We are often asked how we lived our first days after the birth of our children abroad through surrogacy, while waiting for the issuance of an emergency passport to travel to our home country.
Of course, every family experiences these first days differently: being in a city far from home, where another language is likely spoken and life is different, in a home that is not yours, with all the precautions that caring for our newborn may entail.
Watch the video to see how we celebrated our daughter's first month in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2021 amid the Covid-19 pandemic, summarizing our life those days:
▫️ With a lot of joy and a desire to celebrate every moment.
▫️ With the most delicious food: this Roshen cake was amazing, as attested by the older brother.
▫️ With a touch of improvisation: lacking a candle and matches (our kitchen was electric), a toothpick makes a fine symbolic candle. Note the older brother's homemade haircut, as hair salons were closed due to Covid-19.
▫️ Amidst a delightful chaos, with a four-year-old and a newborn baby.
▫️ With the warmth of the home provided by the surrogacy center's apartment and all the love of this family that had just grown.
In our case, as our daughter was born during the global pandemic's preventive isolation, the procedures in Argentina and Ukraine required us to stay five weeks in Kyiv. This time was a unique opportunity to share a very precious time together as a family without interruptions, enjoying being together.
At the same time, we experienced all the wonders of the city and everything new it had to offer us.
Soon we will share our experience in the first surrogacy process with the four grandparents who accompanied us on that adventure abroad.
Without a doubt, those days in Kyiv hold the best memories of our lives.
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