Hello March

Hello March. Apparently summer finished for us a while back yet we have just had a record breaking 9 days of over 30. It is really funny to think that us Melbournians piss and moan about Melbournes constantly changing weather, yet when we get consistent sun shine we continue to piss and moan it's too hot. Hahahahahahahaha.

Well as it stands we should be about the 20-21 weeks into the pregnancy. Still very much a surreal feeling but still very exciting. We have made a tentative booking for our accomodation for when we return to Delhi. We are really looking forward to enjoying a great break of a month or so and meeting new and old friends.

As they say "no news is good news" and we are lacking in news to share. I imagine we are going to have to start planning for our holiday in Delhi amongst other things.

Well just a short update for now. More to follow very soon

Xxxx C and T

Almost 18 weeks

To think about how long 18 weeks (126 days) actually is, it sounds like such a long time, but it feels like just yesterday we were in Delhi in search of our dream, yet we are 18 weeks pregnant. YAY

Its funny really because to begin with we would write blog posts weekly or at least several times per month. now that we are pregnant we say to each other "when we get the next scan" we will write a blog post, so this time i thought i better.

We received our first of the monthly scans yesterday.

 All seems to be well and nothing to be concerned about which is great. We both cant wait to head back to Delhi again, we really enjoyed our time there and are looking forward to experiencing more of the culture. We met so many people in Delhi, it really made the trip so worthwhile.

What makes this even more exciting for us, is the new friends we met in Delhi that are from Sydney, are pregnant just 1 day behind us. We are very happy for them and even happier that we will share this experience with them.

In other news we have finally set up our new home for our business. The plan was that by the end of 2013 we would have the 2 companies operating independently of one another, however the opportunity presented itself to align our business with a close associate and lease a fantastic Office/Showroom facility to accommodate us both.

Our Office

Reception Area

My Office

First Floor Landing and Workspace

Considering our family plans we are very happy that this has happened now rather than later. We did all the interior construction, painting, data and communication cabling ourselves. We have been working non stop for 3 weeks now. This coming Sunday we have agreed that we will not go to work (either business) on Sunday and make it our first true day off in weeks.

For those that have followed our blog you will notice that i am learning and getting so much better at making it interesting. Im very happy with myself. Funny part is that Tim and I own a technology company and i am technology "dummy". So stay tuned and i will do my best to keep things bright, colorful and interesting.

Thanks for following our journey

xxxxxxxxxxxx Chris and Tim

It's been a busy 2 months

Well it has been almost 2 months since our last post, so I feel it's time for an update.

December came and went so very fast I don't even think I had time to breath. For me with my company it is the busiest month of the year and December 2012 certainly did not disappoint. We increased sales for the month compared to last year which was an amazing achievement for my team. As usual we worked All through the Xmas period only stopping to have the New Year's Eve off. All the family came to our home on Xmas day (kids house of choice as we have the pool). And a small gathering of friends and family on New Year's Eve made a very nice relaxed way to celebrate 2012 and welcome 2013. Tim took the opportunity on Xmas day to let his 3 brother know about our exciting news. As expected they had no idea, however his sister in law claims to have picked it as soon as we told her we were off to India. Hahahahaha. Although it is only our close family, 3 or so close friends and blog land that knows, the response and support has been amazing. I think everyone that knows about the pregnancy also knows our exact schedule of when we receive reports and scans from SCI, and they wait impatiently with us as each one falls due, which is nice, It is such a great feeling that our family really support this and are as excited as we are.

Tim's company (although still in its infant stage) is making good progress. Let me tell you running 2 business is a real challenge. I have set Tim the challenge to arrange both business structure to allow for the fact that one of us will no longer be full time involved (me). So what do we do, we increase our workload and decide that to stabilize both business' we need to separate them????????? So as of feb we will have the challenge of fitting out our new offices for his company 20 minutes from where my business is located and 30 minutes from home. We are both sure that this is the correct way to move forward, no matter how illogical it may seem. In all fairness both business are growing and Tim's business was squashed into my office. (A bit like trying to fit an elephant in a bath tub)

Anyhow we are officially at 13 weeks and 2 days as of the 16 Jan 2013.... Excitement is not the word to describe how we feel. Even better is the news that the our dear friends from Sydney mr and mrs Greek-Aussie that we met in Delhi are at the same stage with their pregnancy. I can't think of a more deserving couple and can't wait to share the experience extending our family at the same time as them.

Well that is all for now. Thanks for following our journey, and for all those who share theirs.

Xxxxxxx

Chris and Tim 

We have a heartbeat

It has been a while since our last post. We got our first scan 1 week ago and a single sac was seen. Then this morning an email of our second scan with a heartbeat. Hooray. Neha sent an email at 3.30 am Melbourne time and I woke up at 3.45am for no reason. I always get nervous with Sci emails and I strangely hold the I pad / iPhone away from view and slowly sneak a peak at the screen. I don't know why and yes it sound silly but I do it without realizing. This mornings email was easy as one of the first words that showed in the preview was "congratulations" see below.

Dear Chris,

We hope you are doing fine !!

Many Congratulations !!

We would like to inform you that as per our schedule we have done USG scan for your surrogate mother.

We are extremely happy to let you know that we have noted single heartbeat during her USG scan with Dr. Jolly.

Please find attached reports for the scan.

Kindly note that Dr. Shivani has reviewed the reports and noted this within satisfactory limit.

We are pleased to let you know that it is confirmed now that she is carrying singleton pregnancy.

We are now moving further.

In regards to the same her next scan will be done within two weeks.

We will keep you updated with further progress and new status.

With Regards,
Neha
SCI Healthcare

This is the best email we have ever received.

