About the intended parents
I am 42 and my partner is 36. We are both successful people in our careers. I am a business analyst and my partner is an engineer. We have been together for 6 years now and both have the desire to become parents again. We live on a small holding with 4 horses and 5 dogs – not to mention the fish. We enjoy traveling to off the beaten track places. Not your stereotypical gay couple at all. Very grounded in our belief system. We try at all times to be fair and honest towards the people we deal with.
Personal message
How does one even begin to write a letter like this. This is not the first time that we are going through the surrogacy process. Six months ago, the surrogate that we had, went into early labour with our twins – our son and daughter. Sadly our son lived for a mere 15 minutes and our daughter for 7 days. It was the proudest yet saddest moment of our lives. We had prayed and hoped that our little girl would pull through, as if the loss of our son was not enough, on the 7th day, we were forced to turn off her life support machines as she had developed a level 4 bleeding on the brain and this meant that there was no neurological function – what does one do? I still shudder at the thought, but we could not let our daughter suffer any longer. It has been a very difficult 6 months for us, but even with our loss, we still have the desire to be parents again. We know how huge this decision must be for any woman to make and your reason/s for participating in such a program will be respected at all times from our side. We only ask that we have an open and honest relationship from the very start and in so doing we will ensure that all our commitments are met towards the surrogate mother. I am a business analyst and my partner is an engineer. We have been together for 6 years and finally tied the knot 18 months ago. We are both stable down to earth guys. We try to get out of the maddening crowd as often as possible and prefer traveling to off the beaten track places to re-charge our batteries. I am English speaking but am also fluent in German, Pierre is Afrikaans speaking. We have an amazing family and friend support structure and without them, the past 6 months would have been so much harder to deal with. We are fully aware of the fact that we cannot replace our children and this second attempt in no way implies that we are replacing them! The desire to be parents again is as strong as it was when we initially started this process. We also want to thank you for this is a gift of life that means so much to us.
