are you adopted?

[sparkles2307]

I was adopted at 11 days old. Just met my bio parents this year at 27. Thought my bio dad was dead for 15 years and found out that not only was he alive but that he wanted to be in my life

Bio mom and I have always had open communication I just never got up the gumption to actually go meet her till this summer. And luck of luck, we were passing thru the town my bio dad lives in on Father's Day which made it doubly awesome. I fit right in with them, looks, mannerisms, its wonderful.

 

[Godsgrl]

did you know that Steve Jobs was adopted? I'm so happy his mom chose life for him, even though it was with another family.

 

[runsw/scissors]

I am also a birth mother. I was 27 when my daughter was born, her real mother was present when she was born.

As far as people,

People are awful at times!!!

When I was registering at the hospital before my DD's birth, her mother drove me there and was with me, and as I asked the registration lady about whether or not she could have a baby band (thus allowing her to visit her daughter without my involvement) the stupid woman looked me right in the eye and asked "what kind of mother are you to do that?" Bless my DD's mother who stepped up and ripped her a new one! I wanted to die... just curl up and die.

Last I heard they were doing fine. I am so glad I decided to place for adoption, I've never regretted it!

 

[goobhen]

epona, I am having issues posting, but I am giving you hugs & a smile!

:
Theresa

 

[debilorrah]

If I didn't look so much like my mother, I would swear I was adopted. Two people couldn't be more polar opposites than we are. Of course I never did know my biological father..... That may be it....

 

[oceanwidedesigns]

My husband, his brother, and most of his cousins were all adopted. Most were through crisis pregnancy centers or foster adoptions. My husband wants to know nothing about the details of his adoption and gets upset if I accidentally leak anything (his mom told me the very little she knew so that the story wouldn't die with her.) His brother has reconnected with two of his birth brothers, but they haven't found the rest of their siblings... they believe there could be as many as 10 others out there... long story.

Even before I knew my husband, I knew that if I was to have kids I wanted to adopt. Then later it was reinforced by the fact that I have an auto-immune disease which would get more severe with pregnancy and have a high risk of miscarriage. At the moment we don't want kids anytime soon, we have no idea when... we have too much fun just the two of us & with his career and my self employment... we barely have time for the chickens! Someday

 

[arabianequine]

I was in and out of foster homes and group homes for teens since I was 7 years old. I got really defiant as a teen and kept running away to my mom's....pretty much stayed with her or on my own at the age of 13. I was finally emancipated at the age of 16. I never would let myself be adopted and always have stayed in contact with my mother. Till this day all we really have is each other.....as far as family on my mother or fathers side.

 

[Animalian]

I was... half adopted? My bio-daddy was a sperm donor!

 

[BHep]

My Bio father died when I was 6, my mom remarried and I was adopted by my "dad".

I have 3 BEAUTIFUL children that I adopted. They were my foster children. I have just been re certified to foster again.

 

[babyrnlc]

We've adopted 3 girls. The first was 3 when we started fostering her. 18 months later at 4 1/2 we adopted her. Then in 2010 we adopted two girls from Russia. They were 10 and 12.

My daughters birth mom has access to my Facebook for pictures and has my number. We have let her talk to my daughter any time she calls. She hasn't called in at least a year.

My oldest from Russia talks with her sister in Russia and she has a sister that was adopted by a family in Michigan. She talks with her too.