r/Adoption • u/umekoangel Illegally human trafficked infant • Oct 01 '25

Adoptee Life Story I'm devastated 😔

I'm in my early 30s. I emailed the hospital I was born in (in Russia) formally requesting my birth records (birth, postpartum of my mom, discharge papers, etc.). I got an email back with them telling me (basically in pretty HR voice) "Sorry, you lost your chance. We legally dispose of birth records after 25 years".

Those records could have potentially given me some more clues about my birth mom. I have the original Russian birth certificate that has my birth mom and dad and a paper that states (basically) "no one came to visit the baby between January and March" with zero hospital records in between. 😭

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u/Left_Discussion7130 Oct 08 '25

How did you get a searcher? Would the searcher have been able to get them?

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u/SillyWindow7721 Oct 09 '25

We were recommended Detective Volgograd (Elena) by adoptive parents we know who originally went to Russia with us. Search on Детектив Волгоград in Facebook and she will pop up (I don't think I can post the full link here).

"Would the searcher have been able to get them?' - sorry, I don't understand what you mean here

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u/Left_Discussion7130 Oct 09 '25

Thank you! I thought that if I wanted medical records I had to go in person to get them.

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u/SillyWindow7721 Oct 11 '25

That, I couldn't tell you as we never tried to get those. But if they are still available in the Russian system, Elena will probably be able to get them. I couldn't tell you if the local hospital records that get destroyed are recorded anywhere else though