Too excited and happy for words at the moment

Thanks for following our journey

Xxxxxx Chris and Tim

Update on the past few days

Hello to all our friends in blog land. WOW what an interesting few days it has been since our last post. Well Tim went in to hospital to ave his tonsils removed last Thursday, a fairly straight forward procedure in general however a little more complicated the older you get. He was only in over night and I picked him up in the morning. Well this is my best friend and life partner and we have barely spent a night apart in over 7 years. In the past we have been through the ups and downs as most experience in a relationship and we eventually discovered that we have problems when we stop talking. We both like to talk and get everyone off our minds, well as a result of his throat surgery he is not talking, and suffering the pain in silence. Seriously very hard for me as I am a huge talker and need constant interaction and conversation.

I had my 2 youngest niece and nephew stay with us for the weekend, in true uncle style it was junk junk junk food all the way. Tim was still too unwell so I took the kids to the pancake parlor for more junk food and milkshakes. We then spent most of Sunday around the house and in the pool. Even the warm weather and pool didn't bring Tim outside.

On to today (Monday) with Tim off work for a week or more I'm wearing 2 different professional hats. First is running my business as I have for the past 9 years, the second is running Tim's business which I generally sit silently by and don't really play a hands on role. I have 13 staff in my organisation but most who have worked with me for a long time and are very self sufficient, Tim has just 1 employee who is new to our busieness so still requires a bit of guidance and micro managing. So I am happily taking up the slack left by Tim.

At work this afternoon I got a phone call from Tim's mum (very unusual) she was calling to ask if we had ambulance insurance cover? To which my reply was "why"!!!!!!!!!!  Well darling Timmy decided he would start bleeding from the inside of his throat this afternoon and knowing me and my disastrous reaction to anything "blood" chose not to call me at work 3 mins away from home but to call his mum 3 suburbs away...... Well yes we do have insurance cover but excuse my language f&$k the insurance cover, just call the bloody ambulance. I got home to Tim sitting with his head in a bucket of you know what..... All the time he is coughing blood he is worried about me getting too close and passing out on the floor. Thankfully our friend who also works with us came to the house as well to help me deal with the blood. Finally 2 ambulances arrive to take him to hospital. Very serious stuff indeed, he had lost a fair bit of blood and was rushed into surgery to stop the bleeding. I have never been in an ambulance and I didn't really want to start now so I chose to follow behind and pick up his mum on the way to the hospital. So we waited and waited for him to finally come out of surgery and into the normal area where he will spend the next few days. All is good and they were able to stop the bleeding.

While we were waiting in the hospital waiting area I had a phone call that a truck had dropped over 200 liters of diesel all over the service station driveways. Shit shit shit. Thank you to my good friend who I was able to call on at 10pm who went straight down and dealt with the situation for me.. With the fuel spill under control and about 4% battery left on my phone I got this magical email from Sci. And as I say where there are negative there will always be a positive.




Dear Chris,

 

 

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

We are very happy to inform you that the value is 317.42, 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.

Well now we a so very happy and lucky that both surrogates are pregnant... A week apart and both pregnant. Really this just made a very ordinary day much much better. Tim doesn't know yet as he was still half out of it from the anesthetic. So I will tell him tomorrow.  We are expecting scans for our first surrogate this week fingers crossed. 

It is now 1.34am and it has been such a long day, I need to get some rest but as I had no one to share this news with I have had to stay up and blog it. 

Thank you for following our journey

Xxxx Chris and Tim 

We are pregnant HOORAY

As the title says, we are pregnant!!!!!!

Dear Chris,

cOnGrAtULaTiOnS...!!!

We would like to inform you that as per our schedule we have done a Beta HCG test for S.

We are happy to inform you that her beta value is 112.04, which is very good.

Please find the attached file for the same.

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

We will now do a USG scan for her within a week to check the pregnancy sacs.

Once her scan will be done, we will get back to you at the earliest.

SCI wishing you good luck for this beautiful journey ahead.

It was so nice to get one of these special colorful Sci emails. So it is so much more real now and very exciting. I know it's still very early days so trying to remain very positive ans optimistic that everything will progress fine. 

In other news Tim goes in to hospital to have his tonsils removed, so I'm going to have a patient to deal with. So he will get to stay at home and rest while I go to work. Hahahahaha 

That's about all for now. Thanks for following our journey. 

Xxx Chris and Tim 

FET and welcome to November

November is here. Christmas is 8 weeks away. The weather in Melbourne is becoming fantastic. And work is still getting busy busy busy. I received an email from Sci this morning that the FET had taken place for S2. So now we patiently wait for the test on the 5th and 11th November. EXCITING.

I'm really not looking forward to the Xmas shopping as usual. The shopping centers will be full, people will be going silly, I think I will just stay at work... Over the past 2 months and the positive distractions I have fallen a little behind with the admin side of work and now find myself needing to work Saturdays. I mean I used to work Saturdays before but it was by choice. Now I need to.

We have a friends wedding this coming Monday, and as excited as I am for them, I'm really not excited about being in front of all their friends and family as part of the wedding party. I'm the sort of person that in a professional environment will take the lead and control/manage things, I love to delegate and I am by no means a micro manager. I'm probably the complete opposite. But when it comes to private /personal life I like to take a back seat and blend into the surroundings. Tim is the organizer in the house and for holidays. Although from time to time he tries to step on my professional shoes so to speak. We run a business together and I also manage another myself, so the professional relationship can be strained at times. But hey. As I like to say without the arguments and fights there would be no love. As love is the reason we fight for each other..

Thanks for reading.

Xxxx Chris and Tim