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M: We began getting to know her more and more. As she's married, we met her husband and then introduced Katie (Wes’s daughter) to her children. We maintained an excellent relationship and it was apparent that we ‘matched’ in terms of our needs and our friendship. We then spoke to a clinic close to where our surrogate ‘C’ lived, which was in Manchester, and we made an appointment to start the process. There’s a tonne of tests in the beginning and a number of counselling sessions for all involved, which is obviously good and needed, the UK is highly regulated, which is another good point about UK Surrogacy. As I was going to be the biological father, we asked the clinic to find us an egg donor that matched Wes’s characteristics (blonde, blue and fair), the total opposite of me!
W: Four months later they found us the perfect egg donor and before we knew it about 10 months had passed and we were ready to begin treatment. We continued meeting C and her family and the relationship continued to grow.
M: In late January 2016 our eggs were retrieved from the donor, C had been taking the appropriate hormones and our eggs were then fertilised. We were lucky enough to fertilise all our eggs so we froze what we didn’t need at the time and we transferred one Blastocyst (a five-day old embryo) into C on the 13th February 2016. An agonising two week wait followed. Thankfully, we got
the result everyone hopes for. It worked. We were pregnant.
W: A straightforward pregnancy followed and then at 38 weeks C’s waters broke and Talulah was born by elected C-Section weighing a healthy 8lb, at exactly 6am on the 16th October.
How did it feel to hold your gorgeous little daughter Talulah for the first time? M: Talulah’s birth was the best experience of my life. As Intended Parents via Surrogacy you may have to make sacrifices along the way due to the current surrogacy law and inadequate NHS policies for some trusts. During our entire pregnancy our surrogate opted for a C-Section for medical reasons. From the beginning of our pregnancy it was a given that for the procedure her husband would be with her in theatre and not us, comforting her and ensuring she was calm. It was the right thing to do. However, just at the eleventh hour, her husband ran into our side ward and told us to get some theatre scrubs on, as we could watch our child being born. We threw on a mismatch of scrubs and ran into theatre. We watched the entire operation and saw our daughter, Talulah enter the world at 6am. Tears streamed down all our faces, it was the best day of our life together. Holding her and seeing her gaze into our eyes was incredible, the intensity of the bond and the way she ‘imprinted’ on us was immediate. I’ve never experienced love and a feeling like it ever.
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