Solicitors

Peter and I went to see a solicitor today about surrogacy and the legalities involved, very positive and (should be) straight forward.

Sister and her hubby have to register the birth in their names and Peter and I have to apply to the courts for a parental order to assume legal parental responsibility for the child, this can't be done until the child is 6 weeks old, but has to be done before the child is 6 months old.  Then it's up to the courts to confirm that the birth parents (my sister and hobby) do not want to stay as legal parents and are happy to sign away their rights to the child.

Seems easy enough!

Moving forward

After much discussion and consideration I have decided that it would be cruel to deny Peter the opportunity to have a child of his own just because I can't carry, so we're going to move forward with my sister and him having children together.

Still not 100% comfortable with it, but I'm sure I'll get my head around it before baby arrives.

Just got to put wheels in motion now. I tried a clinic closer to my sister for her convenience and they said yes but would have to include a 3rd person to donate the eggs as my sister could;t use her own eggs and the waiting list for donor eggs is approximately 2 years!  And as a result of using donor eggs the price went through the roof and it would have to be IVF cycles too.  So I called the LWC to see if they were willing to do a surrogacy IUI between Peter and my sister - to which they said yes.