Santa Rosa Police, Officer Jason Whitten, 33, responded to a 911 call from a woman who said she needed a home for her unborn baby. The Whitten told “Good Morning America” that the woman was suffering from drug addiction. Whitten, who is also dad to Reese, 7, Kendall, 5 and Stella, 3, said he met the biological mother of baby Harlow last Spring while she was pregnant with the child. The woman was suffering from a drug addiction.

“Like a lot of people I’ve talked to, I heard about her life and her story,” Whitten explained. “I knew her [other] two children from the camp I had worked at for foster youth. When she started talking about them, I had an immediate connection with her just by knowing who her wonderful children were.”

The officer stated that he drove the pregnant woman to a rehab facility, and she asked Whitten if he wanted to adopt her baby. He said wasn’t sure if she was serious. In February, the woman gave birth but wasn’t clean. The baby girl had heroin in her system when she was born, and the county asked the woman if she wanted to place her daughter in foster care. She told officials to contact Whitten.

“She said: ‘I knew you had daughters. I knew you were firm, but you were fair,'” Whitten remembers. “She had this vision of her daughters playing in tutus with her sisters. That’s what she said she wanted.”

On Aug. 30, the Whitten family officially adopted the baby girl and named her Harlow Maisey Whitten. The little girl now has three older sisters. “I fell in love right away,” Whitten told “Good Morning America” about his new daughter, Harlow, who is now 7 months old. “She’s so adorable. She will cry if she needs something, obviously as babies do, but as soon as we would touch her, she’d immediately stop crying. She knew right away that she was safe.”

The police department congratulated Whitten in a Facebook post.