Love Knows No Color: Black Couple’s Inspirational Journey of Adopting Three White Children
“I had always felt like I was born to be a mother,” Sadie shared. “My surgeon had taken so much time to warn me about how fertile I would be after surgery, but I still wasn’t pregnant. So, we gave up. We realized that we were only destined to be an aunt and uncle to our nieces, and godparents to our goddaughters.”
Just when Sadie and her husband, Jarvis, had decided to give up on their heartbreaking attempts to conceive, a life-changing text arrived. A friend reached out, asking if they would consider fostering a baby that a couple she knew were considering for their child.
The couple was hesitant at first. The caseworker initially asked them to care for the baby while the mother sought treatment. Sadie and Jarvis were worried they’d get too attached to the baby. But shortly after, the story took a surprising turn.
“The birth mom decided she would like you guys to adopt the child instead,” the caseworker said.
“‘Holy crap!!,’ I said aloud,” Sadie recalled the moment she found out she was going to be a mom.
“We went from not having any children to the possibility of fostering one, to, ‘You guys are parents!,’ overnight. I listened to the caseworker as she talked, still in disbelief. I hung up and called my husband! ‘Babe!! They want us to adopt the baby! They want us to be parents,’ I screamed. ‘Wait! REALLY?! I thought they just wanted us to foster him!,’ he said. ‘Nope! They want us to be his mom and dad,’ I said.”
The couple spent the weekend absorbing the shocking news, preparing themselves for the possibility that the mother might change her mind. Monday arrived, and the couple received confirmation that the mother still wanted them to adopt the baby and was ready to sign the papers that day.
Their baby boy, Ezra Lee, had been born prematurely at 33 weeks, weighing just 4 lbs., 5 oz. “He literally fit in one of my husband’s hands,” Sadie wrote.
“He was so tiny, swaddled in a white blanket with pink and blue stripes,” Sadie added. “He had an NG tube coming out of his nose because he couldn’t eat on his own since he was premature. But my oh my, was he cute!!!”
The couple shared their joyous news on social media and were encouraged to create a registry. They listed 72 items, and within just three days, 55 of them had been bought.
Ezra Lee’s adoption was finalized in October 2020, commemorated with adorable photos of the family wearing t-shirts that said, “Families don’t have to match.”
In 2021, Sadie and Jarvis expanded their family further by becoming parents to twin girls, Journee and Destinee, through embryo donation. Staying true to their family motto, “Families don’t have to match,” the black couple became proud parents to three white children – a boy and two girls.
For anyone who judges this beautiful family, they have just one response: their family is built on the most robust foundation ever – love.
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