Mom adopts 3rd sibling after learning she was fostering son’s biological sister

[July 9, 2020: Good Morning America] A mother who gained viral attention in 2019 after discovering the baby girl she was fostering…

[July 9, 2020: Good Morning America]

A mother who gained viral attention in 2019 after discovering the baby girl she was fostering shared the same biological mother as her newly adopted son has now adopted a third sibling.

On June 25, Katie Page of Castle Rock, Colorado, officially adopted 1-year-old Jackson. Page first adopted Jackson's brother Grayson, 4, in 2017, and one year later, their sister Hannah, 3, who Page had been fostering.

"The minute I held him, I was so overjoyed," Page told "Good Morning America" of her new son. "I said, 'This this is their brother, this is their family.'"

A month after Page adopted Grayson, she received a call about a newborn girl, Hannah, who needed a home. No one was aware that the two children were actually brother and sister.

But when Page brought Hannah home and saw the name of the biological mother on the hospital bracelet, she noticed a similarity.... MORE


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