I would love to get my baby back.
My parents adopted my daughter when she was about 5 months old. I don't know what I was thinking. At the time it was probably the best thing because my head wasn't fully there. I wasn't unfit, but my priorities were all wrong. The father is nowhere in the picture & he already signed his rights off. My mom totally talked me into the adoption. She mentioned her & my dad adopting my daughter when I was in the middle of anxiety attack so of course I went with what felt right at that moment. They took her the very next day & all her belongings. A month went by & I realized what a mistake I had made. My mother & I sent emails back & forth, she wouldn't let me have her back & told me I made the right decision by letting them have her. I stopped talking to my mom totally for a couple months after, and she one day sent me a card in the mail saying how much she loved me blah blah blah & how I was making a good decision, said she would make sure my daughter knew who I was & she was in good hands... basically talked me into just going through w/the adoption. The following weekend I finally hung out w/my mother, and my daughter. My mom brought the adoption paperwork frm her lawyer, drove us to a notary where we both signed the paperwork & then spent the afternoon together. After that day my mom was in touch less & less, and we didn't hang out anymore. It was almost like she was avoiding my presence. Not to mention it was hard for me to be around my daughter because I still cried & felt deep down the adoption was the wrong thing to do, post pardom perhaps is what I was going through. That's the only thing I can think of, because I feel totally betrayed & taken advantage of. I don't talk to my family anymore. My daughter will be two this month. I miss her like crazy & really really would like to get her back, but lawyers are so expensive. There's no hope is there? I don't want any communication w/my mom, I resent her. I just want my daughter back. I have dreams every other day about my daughter, which leaves me so sad the next day, and crying at night. I hold on to the pics & memories I have of my daughter for the few months I had her. I just really don't know what to do.