Sunday, September 1, 2013

Meet the Parents


Due to technical difficulties with blogger, I have been asked to share this blog post from the intended parents. Hopefully this is just the first of many to come. Enjoy!


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We have been keeping a low profile as really Morgan is the star here....but now that "we" are officially pregnant, we can't control our excitement as IPs any longer. So how did we get here... five years ago we took a career break and travelled the world for a year and half. We had time to reflect and time to plan for our future away from the pressures of work and the daily grind. On a garden square in New York we got engaged and on a beach in Koh Samui we decided to explore growing our family. 

Fast forward through the rest of our travels, setting up a new business, buying a new home and researching surrogate options, we eventually met up with Circle and started the process that brought us to the news of being officially pregnant yesterday.

Once we had filled in the interminable paperwork and sought to understand how the journey would proceed, we got to the great bits...matching with our wonderful egg donor and our amazing surrogate. The matching was intuitive and we felt an immediate connection between ourselves and the two wonderful women who have helped us get this far. Words can't really explain how lucky we feel to have meet and been accepted by them. It was a nervous wait to see if they were willing to help us and it still is difficult to express how generous they have been to make it possible to arrive at this point.

Seeing the ultrasound yesterday and hearing the heartbeat was astounding. It brought tears to our mother's eyes and the still photo has been safely lodged in our wallets. There's a long journey still to go...Morgan has morning sickness, raging hormones, tiredness and more pills to take...we have to wait till our lives get turned upside down. I know we have the best of that deal but despite being an ocean away we are with her all the way.

Michael and Jason

9 comments:

  1. Congrats to you guys! I hope these months fly by!!

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  2. Aww! Congrats to everyone. Morgan is a rockstar:)

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  3. Love love love, what a cute post. Congratulations to all of you and wishing you an uneventful journey with only good things involved!!

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  4. I am so proud of Morgan for sharing her oven and bringing such hope and joy to your lives. Morgan's Aunt Nikki

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  5. What an amazing blog post. CONGRATS :)

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  6. Congratulations to you all! Such a blessing all around!

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  7. very, very excited about this journey for Michael and Jason. Morgan sounds like an amazing person and I am loving the blog. Can't wait to meet the Easter bunny.
    Clodagh

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  8. So proud of my daughter,Morgan, for her selfless journey. I have traveled with Morgan to Conn., for the big day and got to meet Michael and Jason via scip. They are truly a great couple, and so good to Morgan. So, congrats to all!

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