Emotional:Tear-jerking reunion after mum meets daughter for the first time in 50 years after being told her newborn had died at birth. WATCH THE VIDEO.

 Wow... tears everywhere as my family & I watched this happy mother .....she finally reunited with her daughter. Thanks to social media five decades after she was told her newborn child had died in hospital.

Zella Jackson Price, 76, from Missouri, US, was told by nurses fifty years ago that the daughter she had just given birth to had died in the hospital.

However, she now knows that wasn't the case after she was tracked down by grandchildren she didn't even know she had through social media networks.The result was a tearful and joyous reunion with Melanie Diane Gilmore, her long-lost daughter who now lives in Oregon.

In 1965 at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, Zella gave birth to her daughter, but was told by a nurse shortly after that the child had died.

"She came up to me three hours later and said 'your baby passed'," said Zella.

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But it transpires that their word was far from the truth.And in Olivette, Missouri, recently, Zella finally met her daughter, who she claims "looks more like me than all of them," referring to her other five children.

Melanie's hearing is impaired after contracting measles at age three.

"She's deaf and can't hear because of measles, and I think if she had been with me, this would not have happened," said Zella.

The hospital, once the only hospital for African-Americans in St. Louis, closed in 1979.

At this point, the family has received no answers as to what happened, and why mother and daughter were torn apart from one another.

In the meantime, however, the two women plan to make up for lost time.

Zella said: "I'm still kind of in shock, I don't know what we'll find out, or what error, what was done, I don't know what we'll find out.

"Only time can heal those wounds, and it's a new chapter."