YouTuber Myka Stauffer beforehand mentioned she would ‘never give up’ on her son Huxley, in videos shared earlier than the kid was ‘rehomed’.
The American vlogger has sparked outrage by confirming that her and husband James’s four-year-old son, who they adopted from China two years in the past, was now with a brand new ‘forever’ family as they struggled to deal with his behavioural points.
Huxley had a stroke in utero and has autism and sensory processing dysfunction, with Myka and James initially being advised he had a brain tumour earlier than adopting him.
In videos shared to Stauffer’s YouTube channel, Myka, 32, mentioned her adoption journey in addition to Huxley’s progress once they introduced him house, and in a now unlisted video from October 2018 entitled ‘Huxley’s Emotional First Year Home Post China Adoption’, she mentioned: ‘Welcome to your forever family, a family that will never give up on you.
‘Not every day was perfect. We’ve went via some ups and downs and skilled some very, very onerous days. But don’t fear, we’re not giving up now and we’re not giving up ever.’
Not all of Stauffer’s Huxley-centric videos have been sponsored, however her three and 5 month adoption replace videos included a hyperlink to Young Living important oil products.
And a video shared in June 2018 known as ‘5 Things I Didn’t EXPECT About Our China ADOPTION! International ADOPTION’ was sponsored by child detergent Dreft, and featured a prolonged speech from Myka on why she appreciated utilizing Dreft for Huxley.
In this video, Stauffer mentioned that she had heard of families that didn't finalise on Chinese adoptions because of the kids having developmental delays, and mentioned that whereas she initially didn’t understand, she admitted that the delays might be ‘a little bit scary’ if you didn’t know what they looked like.
The vlogger, who additionally has 4 biological kids together with an 11-month-old son named Onyx, additionally mentioned that earlier than the adoption, she had imagined Huxley as a ‘shy, sweet little, this shy little guy who just wants to be cuddled’, earlier than saying he was a very different particular person.
However, she mentioned: ‘I wouldn’t change our path for anything. I wouldn’t trade children, I wouldn’t do anything, that's my son via and thru.’
And in a two-year replacement for her son, Myka detailed how he had been progressing with ABA therapy, and that he had realized 40 indicators to speak his needs.
She mentioned: ‘He’s been house for, like I mentioned, nearly two years and I don’t know what I might do with out Huxley. We have hard days, we do, not on daily basis is easy when you will have a kiddo that has so many needs and wishes and desires to be heard on a regular basis and is strong-willed. You have communication struggles and a few days are simply onerous.
‘One thing that’s modified this yr greater than ever is I really feel like our connection as a family has gotten so profoundly wonderful. Huxley is well one among my favorite people in the whole world once I’m having a bad day or when one thing shouldn't be going proper, Huxley all the time makes everybody really feel better. Like you simply can’t smile, I believe you just can’t get pleasure from his presence.
‘Like I said not everything is perfect and we do have a good meltdown and a good tantrum of every single day, like we do, it’s the actual fact however that's my baby boy and like this yr particularly has confirmed me that God meant for Huxley to be mine, 100%.
‘Huxley is my son through and through he’s my baby boy and I'm so glad he's a part of our family. I couldn’t do my day with out him. Like I mentioned not on daily basis is ideal, there’s some days that I’m in tears and I’m wondering am I doing it proper or am I placing him too much on Youtube, I fear about like 500 bajillion things however on the finish of the day he’s mine, he’s supposed to mine. And I’m so grateful, I’m so grateful for adoption.’
In addition to plenty of sponsored videos, Huxley featured in a number of sponsored posts on Instagram, together with one for Dreft and one other for a brand of bread.
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