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Baby survives - and meets his mother 39 years later

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Emma shawn
Baby survives - and meets his mother 39 years later

Melissa Oden was forced to have an abortion, but survived without her mother's knowledge. Now Melissa is an adult and has found her mother.


Melissa Auden knew from an early age that her parents had adopted her. "She is quoted in The Dream as saying: "Ron and Linda never hid that from me. But it didn't bother me. I had a very happy childhood with my sister Tami." At first, however, the American girl did not know why she was adopted. It wasn't until she was 14 that her adoptive mother revealed the whole truth to her - that Melissa's biological mother had tried to abort her and her survival was accidental - when her sister said in an interview: "At least my parents needed me.

 

Failed abortion in the eighth month

By then, the woman, now 42, already knew what her adoptive parents knew about adoption services. Melissa's mother had an abortion at 31 weeks, or eight months pregnant. At that time, doctors injected the pregnant woman with a substance believed to cause stillbirth. After the birth, Melissa's mother left the clinic thinking the operation was a "success." However, it was not. Melissa was still alive. A nurse spotted and rescued the barely alive baby from the "biological waste" and took her to the preemie station. There, Melissa was fed and transported to another hospital, where her adoptive parents took her in a few weeks later.

Finding her roots

After learning about her past, Melissa told the newspaper that she was initially distraught and completely exhausted." Melissa was very tired and exhausted." She told The Sun. However, a few years later, at the age of 19, she decided to find her biological parents. According to the American, the first clue led her to her father. She tried to contact him in 2007, 30 years after her birth, but quickly learned of his death. There was no exchange of information or even a meeting. There was still no sign of Melissa's mother.

Even in 2013, Melissa was contacted. She received a call from a woman who claimed to be a cousin of Melissa's biological mother. She knew about the attempted abortion and learned about it through Melissa's efforts to find her parents. She put Melissa in touch with her mother, Ruth, who revealed the whole truth to her daughter.

Forced to have an abortion by her mother

Ruth became pregnant with Melissa at the age of 19. She wanted to get pregnant, but her mother urged her to have an abortion at the clinic Abortion tablets in Dubai where she worked as a nurse. Unlike Ruth, her mother knew that Melissa had survived the surgery, but she hid it from her and tried to "throw the baby away." Ruth found out about all this in 2007, but did not dare to contact Melissa. So it was not until 2013, at the initiative of Ruth's cousin, that the first contact was made.

Initially, mother and daughter stayed in touch by phone and email and got to know each other very well. Their first face-to-face meeting took place in 2016. "Melissa says: "When we saw each other, we fell into each other's arms and held each other for what seemed like an eternity. "I couldn't even hug her," - her mother said at the time.
They still keep in touch and are now very close friends. "'There are still unanswered questions, but I know that the real victim of this abortion should have been me, but Ruth was also a victim. We both decided not to stay in the victim role. We are both willing to fight for ourselves. To live. To love. To forgive. And to give something back to the world."

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