In a world where families can come from anywhere, there are usually two kinds of people. There are the ones who didn’t plan to have a child and weren’t ready for it. And then there are the ones who have everything they need to raise a child, but just can’t seem to conceive one. Sadie and Jarvis Sampson are in the latter camp.
Sadie and Jarvis Sampson are a couple from Houston who wanted nothing more than to have children of their own.
Though that proved incredibly difficult.
The pair were wed in 2018 and had tried for a child again and again, to no avail.
That stork just didn’t want to show up. Lots of people have no trouble conceiving a child, which makes it easy to take for granted how hard it is for people like Sadie and Jarvis.
Nothing was helping either. No amount of vitamins, check-ups, and ovulation tests made a difference.
All the doctors and friends that they spoke to could do little more than offer support and advice. The odds, and maybe genes, just weren’t in the couple’s favor. Sadie and Jarvis tried and tried, and all they had to show for it were more negative pregnancy tests.
Seeing that many negative pregnancy tests would probably make most people throw their hands in the air and give up. I certainly wouldn’t blame the two of them for doing that.
Sadie wanted to be a mother more than anything, so she of all people wasn’t going to give up. It was when they got a special call that things would change, and not in the way you’d expect.
A friend asked them if they’d like to foster a child for a while.
The child was conceived by a couple that Sadie’s friend knew.
The couple was considering foster care or adoption for their child (who was still in the womb), and their mutual friend decided to make the call.
Of course, Sadie and Jarvis considered it. But that’s a big step, even though they did want a child badly.
They weren’t sure if they could foster a child without getting attached.
Well, it’s a good thing the biological parents encouraged them too. The caseworker overseeing the foster child told Sadie that the biological parents wanted the child to be in Sadie and Jarvis’ care instead.
The adoption process played out, and Sadie almost didn’t want to believe it. She and Jarvis were afraid that somehow, they would be denied a child again. But not this time.
When the baby boy was born, he was surrounded by his biological parents and his soon-to-be adoptive parents.
He was named Ezra, and Sadie held him in his swaddle with the biggest smile on her face.
The baby did not look much like them at all.
Sadie and Jarvis were a black couple, and little Ezra was white. But as Sadie would soon say often, families don’t have to match.
Baby Ezra’s skin looked nothing like his parents’ skin, but that’s not something a child’s going to care about. All Ezra is going to know is that he can call them mom and dad, and he was their son.
Finally, after years of nothing, they were blessed with a child. And they didn’t stop there either.
Thanks to an embryo donation, Ezra received two sisters two that Sadie actually carried in her womb this time. They were named Journee and Destinee, and their skin tone also looked a lot more like Ezra’s.
Now, they were 40% black, 60% white, but 100% family.
The Sampson family is now on social media so everyone can see that there are families out there that don’t match. I’m sure the representation matters to the minority of kids out there who also don’t match their parents, or to the parents who were in similar situations to the Sampsons.
It’s worth seeing just how happy the Sampsons are. They asked for a family and got one they never expected.
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