Mother records emotional video for son she put up for adoption

'I just wanted to let you know that I love you'

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Giving a baby up for adoption is never an easy choice - and one mum’s emotional video to her newborn son shows just how heartbreaking the decision can be.

Hannah Mongie was just 18 when she found out she was pregnant. But as she tells her newborn son in the moving video, her and her boyfriend, Kaden, were overjoyed with the news.

However, during Hannah’s pregnancy, Kaden died.

Although Hannah struggled with the decision to give up her last part of Kaden after giving birth to her son in 2016, she ultimately decided it would be best for her newborn son Taggart to be raised by a full, loving family.

In the two days Hannah spent with her baby before he went to his new home, she filmed the heartbreaking video explaining her decision to her son.

The video, as she states in the beginning, is “Before placement, so right now he is 100 per cent mine.”

Hannah then continues, “I made this video so you know how much I love you.”

While explaining the circumstances behind her difficult decision, as her newborn son lays in front of her, Hannah holds back tears as she tells Tagg “You are so cute you are making this hard.”

Now, three years later, Mongie has shared the moving video on the Love What Matters Facebook page, where it has been shared over 12,000 times.

Alongside the video, Hannah wrote: “This video was created so that he would be able to look back and know that this decision was made purely out of love for him.

“He will never have to think that I ‘gave him up’ or that I did not love him. He will always be able to know that I loved him more than anyone else in the world.”

While the video will make you cry, there is a bright side to the heartbreaking story.

Hannah put Tagg up for an open adoption, defined by Wikipedia as “an adoption in which the biological and adoptive families have access to varying degrees of each other's personal information and have an option of contact. In open adoption, the adoptive parents hold all the rights as the legal parents, yet the individuals of the biological and adoptive families may exercise the option to open the contact in varying forms: from just sending mail and/or photos, to face-to-face visits between birth and adoptive families.”

For Hannah, this means she is able to see her son at least once a month, and sometimes several times a month.

And, as Hannah tells KTVU, “Rather than ‘giving him up’ or ‘away,’ I just adopted his entire family into mine. We just grew and everyone loves each other as if we’ve always been family.”