tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42194766524267566392024-02-08T10:08:18.611-08:00Baby Dreams ... From India with Love!Surrogacy India, with Love!
Our beautiful baby!
Our Journey through Surrogacy with Dr. Nayna Patel.Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-35151598891014118412010-10-04T16:18:00.000-07:002010-10-04T17:20:13.977-07:00The Clock is Ticking.....(August 10, 2008)Well, the clock is ticking sweet child, and time is moving swiftly as we await your arrival! I received a letter from a couple who we've become very close to, and a wealth of information and research for each other! It's funny because we've taken this journey together, and yet we've never even met! Your father and I started this journey so long ago, Dr. Patel's first Canadian Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-71265320781317862472010-02-21T15:40:00.000-08:002010-02-21T17:15:14.550-08:00Soon Baby, Soon!(Sunday, August 10, 2008)
Well Sweetipie, Momma was planning on flying in to be with you early! To bond with you! To feel you, feel you kick, and sing my special lullaby to you! Play your siblings music box to you! Momma's coming baby doll ... soon!
I was hoping to come to you early, to have you hear my voice! I have been told that S doesn't want that! Even though we got her a cellphone, and Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-14139759643725198532009-10-27T20:44:00.000-07:002009-10-27T21:14:43.339-07:00Siblings Birthday Luck!(July 31, 2008)Well Baby Doll, we're heading around the bend, or over the hump as they say! Or your cute baby bump! We celebrated your Sibling's birthday yesterday, and I think that brought you some good luck! Fabulous news!We saw your scan today and everything is just fine! YaaY!!!!Your beautiful heart rate was 150 BPM. Renal Pylectasis is extremely dominant in little boys. Your Dad and I are Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-66868564571635859282009-10-27T14:40:00.000-07:002009-10-27T19:44:16.562-07:00Money is NO Object..Baby--Priceless!(July 21, 2008)Prior to leaving for Anand, we received an email asking if we would like to pay $125 USD for a Baby Shower for our Surrogate. This kind of hit us like a bomb. I am NOT proud of how we reacted to this request, but such is life. You cannot turn back time, only place a positive where there was a negative..a Big Boo Boo on our part!The following is the email we received!Hello,I want toBaby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-38435436350774742442009-08-07T12:34:00.000-07:002009-08-07T13:47:02.892-07:00Getting Ready for Reality!(July 17, 2008)Well, our sweet child, your Mom & Dad are getting prepared to come to India for your delivery. I am planning on flying in earlier then your Father to bond with you.I have your brother's music box to play repeatedly for you. I have my special little lullaby that I used to sing to your siblings that would amazingly calm them. Your suitcase is packed..mine isn't ..lol.Hopefully Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-85331375372250277662009-07-13T19:56:00.000-07:002009-08-07T12:29:01.452-07:00Scanned again!(June 13, 2008)After these scans I emailed Dr. Patel and even spoke to the Doctor who does the Sonograms about your conditon. They both reasurred me that you were fine. Everything else is good, and your beautiful little heartbeat is at 148 bpm. However, I am still researching this, little one.Hello,S is fine & staying at surrogate house Nadiad with Nirmala nurse.Mild pelviccetesis of kidney Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-20176726123566298812009-06-27T12:19:00.001-07:002009-06-27T13:25:00.515-07:00A Whole New Story!(June 12, 2008)Well May was GREAT! No news is good news...right?On June 11th you had another ultrasound scan done. We received it on June 12th. All was good on it until I read the bottom..."the comment" box.Mild Pelviectesis of left kidney noted.Follow up at 34 weeks.Something gutwrenching hit my stomach. Mild Pelviectasis!All I could see was something wrong with your kidney. Fluid on the pelvis Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-68466465415233624122009-06-27T10:13:00.000-07:002009-06-27T10:22:36.471-07:00Smooth Sailing!(May, 2008)Well my sweet child, May has been pretty uneventful. YaaY!You are growing like a bad weed..lol..and Doctor Patel says that you are a big baby. I've always had big babies..so you are my typical whopper. Usually between 8.5 and 10 pounds. They say each baby is bigger then the last, so you should be a nice big dumpling. I can't wait to hold you in my arms.I Love You So!Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-16594210497832163992009-06-26T15:47:00.000-07:002009-06-27T09:22:00.704-07:00You had me at Hello!