Donna, thank you so much for those words. I'm in tears right now over what you wrote. What you said means so much to me.
I so much wanted my daughter to be happy and loved and was what I was promised. As well as being promised the aparents would love me and appreciate me for giving my baby for adoption. It wasn't how things turned out. I was hated and my daughter was abused.
And yes my daughter's amom said those horrible things to me right after we together witnessed the birth of my daughter's baby who was my first grandchild.
As it was I was so tired and so exhausted from being with my daughter all day the day before and all night while she was in labor. My emotions were running high over how much pain she was in and how hard the labor was on her. My grandson almost died before he was born. His heartbeat plumited. It was so scary.
My daughter's amom didn't want to be anywhere near me and didn't want to stay through the labor but when my daughter was about to give birth after almost 24 hours of labor, then her amom showed up for the birth.
She had no interest in helping my daughter through any of it. But she wanted me to leave when she got there. I had no intention of leaving because my daughter wanted me to be there. I didn't leave. She had wanted her amom to be there too through the whole thing but the amom was too upset that I was there.
I had to travel three days on a bus to get to where my daughter was before she had her baby. It was difficult but she wanted me to be there and I was honored to be part of that. Her amom didn't want me there.
The joy of seeing my first grandson being born was wonderful but the things the amom said out in the hall right after the baby was born I have never forgotten. I just hope that someday I am not as hurt by it as I still am right now.
Rylee