Adoption vlogs always tear at my heart strings. So many bittersweet stories. You are wonderfully poised Sarah, listening to you has been enlightening. Most adoptees seem conflicted. You have accepted very graciously, the pieces of your story and how those pieces fit together so well. Your mom must be exceptionally proud of you 😊
Great video, I'm glad you appreciate both your foster parents and your adoptive mom. Don't forget to tell her you love her as much as you can because she loves you! You're beautiful :)
Thanks for the honest sharing! You look beautiful, inside out! God bless you and your family! You will continue to do well and become a successful woman.
You are so beautiful! Never doubt that. I wish I had adopted a baby from China. Growing up I wanted to look like I was from China. No doubt that your Mom feels lucky too to have such a beautiful Daughter. Bless you! ❤️
You’re so beautiful honestly and my story is a lot like yours! I was left in front of the orphanage gates, but with no note. I was adopted when I was 10 months. I’m planning on making my videos ab my story in a couple days! :)
You are a beautiful, articulate young lady. I am soo happy that you are at peace with your tough start in life, i.e. your parents giving u up. A lot of young womrn who are adopted are struggling
Beautyful video. I am myself adopted from Colombia to Norway🇳🇴 and i so glad that i fell that i love to be open aboute my backround🇨🇴❤ i was adopted as a 2 years old girl and i also lived in a foster family🇨🇴 i was born i the capital Bogota❤
Thanks for sharing. Sounds like you have a great mom. I am glad you want to learn more about your heritage. I know its not cheap but now that your older you should go back and visit your homeland. I look forward to your future videos. Ron
Have you ever thought about trying to find your birth family by taking out an ad in your birth city newspaper, listing your birthday and mentioning the scar? It would be powerful.
Great question! I definitely have thought of this before. As of now, who knows? I still have a lot of life to live and I don't know where I'll end up. I am certainly open to the idea. Thanks for the comment!
Loved your video thank you so much for sharing! I am also a Chinese adoptee as well! I’m from the Guangxi provience! I’d love to talk to u sometime!! ☺️❤️
Sarah..merci t.y. for sharing your adoption story..I know hundreds of thousands have questions you answered..we view gotcha days videos..follow some for a few years and wonder how they did in life, feel, adjusted ..t.y. again absolutely pretty China Doll..moi, Canada 🇨🇦 ❤
Sarah Ottinger 天啦，你居然会中文。而且亲自回复我。我看了UA-cam上面很多中国女婴被领养的故事。你的故事很感人。我把你的故事讲给我退休的妈妈听，她哭了。因为妈妈说如果我是女孩也要被领养，一个上海的高级知识分子都和我家联系好了，他们等待我出生的消息。后来我做了B超，我是男生。后来就没有后来了。I am so glad that you keep your Chinese identification and have a good master of Chinese. Wish you a happy life with your step mom.
Such a good video! I’m also adopted by a single mother but am in the U.K. I’m part of a group called China’s Children International and would recommend you join x
Hello, there! This is my very first UA-cam comment haha. I like your message. But to be fair, how do you know you wouldn’t be happy if you had grown up in China? Granted you probably won’t be given the same opportunities as you would in the states, but then you would be wanting different things in life and chances are you could be happy as well.
Haha I'm honored that I am your very first comment! That's definitely a fair question. It's impossible for me to know how I would feel if I had grown up in China with completely different circumstances; I would probably be accustomed to those circumstances since that is all that I would know. However, I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I cannot fathom living a life any better than the one that I am living now. Granted, I've faced many challenges, but they have shaped me to be who I am today, and I'm thankful for that. Thanks for the comment!
Hi ，you can put the blog video on the china website ，such as ‘wechat’、‘新浪微博’、‘今日头条’。。。if you want to find your chinese parents。。especially‘今日头条’，good luck！
You should be thankful. You are very lucky to be adopted into the first world. If you were abandoned because of a preference for girls, your birth family probably did not have good socioeconomic circumstances as this preference was only prevalent in the poor rural areas of China where life is full of hardship. Girls born in the cities by the early 2000s are cherished. Anyway fast forward now to the year 2018: the families with daughters are all having the last laugh. No matter if you're in the city or rural areas, the ones with sons now need to pay their daughter-in-law with at least a mortgage-less house, brand new car, and hundreds of thousands of USD in money in order to marry. Now that there is the entire population of Canada (35 million) of men who will go forever without marrying due to the imbalanced sex ratio. Nowadays everyone in China wants daughters, the preference has completely changed!
She sat there and said she was thankful to her mom to have been adopted. Go watch the beginning again. Your reply was out of line. Who are you to tell her how to feel? Even after she already feels that way? You should be ashamed of yourself.
Adoption vlogs always tear at my heart strings. So many bittersweet stories. You are wonderfully poised Sarah, listening to you has been enlightening. Most adoptees seem conflicted. You have accepted very graciously, the pieces of your story and how those pieces fit together so well. Your mom must be exceptionally proud of you 😊
Janis Fallstich thank you so much! This means a lot to me!
Janis Fallstich I wanted to say the same things but couldn't pull the right words together - wonderfully said.
Awesome story! Your mom sounds amazing. Adopting at 50 is so inspiring! You seem very well rounded shes clearly done a wonderful job raising you. ❤
wow, thank you very much!!!!!
I think it is so awesome you were adopted by this woman, and I bet you are her pride and joy. You are an awesome grateful daughter.
Great video, I'm glad you appreciate both your foster parents and your adoptive mom. Don't forget to tell her you love her as much as you can because she loves you! You're beautiful :)
Sarah, you are awesome! I am an adoptive father to a 3 year-old boy from China, and I hope that he grows up to be like you!!!
wow, thank you, that really means a lot!
