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Bringing Up Bates’ Brandon and Michaela Keilen Are Foster Parents

Bringing Up Bates’ Michaela and Brandon Keilen share their experience fostering two children and becoming a family of four overnight

“We have two little boys now — a 3-year-old and a newborn — and we don’t know what the future holds here but we’re taking it a day at a time and enjoying the foster experience,” Brandon shared in the video posted Saturday, May 24. “Fostering is tender and complex, beautiful and broken, heartbreaking and healing,” Brandon and Michaela wrote in a joint statement via Instagram on Sunday, May 25. The statement continued, “We know they’re away from everything familiar, and we feel deeply honored to be part of their healing and to show them they are treasured, and to love them with all we have.

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