Birthmom age

silliestbunny · August 2009

For those who've adopted or matched-

How old was your birthmom?

I read about trends of 25+ year old women/birthmoms. Has this been your experience? Just curious.

GLynn2009 · August 2009

Ours is 28.

FinallyMrs.G · August 2009

We haven't adopted yet but we are getting ready to enter the pool and go active and we were talking to our agency yesterday and the birthmom getting ready to pick a family is 38 years old with children.

kmkaull · August 2009

MayDayGirl · August 2009

our failed match was 16

BeachJenn · August 2009

Just turned 15 less than two weeks ago.

Amy720 · August 2009

Ours was 27.

lisanjay · August 2009

17

But I have several friends who have adopted and the bmoms of their children were in their 30's. I have one online friend that is a bmom and she was mid 40's when she placed.

Temp206787500007404 · August 2009

26 and 29

Temp206787500007404 · August 2009

I also read something last week that said a large number of failed matches (regionally -- not sure if this is true nationally) are actually teen moms -- often their parents are initially unsupportive of them parenting the baby, but once the baby is born they change their minds and want their daughters to parent.

517butterfly · August 2009

23 (this was her 3rd child--she is parenting the other two who are 7 and 3)

orange1414 · August 2009

On the flip side--When I was adopted as an infant (30 years ago) my birth mother was 16.

*Erin&Mike* · August 2009

Ours is 30.

hersheykiss · August 2009

I was 22 when K was born. Her brother that was adopted 2 yrs earlier, his BM was 13. I have a friend that used the same agency as me a few years earlier and she was 45.