{"id":231559,"date":"2020-09-27T09:21:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T14:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=231559"},"modified":"2020-09-25T23:28:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T04:28:57","slug":"open-adoption-baby-girl-today-beautiful-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/open-adoption-baby-girl-today-beautiful-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Years ago, she chose open adoption for her baby girl. Today, they have a beautiful relationship."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fifteen and pregnant, Marlys Monet kept the news to herself for seven months until she came home to find her parents waiting with a pregnancy test.\u00a0The positive test confirmed what she had been denying, but as she sobbed, her mother and father, though disappointed, vowed to care for her and the baby during the pregnancy. Together, they decided open adoption was best for everyone, and today, Monet has no regrets.<\/p>\n

“I was completely terrified,” she explained<\/a> after her child’s kicks forced her to accept that she was pregnant. “So many thoughts were running through my head, and I simply had no idea what to do. I just wanted it to all end. Depression and anxiety completely consumed me. I was paralyzed with fear.”<\/p>\n

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Merrin is officially 16! \u2022 I snapped her at midnight a tear filled message letting her know how proud I am of her. \u2022 This my friends is why I chose life. \u2022 She is 16. \u2022 I was 16 at exactly this moment in labor with a precious life. \u2022 From the moment I conceived her she was always a precious life. \u2022 I cannot imagine a world where she was not in it. \u2022 Yes evert year I cry on her birthday and I remember the hard, but you darn well better believe I remember all of the good. \u2022 So today would each of you help me in wishing my beautiful firstborn a Happy Sweet 16!!! \u2022 #adoption #birthmom #igaveherlife #shegaveherafuture #webothgaveherhope<\/a><\/p>\n

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