I had no clue she’s been married to her husband of 56yrs and had grown children and grandchildren.
I was so puzzled by her anger, I literally became emotionally numb.
I asked her who my dad was, she said that was her pass life and he’s probably dead.
SMH.
I’m now 54 and have not one 1 family member.
So freakin depressing..
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Wow! What an awesome and loving testimony. I’m so happy for you. I am not adopted. My b mom died of cancer very early in my life. I was 4, she was just 29. I’m now 74 and still miss her and think about her a lot. So thank you for your story. It really touched me.
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Hello, your story is amazing ! My mom passed away 2 years ago with Covid , and I had been searching for my sister, who was given up in the late 50s, and I promised her I would find her, but keep running into brick walls ! Please help 😢
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When you grow a baby inside of you, I imagine you will love that baby forever even if you have to give him/her up. I have 2 kids of my own and I cannot imagine the pain and the bravery it would take to place them for adoption. This story had me crying. I’m glad you and your mom found each other!
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The word Love takes on a depth that I cannot even begin to comprehend.
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Thank you for sharing your beautiful story with us. I am a bith mother of a adopted daughter. My daughter found me in March of 2020. We since have formed a wonderful friendship and relationship.
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@winonabannon8556
8 months ago
I think many women would keep their babies if people were more supportive and nice to her. I had a daughter out of wedlock in 1982. Several people said some horrible, hurtful things to me. I was fortunate to have the means to support her and there was no way that I was going to give her up. She is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I have no regrets at all.
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