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DES MOINES, Iowa — A 19-year-old Iowa girl has recently fulfilled a wish she has had for the past five years by using social media.

According to the Des Moines Register, Hannah Stouffer found her birth mother by tweeting a photo of herself holding a sign, which gave the details of her birth. The sign stated her birth date, the age her mother was at the time of her birth, the name of the hospital where she was born, as well as a request for people to share her tweet in hopes her birth mother would see it.

Stouffer’s mother was just 15 years old when she gave birth to her, and Stouffer said it was her goal to meet her mom and thank her for giving her life.

Three days after the tweet was initially posted, Stouffer’s biological mother, Nicole Reinier, had seen it and tracked down Stouffer’s phone number. Reinier then sent her a text telling her that she was her birth mother.

On Saturday, April 19, the Register reported the two of them had met for the first time at an area coffee shop, something Stouffer, who is also the mother of a one-year-old girl, had dreamed of doing since she was 14 years old. And now Stouffer says a void has been filled in her life because of it.

“I don’t feel that empty feeling anymore. I don’t feel lost anymore,” Stouffer told the Register. “It’s one of the most incredible feelings. I feel more complete than I ever have in my entire life.”

During their encounter Reinier told Stouffer how thankful she was for her adoptive parents. Stouffer also talked about how going through the process of having her own daughter has helped her to understand what her mother must have been dealing with at the time of her birth.

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[Source: Des Moines Register, myfox8.com]

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