Baby Girl Ford

My brother and sister-in-law are expecting an adopted newborn in January. A baby girl that they’ve been wishing and trying to have for several years. They hate asking for help, so I’ve taken it upon myself to ask. I took this excerpt from my brother’s Facebook post from when they announced.

“So many of you might know, some may not at all, but I am going to give a some history into our trials and tribulations with trying to have a baby.

Samantha and I found out we were pregnant in July of 2013. We were very excited after trying for 2 years! We were getting ready to tell our families when tragedy struck. On July 19th, 2013, my beloved Nephews Nic and Jesse Bullock had accidentally drowned while swimming. It was the worst day of our lives. There was no way we could even feel good about telling our families. The stress was immense. Due to the stress, we had a miscarriage and were in the hospital for 4 days because they thought it might have been ectopic. We picked our heads up and kept trying.


The next 7 years was going to fertility specialists, fertility medicines, dye tests to see tubes, procedures to unblock tubes, many ovulation tests, keeping track of dates, and lots of nights in the hospital with very painful ovarian cyst ruptures. Due to us getting older, losing hope, and the constant ruptured cysts, we had decided to start talking to the doctor about maybe getting a hysterectomy to stop them from forming and causing so much pain. He urged us to try for 6 more months. 3 months later, in January 2020, we found out we were pregnant again! We were so excited and asked everyone for prayers. Unfortunately, it wasn't mean't to be. On February 20th, Sammy's birthday, we woke up to her having intense pain and bleeding. I rushed her to Iowa City where she immediately went into surgery. The egg had fertilized and latched onto Sam's tube rather than in the uterus. It then ruptured and exploded her tube. They had to remove everything but one tube and one ovary. The one that is in the worst shape survived and her best one didn't. It was devastating. It put us into a depression and shit just had a dark cloud over it for awhile. However, we were thankful to have Blazyn and Samantha has always been a mom to him.


About 3 months ago we had a girl we know approach us with something we thought only angels could bring. She has two kids currently and is trying to get her life straight. She wants to get some education, a job, and a place to call home for her and her two beautiful kids. Unexpectedly, she got pregnant again after just having her son 6 months prior. She instantly thought of us. After speaking with the Father, whom also knows us, they thought it would be a wonderful gift to present us with the opportunity to adopt. We of course said Yes!!!!

The past three months have been exciting, stressful, and overwhelmingly awesome! Due to Covid-19 only one of us can go with to the doctors appointments. Since I have had these experiences with Blazyn, I wanted Sam to be the one to go and get to have her own experiences. So *the mother of the baby* and Her have been doing that and everything is going great! Baby is healthy. We got ultrasound pictures. Heard the heart beat, which Sam video taped for me. Currently, we are just filing the paperwork needed for everything to be legalized. We are so thankful to have this opportunity! As many of you know, I was left at a daycare at the age of 9 months. After going to foster care I got adopted by my wonderful family. It has always been a dream of mine personally to be able to do the same for a child, show it the love, give them support, and opportunity, that my family did for me. We are super excited and she has been nothing but great about everything.

We will love this baby like he/she was our own. Just like my family did for me. We will give he/she every opportunity we can. We will give he/she all of the support they could need. We promise! “

Corey and Sam are two of the best parents I know. They’ve done an exceptional job at raising my nephew, helping raise my little brother, and being role models and assisting with raising many kids in the community.



With this baby, there are legal procedures that have to happen. They will be incurring expenses greater than expected. $6,000 or more than expected. These two deserve a baby. They deserve to parent a baby together. For those of you who don’t know, my nephew is Sam’s child by choice but not by birth. She has wanted a child of her own so badly for so long, especially a baby girl.   If you can find it in your heart to make a donation, no matter how small, it would help so much. My brother and sister-in-law are the FIRST to give and the LAST to ask for help. So this is going to be hard for them to accept, but I’m asking because they need and deserve the help. They’ve given so much to their community and I’m hoping some of you will be able to give back!


I’m asking for a goal of 10k to be sure their legal expenses can be covered as things like this always end up costing more than planned.