Woman Adopted as a Newborn Meets Birth Parents After Almost 2 Decades: ‘They Chose My Family’

'With me in one arm and a stack of hopeful adoptive parent profiles in the other, they chose my family.'

Courtesy of Hannah Nichole

Hannah Jennings’s birth parents were young high schoolers when they had her, back in 1999. At a tender age themselves, they kept the pregnancy a secret. The teen parents did what they felt was best for their baby: placing her with adoptive parents, and hoping they’d give her the life she deserved.

Eighteen years later, Hannah was able to meet her birth parents, Megan and Brent, in two wonderful and heartfelt reunions. Hers was a “semi-open” adoption, and Hannah always knew she had not one, but two sets of parents.