Hey girl, I was adopted from China too! :)
#madeinchina
Great share! Thank you!
Thanks for the honest sharing! You look beautiful, inside out! God bless you and your family! You will continue to do well and become a successful woman.
You are so beautiful! Never doubt that. I wish I had adopted a baby from China. Growing up I wanted to look like I was from China. No doubt that your Mom feels lucky too to have such a beautiful Daughter. Bless you! ❤️
This is such an awesome story Sarah! Thank you for sharing :)
Another beautiful adoption video! Thank you for sharing!
You’re so beautiful honestly and my story is a lot like yours! I was left in front of the orphanage gates, but with no note. I was adopted when I was 10 months. I’m planning on making my videos ab my story in a couple days! :)
Woah that's crazy!!!! And both of our names are Sarah. CRAZY. I'll totally subscribe to you, and I can't wait to watch your video!
Sarah Mei cant wait to see/hear it.
Great first video. Can't wait to see more.
Your foster family in China also were great and kind people! God bless them.
Such an awesome story!!! That's great that you are sharing something like this!
So interesting, your adventure is marvelous
You are a beautiful, articulate young lady. I am soo happy that you are at peace with your tough start in life, i.e. your parents giving u up. A lot of young womrn who are adopted are struggling
I like your personality. I can see the stronger in your eyes
Thank you for sharing your story 💕
u deserve the world
Beautiful
Beautyful video. I am myself adopted from Colombia to Norway🇳🇴 and i so glad that i fell that i love to be open aboute my backround🇨🇴❤ i was adopted as a 2 years old girl and i also lived in a foster family🇨🇴 i was born i the capital Bogota❤
Thanks for sharing. Sounds like you have a great mom. I am glad you want to learn more about your heritage. I know its not cheap but now that your older you should go back and visit your homeland. I look forward to your future videos. Ron
I was adopted from China too!! Thank you for sharing your story :^)
Nice video Sarah. 👌
Have you ever thought about trying to find your birth family by taking out an ad in your birth city newspaper, listing your birthday and mentioning the scar? It would be powerful.
Great question! I definitely have thought of this before. As of now, who knows? I still have a lot of life to live and I don't know where I'll end up. I am certainly open to the idea. Thanks for the comment!
Aww sweetie i love this video❤️
Loved👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Wonderful story. Do you like Country Music ? Cheers from New Zealand
Omg I’m from jiangxi too. I grew up in Jiangxi and now I moved to Singapore.
Loved your video thank you so much for sharing! I am also a Chinese adoptee as well! I’m from the Guangxi provience! I’d love to talk to u sometime!! ☺️❤️
Take very good care of your mom . My adopted sons take good care of me... ❤️💝💓💘💕💞
Sarah..merci t.y. for sharing your adoption story..I know hundreds of thousands have questions you answered..we view gotcha days videos..follow some for a few years and wonder how they did in life, feel, adjusted ..t.y. again absolutely pretty China Doll..moi, Canada 🇨🇦 ❤
很高兴听到你介绍你被收养的故事。你很勇敢，加油！
非常感謝！
Sarah Ottinger 天啦，你居然会中文。而且亲自回复我。我看了UA-cam上面很多中国女婴被领养的故事。你的故事很感人。我把你的故事讲给我退休的妈妈听，她哭了。因为妈妈说如果我是女孩也要被领养，一个上海的高级知识分子都和我家联系好了，他们等待我出生的消息。后来我做了B超，我是男生。后来就没有后来了。I am so glad that you keep your Chinese identification and have a good master of Chinese. Wish you a happy life with your step mom.
Yeah you're so. Beautiful.
You are beautiful !
Such a good video! I’m also adopted by a single mother but am in the U.K. I’m part of a group called China’s Children International and would recommend you join x
Hello, there! This is my very first UA-cam comment haha. I like your message. But to be fair, how do you know you wouldn’t be happy if you had grown up in China? Granted you probably won’t be given the same opportunities as you would in the states, but then you would be wanting different things in life and chances are you could be happy as well.
Haha I'm honored that I am your very first comment! That's definitely a fair question. It's impossible for me to know how I would feel if I had grown up in China with completely different circumstances; I would probably be accustomed to those circumstances since that is all that I would know. However, I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I cannot fathom living a life any better than the one that I am living now. Granted, I've faced many challenges, but they have shaped me to be who I am today, and I'm thankful for that. Thanks for the comment!
Hi ，you can put the blog video on the china website ，such as ‘wechat’、‘新浪微博’、‘今日头条’。。。if you want to find your chinese parents。。especially‘今日头条’，good luck！
You should be thankful. You are very lucky to be adopted into the first world. If you were abandoned because of a preference for girls, your birth family probably did not have good socioeconomic circumstances as this preference was only prevalent in the poor rural areas of China where life is full of hardship. Girls born in the cities by the early 2000s are cherished.
Anyway fast forward now to the year 2018: the families with daughters are all having the last laugh. No matter if you're in the city or rural areas, the ones with sons now need to pay their daughter-in-law with at least a mortgage-less house, brand new car, and hundreds of thousands of USD in money in order to marry. Now that there is the entire population of Canada (35 million) of men who will go forever without marrying due to the imbalanced sex ratio.
Nowadays everyone in China wants daughters, the preference has completely changed!
She sat there and said she was thankful to her mom to have been adopted. Go watch the beginning again. Your reply was out of line. Who are you to tell her how to feel? Even after she already feels that way? You should be ashamed of yourself.
Your mom’s guess on the scar is probably true. There are many tv shows in China have storyline like that.
WHAT THE HELL SARAH THIS HAS SO MANY VIEWS
where your father and mother?
Gee, Christians who were mean? No way!!