birth mother

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Kelly said that while she was scared of her birth mother, "there is a very strange thing that no one understands unless you've been a child in that position".

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

The two children, known as X and Y, had made their own decision to move back in with their birth mother.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

Mieke Murkes was an infant when her birth mother, Okgyun, gave her up for adoption.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

These children were almost always placed for adoption without much input from the birth mother, and the trauma that resulted was often lifelong.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2025

Then, when Christmas break came, I would tell the school I was sick and go to Birmingham and live with my birth mother and have the baby there.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose