Katie Price has a big heart and now a big family of her own.
After years of struggling with fertility issues during her marriage, Price decided she was interested in adopting. Her marriage had ended and she had moved to Colorado to begin a new career and new life.
Then an e-mail from her pastor changed her life forever. He asked if she would be interested in becoming a certified foster parent. Since she had always planned to adopt someday, she followed up and attended meetings to learn more.
After becoming certified, she fostered four children and decided she was ready to adopt her own. That’s when she was contacted out of the blue by a caseworker in 2016 asking her to take in a newborn boy who had been surrendered to a local hospital after his mother gave birth. He was only 4-days-old and was never given a name.
Price named the little boy Grayson and since his parents never tried to reclaim him, their legal rights were terminated by the court and she was able to legally adopt him 11 months later.
Here’s a photo of a happy Grayson on his adoption day:
Katie knew she wanted her family to get bigger, but planned to wait a while until Grayson was older to look into another adoption. But sometimes life has a way of changing your plans unexpectedly.
Just a couple of weeks after Grayson’s adoption was finalized, she got a call from a different caseworker to say yet another baby had been surrendered to the same hospital where Grayson was born and then left.
“I know over the next 10 minutes and subsequent phone calls I made that afternoon, the phrase ‘I know I am crazy, but God is telling me to say YES’ kept coming out of my mouth.”
Price agreed to foster the little girl, who she named Hannah.
But when she looked closer at the little hospital bracelet on the baby’s arm, she made a shocking discovery. Only the mother’s first name appeared on the bracelet, but it was the same name that appeared on Grayson’s bracelet a year ago. Price also looked into the birth mother’s discharge paperwork to discover that Grayson and Hannah’s mother had the same birthday.
Could it be a coincidence, or were the children actually siblings?
It was a long-shot since Grayson and Hannah don’t look alike (Grayson is half African-American and has darker skin and dark curly hair while Hannah is pale with straight strawberry blond hair), but Katie was intent of finding out.
We’re not sure why she didn’t just have a DNA test performed at the start, but Price decided to try to track down the birth mother. And she was successful; the women told her she had given birth to a boy and a girl who she surrendered to the same hospital. A later DNA test did confirm that Grayson and Hannah are biological half-siblings.
Since the birth mother was not able to care for the children, Price was able to adopt Hannah as well.
Price said on her blog:
“It is a sheer miracle, once in a lifetime chance… call it what you will, but it is amazing that my children found each other.”
Now, Grayson and Hannah have a 5-month-old sibling that Price is also hoping to adopt. The baby is already with her, but the process will take some time.
The baby’s name is Jackson and Price hopes to be able to finalize his adoption this year.
It’s an incredible story with a happy ending for these three young children who are all related and will have the privilege of being raised by someone who can take care of them.
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