{"id":14075,"date":"2026-04-12T09:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=14075"},"modified":"2026-04-12T09:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:41:22","slug":"we-adopted-a-3-year-old-boy-but-when-my-husband-bathed-him-for-the-first-time-he-yelled-we-must-return-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=14075","title":{"rendered":"We Adopted a 3-Year-Old Boy \u2014 But When My Husband Bathed Him for the First Time, He Yelled, \u2018We Must Return Him!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura and Caleb, unable to conceive, adopted a 3-year-old boy named Tommy and quickly fell in love with him.<\/p>\n<p>One night, Caleb noticed a crescent-shaped birthmark on Tommy\u2019s foot\u2014the same mark his biological son had years ago, a child he never met after being given up for adoption.<\/p>\n<p>After contacting the agency, a DNA test confirmed it: Tommy was Caleb\u2019s biological son. A clerical error had kept them from knowing.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the shock, nothing changed\u2014they were already his parents. The discovery only deepened their bond, turning their adoption into an unexpected reunion.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, they realized Tommy wasn\u2019t just adopted\u2014he had found his way back to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Laura and Caleb, unable to conceive, adopted a 3-year-old boy named Tommy and quickly fell in love with him. One night, Caleb noticed a crescent-shaped <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=14075\" title=\"We Adopted a 3-Year-Old Boy \u2014 But When My Husband Bathed Him for the First Time, He Yelled, \u2018We Must Return Him!\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14077,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075\/revisions\/14077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}