(April, 2008)We used to go crazy waiting for news of you, and our surrogate. Sometime's it just didn't seem real, especially since we lost your twin. It was so odd! Unreal, like I was in a fog. It was like after we lost your twin that our pregnancy was gone! It was like for a split second we would forget we were still pregnant. That you were growing strong in her womb, when it should have been Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-40738881358545859882009-06-17T14:20:00.000-07:002009-06-17T15:34:40.504-07:00Didn't Kiss & TellWe decided early on in our pregnancy that we were not going to tell anyone that we were pregnant until the three month mark.What a mistake! I would never do that again. It robs you of your pregnancy, your fun, your bragging rights, most of all if something goes wrong with your pregnancy..if you lose your pregnancy. It's like it never existed. It's like your child never existed! This is so wrong Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-73483710359600338112009-06-14T21:34:00.000-07:002009-06-16T12:19:33.722-07:00Our First Ultrasound Scan.(February 25/08)After another endless two week wait we got an email from Dr. Patel.February 22/08... Our ultrasound scan was in. It's TWINS, TWINS, TWINS...we were ecstatic..two beautiful babies coming.The following is the email we received from Dr. Patel.Hello,S & the twins are doing fine. scan report attatched. find out.You donot need to send the money in S's account as for that money we Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-22362024307446362682009-05-31T16:59:00.001-07:002009-06-17T15:48:53.996-07:00Back in the Saddle(January, 2008)We were settled with the fact that we were done with surrogacy, and as we stated previously had written and thanked Dr. Patel for everything..and that was it in our minds. It was over! About a week later we got an email from Dr. Patel asking us how we were doing, and that she could prepare us for another cycle in January. Your Father and I were really unsettled this time...maybe Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-36592947856651978742009-05-26T10:36:00.000-07:002009-05-31T16:58:17.530-07:00Let's Get the Ball Rolling!(November, 2007)Well we're here! We've been instructed on all medical procedures, what we are supposed to be doing. Can do, can't do, and when we are to do it! So let's get the ball rolling!I can honestly tell you that this was extremely stressful for your Dad and I. We followed Dr. Patel's protocol and now was the infamous wait for our embryo's to grow!To see how many would survive and be ready Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-73750855722256237382009-05-26T10:05:00.000-07:002009-05-26T10:29:08.269-07:00Meeting the Patel's(November, 2007)Well Sweetheart, we met Dr. Nayna & Dr. Hitesh Patel today.What a wonderful couple they are! We lingered around Dr. Hitesh's office most of the day getting paperwork finished and just chatting. Your Father is quite the gabber and had a great time with Hitesh...me too! They even took your Father and I to their home in Anand for drinks. How kind of them to do this.Since we Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-78097602505267903842009-05-23T13:28:00.000-07:002009-05-24T21:02:08.715-07:00Getting to Dr. Patel(November, 2007)We flew into Ahmedabad with Jet Airways, a short comfortable flight after an incredible six hour flight with British Airways..we made to London an hour earlier than scheduled. We were thrilled. I Love British Airways!Anyway, after hours of long flights we settled very comfortably into Le Royal Meridien, Ahmedabad. We crashed for hours, both your Dad and I were just exhausted. We Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-20914014764561169602009-05-05T14:04:00.000-07:002009-05-05T19:35:53.702-07:00http://feedjit.com/joinimg/Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-59118990056866266002009-05-05T13:49:00.000-07:002009-05-05T19:35:53.705-07:00Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-67439089383389093252009-05-05T12:11:00.000-07:002009-05-05T12:20:59.668-07:00Baby's First Photo'sMake a Smilebox slideshow
Baby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219476652426756639.post-86146844029253231172009-05-02T18:03:00.000-07:002009-05-23T13:24:35.582-07:00Canadian Surrogacy Pioneers..From India with LoveCanadian Pioneers in Surrogacy, India. (August, 2007)Wow, if someone had told me a few years ago that hubby and I would be travelling to India for a child via Surrogate Mother..I would have said, "are you NUTS?".First of all, I'm a FERTILE MERTILE!..or I was until my Doctor discovered some abnormal cells on my cervix. I thought..no,no,no..not me! Cervical Cancer...What? I remember my legs shakingBaby Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02419665654949793630noreply@blogger.com2