Obtaining medical information of birth partents?

Question

Does anyone know if there is a way to obtain just the medical history of birth parents without having to track the birth parents down? My husband is adopted and we are pregnant with our first child. We just want his biological family medical history.

Answer 1

i am an adoptee.  i have met my bmother and all the medical history that i had been given prior to meeting her was falsified by the adoption agency.

so unfortunately, what you get from them...is almost always false.

Answer 2

Nobody can go nosing into another person's medical records, no.  Isn't that what the HIPPA laws are for

If you make contact then a person can hopefully volunteer the vital information.  Good luck.

Answer 3

Medical information is not something that anyone is normally forced to release.  Under HIPAA, this information is private.

The only way to get medical information is by making contact, or having someone make contact, with one's first parents.  

No one says you have to have a relationship with them if you don't want to, but first parents should not be legally forced into doing something that no other persons are forced into doing when it comes to releasing medical information.  They should not be treated unequally under the law.

In kind, adopted citizens should not be treated unequally under the law, but they are in 44 states.  When an adoption is finalized, the state seals the person's OWN birth record and will not release it without the person meeting various qualifications.  Non-adopted citizens are not treated this way.

If I had been given up for adoption, but not adopted, my birth record would have never sealed.  It is only because I got adopted over a year later that it sealed.

Adopted citizens and first parents should also enjoy -- and utilize -- the free association that is enjoyed by other citizens.  This means that if someone wants information s/he can, and should be able to, contact the person from whom the information is desired.  Adopted citizens and first parents should not expect, or be expected to, do it differently.

Despite this, there are discriminatory laws for adopted citizens and birth parents.  You can find out more about the laws and available information in your state by visiting the URL below, as each state has its own methods by which information can be obtained.

Although the page is called "searchers," you will be given information about how to get what you desire.  In some states, there are no means of obtaining what you want without just finding the first parents and asking.

http://adopteerights.net/nulliusfilius/?...

Answer 4

You'll have to find his parents.  It would probably be good for your family anyway.

The agencies only have information about the 'girl' who gave up her child.  Most people don't have health problems when they're in their teens and early 20s.  

They'd (his parents) would most likely love to hear from him!  Studies show 98% of natural mothers hope for and welcome contact from their children.

A great book that might help your husband (and you) is The Grils Who Went Away by Ann Fessler.  Most women who relinquish did not want to give their children away, but had little or no support to parent their children.

Good luck.

Answer 5

some states have program to assist with that.  contact your state representative and ask them to assist you in finding the proper department to do this.  Through my state, it is a free service on behalf of the adoptee.  Yes, they will track down the birthparents but identifying info will not be dispersed.

I believe that birthparents should have to update their medical histories every 5 years (at a minimum).  Sometimes, things pop up in their lives when they're 50 that they didn't know about in their 20's when they relinquished.