Kate Snyderman, a 27-year-old woman who is the adopted daughter of Dr. Nancy Snyderman with the “Today” show, reuinited with her birth mother.
Dr. Snyderman said she adopted her daughter while working in Arkansas. She wrote on Today.com that she learned a 16-year-old girl was giving birth and put her child up for adoption
“That drive and seeing that newborn on June 30, 1986, would turn out to change the trajectory of my life forever,” she wrote, referring to the girl she adopted. “It continues to do so.”
She continued: “It was a lightning bolt, to say the least, and I asked for some time to think it through. I figured I had time—maybe two weeks?— to sort things out. But I didn’t have time. Turns out, my daughter was delivered 48 hours later and a quick call from the hospital about my decision prompted an impulsive and immediate ‘yes.’”
In another story, Kate Snyderman, who is getting a master’s degree in fine arts, wrote that she started looking for her biological mother when she was 25–or two years ago.
“I finally felt secure enough in myself that I believed I could handle what might be in store. I went on ancestry websites and tried to get registries and records offices to give me something, anything to start my search,” she wrote.
She ended up meeting her biological sister, Cheri, and her brother, Clint, as well as her birth mother, Cheryl Williams.
“She was very very nervous,” Snyderman said. “I think she was worried about rejection.”
They reunited over the summer and it was captured by the Today show, which will air this week. The program is part of a week of stories about adoptions.
“As I walked down to meet my birth mother for the first time, my stomach felt like a tangled mess of a knots. We both cried as we hugged, but as we started to talk, that knot eased,” wrote Kate. “For the first time in my life, in Cheryl’s smiling face, I could really see where I had come from.”
