{"id":37122,"date":"2024-12-10T09:58:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T09:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=37122"},"modified":"2025-02-24T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:34:15","slug":"families-dont-have-to-match-black-couple-share-their-journey-to-adopting-three-white-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=37122","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Families don\u2019t have to match\u2019 \u2013 Black couple share >>>>>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"843\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-494.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-494.png 843w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-494-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-494-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-494-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadie and Jarvis Sampson yearned for parenthood, trying for years to conceive. They tried ovulation tests, cycle tracking, and even gastric surgery to boost fertility, but nothing worked. Heartbroken, they gave up, believing they were destined to be doting godparents and the fun aunt and uncle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything changed with a text. A friend asked if they\u2019d consider fostering a baby whose birth parents couldn\u2019t care for him. Initially hesitant, their lives shifted when the birth mother decided they should adopt the child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The premature baby boy, Ezra Lee, was born at 33 weeks, weighing just 4 pounds, 5 ounces. Sadie described holding the swaddled infant with an NG tube and feeling overwhelmed by his cuteness. Ezra\u2019s adoption was finalized in 2020, with the family donning shirts proclaiming, <em>\u201cFamilies don\u2019t have to match.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, the Sampsons welcomed twin girls, Journee and Destinee, through embryo donation. Now parents to three white children, Sadie and Jarvis say their family is grounded in love, not appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their inspiring story proves that family transcends race and genetics. It\u2019s built on love, resilience, and hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=37078\" title=\"\">ALSO READ&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadie and Jarvis Sampson yearned for parenthood, trying for years to conceive. They tried ovulation tests, cycle tracking, and even gastric surgery to boost fertility, but nothing&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49495,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37122\/revisions\/49495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}