Heartwarming!!! Mom Has Tearful Reunion with Daughter Taken from Her at Birth: ‘Never Stopped Loving Her’
For 42 years, Nancy Womac held out hope that she would one day meet the daughter who had been taken from her at birth in a Tennessee hospital.
The girl was always on Womac’s mind over the years, to the point that she would bake a cake on her daughter’s birthday every year and wonder how her life was unfolding.
Womac had never even been allowed to hold her daughter when she was born in June of 1979, but that day finally came in August when she and Melanie Spencer shared a tearful embrace four decades in the making after an improbable reunion set in motion by a 2018 DNA test on Ancestry.
Womac was 16 years old when she learned she was pregnant, and was living in an orphanage in Dalton, Georgia, at the time. After the orphanage director found out she was expecting, she was sent to the Bethesda Home for Girls in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where Womac and other girls who were placed there said they were a.b.u.s.e.d, according to court filings, Today reports.
Roloff Homes, the former operators of the Bethesda Home for Girls, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Two weeks before she was set to give birth, Womac was put on a plane to East Ridge, Tennessee, to deliver her daughter, per the segment.
“I remember going into labor, and they just give me a shot and put me out,” she said. “I don’t remember having her. I don’t remember them wheeling me into the delivery room. I don’t remember nothing. She was then gone by the time I woke up.”
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Over the years, Womac continuously thought about her daughter, Melanie Spencer, who was equally as curious about the biological mother she had never met.
Spencer, who was raised in South Africa by her missionary parents, eventually moved to the United States to go to college, and it wasn’t until she had two children of her own that she really focused on finding Womac.
After Spencer received her Ancestry results,
she was able to contact Womac’s sister, Cheryl Blackwell, who didn’t see the message until a year later. Eventually, Spencer and Womac started talking on Facebook, which led to them meeting in person at Womac’s home in Georgia.
Spencer went on to spend a few days with Womac and her other siblings, and Womac couldn’t stop gushing about her first-born daughter, cherishing the time they now get to spend together over four decades after she was born.
Source:7news.com.au, people.com
