Their newborn suddenly died, but 4 days later ‘the grieving parents received a call from the hospital
Basically, he was missing some genetic information and some was duplicated,” explains Katie. Sadly, when Dewey went back to the hospital for a routine check up, everything took a terrible turn for the worst. Dewey was rushed in for an emergency heart surgery, but sadly he passed away at only 4 months old. Katie and Josh were completely crushed by grief. Days and months went by, but Katie was still paralyzed by dark thoughts. She couldn’t understand how she could lose her precious son, now she had a massive hole in her heart. But destiny was about to change their lives again, this time for the better. “While we were in the hospital, we got to be good friends with everyone,” Katie explains.
As it turns out, there was a baby called Braxtel who had been born in the hospital in the same wing as Dewey. But Braxtel never got to go home from the hospital. He had severe breathing problems, but was on the road towards recovery. There was only one problem: Braxtel didn’t have a home or parents. One of the nurses who had got to know Katie immediately thought of her when Braxtel’s situation became more urgent. They asked Katie and Josh if they were interested in adoption and the couple decided to meet Braxtel a few days later. “Brax’ biological parents couldn’t take care of him, they couldn’t afford his medical expenses. His biological mom decided to let him be adopted because she recognized that she couldn’t provide the best care for him,” Katie says. Shortly after, Katie and Josh were able to take their baby home. It wasn’t what they had imagined when they started out, but they couldn’t be more grateful for Brax and how he came into their lives. The couple could not be happier and they say that their marriage is so much stronger because of everything they have gone through.