Adoptees: How old are you in the first picture of yourself?

PhilM

For the first three and a half decades of life, I was 1 month old in my first picture. That was also my (adoptive) parents got me.

When I reunited with my (first) mom, she had the hospital picture of me. It had been sent to her by mistake, and she kept all those years, through floods and other crises. I finally saw it for the first time when we met.

Lillie

The very first picture that I possess of me was taken on November 1, 1973, they day they brought me home.

I was just about 4 months old.

And man was I BALD. Not a single hair. Made my ears stick out like Opie, lol.

Anha S

6 months old, the day my aparents brought me home. I got to see a newborn picture of myself when i found my first mom.

cantstopLinnyG

I was 5 1/2 months old when my ap's got me. There are 3 pics of me from that day. In every one I have an expression on my face which seems to say, "Oh, for cr@ps sake, here we go again, who are these people??" Cant blame my baby self though, I had been in 2 orphanages and 2 different foster homes.

Even in the posed Olan Mills type pictures, I just look really confused. I dont think there is a smiling pic of me until I was almost 2.

kateiskate

I think I was a couple months old. It's a picture taken by the orphanage that I was at before going to foster parents and then coming to my parents. I look terrible. It's the pic they used to give my parents when they got their refferal.

Torrejon

I have one picture of me laying on a sofa and an adult arm making sure that I did not roll off. I was about 1 month old. Amom always said that it was taken by "the people who took care of you before I got you." ugh.

Isabel A

I had really good fosters. They kept in touch with my family and sent all the pictures they took of me as an infant when they handed me over to my aparents. I have pics from when I came to their house at 3 days old and the whole three months I was with them. In fact, my amom just sent me my baby album so I was just looking at those pictures yesterday.
I think it's a crap shoot on what kind of fosters an adoptee gets. I was fortunate to get some good ones.

Robin

What a GREAT QUESTION! The first pictures of me are at around 20 months old. It's always made me kinda sad. I couldn't compare photos of myself to my own children or grand kids pictures...well, not until they were/are around 20 months anyway.

When I met my 1st mom, she had a photo of me probably around 8 months old? It was the only one she had (the other ones had been lost to a fire). It was so amazing to see ME. I wish I had a copy of that photo. My 1st mom passed away 11 years ago.

I brought a photo album of me growing up to share with her on our 1st visit. In one photo, I was wearing an adult's leather jacket & sun glasses. She told me that it was her jacket & her glasses. Oh how I wished I'd known that growing up! How amazing that would have been for me to have SOMETHING of me that connected me to her!

Thanks for the memories.

{{{Hugs}}}

Possum

2 weeks old. That's when my AP's took me home.

celtic.piskie

5 years.

i was never a baby, ready built human me.

SJM

5 1/2 months old. I didn't exist before that.

ETA: In my very first picture, I was wearing a red dress with a white border that was embroidered with the phrase, "My heart belongs to Daddy." I'd known him for about two days at the time.

Rowan

the only picture of myself i can find was me at roughly a year in a walker with my twin bro . my APs had me from 8 months.i dont know where the other pictures are.

Man i was a funny looking kid..lol

Erin L

We, and our daughter, are very lucky that we (she) have about 50 pictures of her before she joined our family at 9 months old, which is pretty rare in international adoption. The earliest picture is at 4 days old, actually you might say the earliest picture of her is the picture of her first mother about 8 months pregnant with her. There are some pictures of her with her first family and foster family. She likes looking at her Taiwan pictures.

mom to be

I was about 4 months old, my grandmother gave it to me. All pictures before that were destroyed by my bio father---- he had anger issues.

Randy B

My first photo was taken at a couple of months old, after my parents got me. Things were a bit different back then and not as many photos were taken but I've still got them young.

Both of my adopted daughters have photos taken shortly after they came home to us, one at 8 months old and the other when she was days old. We actually have more baby pics of our adopted daughters then of our natural born one but I think thats because we adopted both times when we were away from family and needed to take more to send off to people but our daughter was born to us when we lived very close to family.

Minnimouse

My adoptive parents wer given a photo of me when I was about 3 months, i had a lot of fluffy dark golden hair and was on a soft sheepskin. The next one is about 6 months when I was first with them, I am in a car seat screaming my head off.

aloha.girl59

I have a picture of my son at 3 weeks old. He was in his first foster home then. He was removed from that home at the age of six months and placed in his second foster home where he remained until he was 2-1/2 years old. I have a few pictures of him from about 5 months to a year and then...nothing. I treasure the newborn picture of him because I can see this 8 year old boy in that tiny 3 week old face. He looks just like his first mother! All of his baby pictures that I possess are in frames in our living room. It makes me sad that there aren't more pictures of him prior to age 2-1/2. In the first year he lived with us, we must have taken over a thousand pictures of him -- everything from him in the bathtub, to sleeping, to trips to Disneyland.

icehockeymom7

We adopted our daughter when she was 2 1/2 years old, and we are fortunate to have a photo of her at about 4 months of age, taken by the orphanage. It was the photo they took to put in the newspaper in what they call her "finding ad" in China. They place an ad with the child's photo, description of where the child was found, etc, in effort to "find" her birthparents. The orphanage actually did a decent job of taking a few photos of her every couple of months, so that she at least has about 10 photos of her infancy. I wish more than anything we had a photo of her as a newborn. I grieve that, I know she will someday too. She was found when she was about 3 weeks old, but they did not run her finding ad until she was 4 months old (common in China). I love to show her the photos of her as a baby, she loves it too. I feel so lucky to have those pictures, otherwise all she would have is what we have taken since age 2 1/2.

cassie

i have one of me in the hospital at 1 day but i only have like 5 pics of me when i was 0-10 yrs

Dreamweaver ILF posse 2009

2 days old. Its a pic of the attorney handing me to my sobbing daddy! :) Its a beautiful pic that makes me cry. LOL

âœ§ â“â“˜â“›â“¨ â™¥ kaelers, emy & bella

My friends' parents have a few, starting when I was 7.
My biological mother never kept school photos, never took photos. She refused to keep photos of anyone but herself in the house.
I have none of myself before grade school. My mother once told me I had blond hair as a baby, that might have been... interesting to see.

My friends' parents liked me and when I spent time with them, they took a few, but I don't really want them. I only like the ones I have of myself after I was adopted.

BOTZ

5 months.

My a-parents 'got' me at just under 4 weeks.

I think there is a family that may have younger pics of me -- the 'foster' carers. They were not state foster parents, though, they were arranged by the church/agency. I haven't found/contacted them yet, but I'm working on it.

I love Chris!

the day my parents got me. i was only 3 days old.

almost human

Two years, nine months.
Held up on the hip of a wizened old woman, who I lovingly thought was my foster mother my whole life.

Now I have been informed that there were no foster mothers at that point in time, and that she was a nurse and I was in a ward of an orphanage with about 16 others.

Oh well. I guess I can still be grateful to her.

I will help

i wish i could say the same. i was about 9 months. but idc i got a loving family for waiting long!!

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