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For all these years, when she thought her newborn baby died a quarter of an hour after birth, her child was actually alive and well.
by Suruthi Srikumar
Many families end up reuniting with their biological child after being separated for many years. In most cases, the birth parents make the decision to abandon their newborn baby so that it can be adopted by a loving family. But in the case of Tina Bejarano, from Los Banos, Calif., The story is quite different.
In 1989, when she was only 17 at the time, the young woman gave birth to a baby girl, as she says in an interview with KMPH. She indicates that her mother had forbidden her to keep her child. A few minutes after giving birth, the newborn is taken away by the nursing staff. This is the last time Tina will see her baby girl. "The next day, (my mother) comes back to tell me: the baby died 15 minutes after it was born. He never arrived. He was sick", Tina said.
The young woman then fell into depression for many years. Her partner, who is not the biological father of her child and whom she met shortly after the tragedy, also mourned the loss of her daughter with her. Together for 29 years, the couple still had a thought for the little girl on the anniversary of her alleged death.
But one day, Tina received an email from a 29-year-old man named Kristin, who had an amazing story to share with him. After a DNA test, he learned she was the mother who abandoned him 30 years ago. While Tina believed her child died the day she gave birth, Kristin was actually adopted five days after her birth by a family in Las Vegas. During all these years, he had believed that his birth mother had abandoned him when the latter had never stopped mourning his death.
After so many years, Tina and her son have yet to meet. They get to know each other slowly by limiting themselves to video chats and calls. Today, Kristin who was born a woman is facing transition. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and newborn baby. Although she expected to see her daughter again, she doesn't care about the gender of her child, she welcomes Kristin with open arms. "I don't care if he's in transition (…) he's my child, we're just happy he's alive", Tina told ABC.
A tragic story that ends better than this family could have hoped!