Entering week 28

Some day ago we entered the third trimester. We did it with a bit of a scare, we had an emergencyscan because our surrogate had some abdominal pain.

According to the doctors and Dr Shivani there were no premature labor contractions but some stretching pains.  Both babies are doing fine, twin 1 weight 936 g and twin 2, 884 g. The other figures are very similar so they seem to be growing well together. They have decided to move around a bit, one is in breech presentation and the other is in cephalic presentation.

I am trying to book an apartment and we have decided to stay at an apartment in Kalkaji. Hopefully there will be some more IP´s there at the same time? I will book it from July 1 to August 1. If someone is going to be in India at the same time, please let me know. It would be great meeting some "new friends".

Alwina is doing great. Today has been a great day in our nearest swimminghall. She loves being in water and she isn´t a bit scared. One girl running around and a worried father one step behind. There isn´t much time to relax...

It is nice reading about success and newly born babies and it is sad reading about loss and embryos that doesn´t stick. To all of you, be persistant, your time will come and it will be perfect.

We are doing great.

Alwina is growing and our babies in India are growing as well. We recently entered week 21 and we got some lovely pics some days ago. We are having aliens!!!

We had some difficulties some weeks ago and our surrogate was in hospital for a week. She had some bleedings and she has been recommended staying in bed. Poor Mrs A. We havn´t heard anything for a week so hopefully she is doing better otherwise we should have been told. It isn´t easy being so far away hearing that your beloved ones are in trouble. Now we are keeping our fingers crossed that the rest of the pregnancy goes smoothly.

Alwina is in preschool and she enjoys it very much. We are having a crying child everyday when we pick her up. I guess it is a positive thing that she likes it there. Since she started she has become a bit different. She is awake a couple of times every night and she is SO tired in the evenings. But, she is still letting us sleep most of the nights. That is the thing I don´t like about having small children, not being able to sleep!!!

Some lovely pics

An update from a happy family

It´s been a while, sorry.

Life in Sweden is great. One happy family.

Alwina is doing great but she has been having a cold for some days now. Both of us is now working and studying so Alwina has started preschool and she is enjoying it very much. She has become a big girl now, 17 months. She is all over our house and there are toys everywhere!!! Before Alwina we had our house proper and each thing had it place. We have more and more started to be relaxed with the feeling that our house can be in a mess...

She is talking a lot and she loves to swim, being outdoors in the snow, playing with lego, cuddling with our cats and much more.

Two weeks ago we got an update from India. Our pregnancy is going well (fingers crossed). There were three embies growing inside our lovely surrogate so there has been a successful reduction made. Today our twins are entering week 16. We are waiting for our next update and it should be made in two weeks. Loooooong time. But, as said before, no news are good news.

Wishing everybody good luck with your upcoming events.

Heartbeats - not heartbeat

Yes, the titel is correct.

Our six week scan came today and it showes two well defined gestional sacs containing live embryos. Heartrate 108 & 112.

If everything goes well, crossing my fingers, Alwina will have not one but two siblings in summertime next year.

There is so much going on in our lives right now and it is so exiting. Alwina is a wonderful child and for her to have siblings will be wonderful. I am absolutely sure that she will make a great sister. She is all around these days. She is walking, talking, laughing, crying and more and more she has a will of her own. One of us is still at home with her but next year she will attend a preschool for 25 hours/week.

We have to consider some lifechanging projects ahead, if things moves per schedule. Our house is to small for a family of six. Yes six, we have a five year old boy living with us in fostercare but he is more and more living with his mother. It is sad but at the same time we feel joy that his biological family is getting stronger and stronger.

So, for know, we wait, and wait and...

Good luck to everybody out there in the surrogacyworld. It is very nice hearing progress and very sad to read about failure. Be strong!

So, here we go again

We are doing it again and so far so good.

Letter from the clinic from earlier today:

We would like to inform you that as per our schedule we have done pregnancy test for XXXXX.

We are very happy to inform you that the value is 179.43, which is very good. Kindly find the attached report for the same.

We would like to congratulate you as you are pregnant now.

We now look forward to see you after nine months along with your baby.

First time for a short movie

Ok, here is my first effort to put a short movie on the blog. If it works there might be more.
Everything is just great. Alwina is growing a lot and she talks a lot. She doesn´t walk by herself yet and everybody says that we should be happy for that!!! But, we are longing for the moment anyway.
She is eating a lot now and there isn´t much food that she doesn´t like. She is gaining weight and I guess she is about 10 kg now.
Photos another day.

Alwina, 1 year

Alwina is eating carrots. We usually do this before bathing...



Alwinas first Pride-festival in Stockholm, beginning of August.

One year old. The lovely cloths is from Shilpi, thank you.

See, my teeths.

Time goes by so quickly. I am ashamed that I haven´t written more frequen but there aren´t that much time...

Some days ago our beloved daughter turned one year old. She is the sunshine in our lives and she can make a grey day bright.

She is all around the house but she doesn´t walk by herselft yet. She has two small teeths and she can say some words. The first one was "ks" that is "kisse" - cat. Then she said vov and by that she means my mothers dog. Maybe there is a vet born in India a year ago? Posting some recent photos.