Though families of all shapes and sizes should be celebrated, it seems there are some internet-goers who are strongly against families coming together in some ways instead of others.
In a TikTok video gone viral, a mom who goes by @TheVintageParents on TikTok, shared the turmoil of becoming a mom that ultimately led to the adoption of her baby girl, now two years old.
The catch for some, however, was that the "new mom" was also an "older mom."
The video focuses on one woman's journey to becoming a mom, even though the journey was not traditional and was certainly unexpected.
The mother captioned the video:
"However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle."
In the first half of the video, we see a distraught mother and the caption:
"POV (Point of View): Being told at 41, after my latest miscarriage, that I would never be a mom and to 'accept my fate.'"
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But in the second half, we see the same woman, smiling and happily holding her now two-year-old daughter.
The entire video plays with the "What a Time" song by Niall Horan and Julia Michaels in the background. As if in response to the "POV" caption, the viral sound from the song, "What a lie, what a lie, what a lie," responds with that beautiful image of a mother and her daughter in the second half of the video.
But despite how inspiring she meant for her journey to be, some people called her selfish instead.
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Others agreed and said the life she'd inevitably given her daughter was a cruel one.
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But others saw the video for what it was—a portrayal of one mom's tough, but still beautiful, journey.
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Though the video received mixed responses, it launched an important conversation about motherhood and families in general. They truly come in all shapes, sizes and circumstances.
Though one mother may have reached her time of being a mother later and in a different way than most mothers do, and though she's facing some criticism for it, she is still happily a mother, and more than likely, she's been a mother in her heart all along.