Becoming Daddy and Papa

Jonathan and Thomas West share their story of hope, loss, and becoming the parents they were always meant to be.

“The best things in life are usually the hardest to accomplish,” says the statement flowing across Jonathan and Thomas West’s widely viewed Instagram reel. Their journey to becoming parents has embodied these words and although they are now fathers of four adopted children, the path has been riddled with obstacles.

Daddy, Papa, Grace, Charlotte, Eleanor and Henry on Christmas morning 2022.

The couple, who met in 2005 and were married in 2012, was bitten by the parenting bug after attending a friend’s wedding in 2013. “We had an amazing time. The atmosphere of family and tradition was so strong that we knew it was something we really wanted,” says Jonathan.

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