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Lisa Hodge

Mum stunned after discovering her adopted children are really brother and sister

A single mum who separately adopted a baby boy then a girl was astonished to discover the babies were actually biological siblings.

Katie Page got into fostering following the collapse of her marriage, through her local church and took in her first child, a four-day-old baby boy in 2017.

Katie, from Colorado, was told the boy had been abandoned at hospital and needed someone to nurture and care for him until a permanent home could be found.

Soon after making this decision, she was asked to take in a four-day-old baby boy who had been abandoned at a hospital, reports LoveWhatMatters.

The child, who hadn't yet been named, had drug exposure, but wasn't showing signs of withdrawal.

Katie took him home and decided to call him Grayson and for the next 11 months, she looked after the youngster as care workers searched for his biological parents.

She said: "No one answered the ad posted in the newspaper or came back to the hospital in search of the boy."

So on the day he turned 11 months, the adoption became official and Grayson became her son.

But less than two weeks after, Katie received a call from her caseworker asking if she could help out with another four-day-old baby, this time a girl.

Just like Grayson, this child had drug exposure and she'd been abandoned at the same hospital - something about these things made the single mum say yes to fostering her.

She said: "Something was different about this one. 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."

When the baby girl was dropped off at her house, Katie immediately noticed something odd.

She said: "As I reviewed the bracelets on the baby girl, I saw the first name of her mother matched the name Grayson's mother had given at the hospital.

"I continued to review the discharge papers from the hospital and when I came across the date of birth for the mother, I had to take a second look. It looked familiar."

After finding Grayson's paperwork she compared the two and began wondering if the two children could have the same birth mother.

She texted her caseworker to ask if it was possible - but they thought she was crazy.

However, this time authorities were able to track down the abandoned baby girl's mother and Katie soon realised that she wasn't crazy after all.

The woman, who was pregnant once again, confirmed that she'd had one more child than social workers were aware of - a little boy that didn't live with her.

And Katie couldn't help but notice the woman shared a strikingly resemblance to Grayson.

The next week, Katie had the caseworker meet with the mother as well and shortly after the encounter her suspicions were confirmed.

Her phone rang - it was her caseworker.

"Katie, I think you're right," she told her. "Her story breaks my heart and I can't believe it but I am 90 percent sure you're right and this is a miracle."

Forty-five minutes later her phone rang again and Katie's caseworker confirmed her suspicions 100 percent.

Katie said the news overwhelmed her with emotion and shortly afterwards she adopted the baby girl, who she had named Hannah, and now describes the two children as being "partners in crime".

Shortly after Hannah turned one, her birth mother gave birth to a second son.

Katie began fostering the third child since his birth and recently formerly adopted him, naming him Jackson.

Since adopting her three children, Katie has discovered that they have three older biological sisters who have been adopted by another couple.

The families regularly meet up in order to allow the five children to grow up together.

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