Mother’s Day 2013

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Mother's Day 2013Mother’s Day 2013 will be a day that I will remember with fondness for the rest of my days. My daughter, Jenny, is celebrating her first Mother’s Day this year! As moms, we do our best to prepare our children to not just survive but to thrive in the world we live in today. Between seeing to their education, making sure they stay healthy and doing our best to making them happy too, you don’t realize that really what you are doing is setting an example for them. It occurred to me that I was not only preparing Jenny for her life, but for the lives she will be responsible for now and in the future. I am proud to be a Mom and now I am a proud Grandma. Thanks Jenny for bringing Genevieve into our lives. And may you enjoy motherhood as much as I do!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful women who have parented their own children and guided others who needed them. My deepest respect to all of the Surrogate Mothers who not only took on the responsibility of parenting, but decided to open their hearts to help Couples achieve their dream of parenthood. May God Bless You All!!

Carol

What is Your Favorite Mother’s Day Gift?

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What is Your Favorite Mother's Day Gift?

We asked our BFI staff to share their favorite Mother’s Day gifts. Here’s what they said!

Carol:
My favorite gifts were items the kids made when they were young. I remember Johnny making me a macaroni necklace with so many crazy colors but I wore it because it made him so proud. I had to stop wearing it as it was starting to fall apart, so I put it in a safe place. Jenny made a ceramic handprint that still sits on my dresser. Gosh, how time flies!

Breann:
I appreciate the thought behind every gift, of course, but I especially like to see how excited my kids get when they are watching me open the gifts painstakingly slow. And now that they are getting older, I have to say the gifts are quite remarkable….definitely things that I want. I would like to say that they are actually paying attention, but….LOL.

Tracy:
My idea of a wonderful Mother’s Day Gift is my kids doing something for me like cooking a meal or even cleaning the bathroom! I truly appreciate the effort.

Natalia:
Although I am not yet a mommy, I have a great mother whom I have showered with a special gift every year for as long as I can remember. I think one of the best presents I gave my mom was a picture frame that I decorated by hand with a picture of us two. I love giving gifts that can be treasured all year, not just for one specific holiday or event. It’s important to me that my mom know how wonderful she is, every day.

Randi:
Although cliche, I love the handmade gifts from my boys! The time has come this year that I will no longer receive the gifts they make in the classroom. So, I will save them and when they get older, I will bring them back out so they can see the cutesy things they did for me! So, now, I would have have to say that anything my boys pick out for me will mean the world to me and I know will melt my heart!

What is your favorite Mother’s Day gift? Share with us!

How to Tell Your Child Their Sibling is Coming… From Someone Else

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One thing we can all agree on is that adults make most things more complicated than they need to be. If only we could maintain the easy acceptance our children have to situations. I asked two Couples how they explained their surrogacy arrangement to their children and here are their responses:

J&J already had a child, Tommy, but needed help having little Tommy’s sibling. In school, Tommy was learning how birds build nests for their eggs and their newborns so J&J saw this as an excellent opportunity to explain how Tommy’s brother would be arriving. They explained how mommy’s tummy was like a nest but it wasn’t warm enough to grow an egg so they needed the help of another mommy’s nest. And their special friend, Sarah, offered to share her nest and is keeping Tommy’s little brother safe and warm until it is time for him to be born.

Another Couple, A&D, decided that they would share their twins’ stories with them from birth. They created an album showcasing photos of when they first met their Surrogate Mother, Suzy, all the way to the day they came home from the hospital. Each night before bedtime, they took turns reading the album and they found that by the time their children began sitting in their lap and turning the pages themselves that the story became a natural event and one they came to enjoy sharing each night. Initially, they were concerned that their children would not react well to the news but saw that they actually felt the same way that their parents did….excited!! They say that the “practice” of telling the story almost nightly for nearly a year helped a lot.

Thanks for sharing J&J and A&D!!!!

Mother’s Day

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Mother's Day

Mother’s Day is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate all of the mothers in the world! As all of our Surrogate Moms know, including Carol & I, being a mother is a blessing. And it is a blessing that we want to share with women who need our help to reach the ultimate goal of motherhood.

Join us this week in honoring the countless Surrogate Mothers here at BFI and in the world who have made the commitment to help someone in this tremendous way. And take a moment to appreciate all the moms you know, especially your own, while you are fortunate enough to still have them in your life. – Breann

Francesca’s Surrogacy Story

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The mom of this new baby girl said she had dreamed of her for more years than she can remember.  Obviously she never imagined that she would need help to have her family, but she told us that having met Francesca and her family only made it more special.  Our little Francesca gave birth on March 25, 2013 to a beautiful baby girl weighing a whopping 9lb 15oz.

 

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