The Broadchois

The Broadchois

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Hello Emerson

👨‍👨‍👦Welcome to the world, Emerson. We are the happiest and proudest Appa and Daddy ❤️. Emerson Jaeyoon Broadchoi was born at 1:44pm on Wednesday 24 May 2023 weighing at 4.26kg and 53cm long. Emerson came to the world surrounded by so much love from family, friends, amazing surrogate and

Finding out about Congenital Heart Defect

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Finding out about Congenital Heart Defect

We knew and understood from the beginning that our parenthood journey is going to be long and winding with bumps along the way but nothing could have prepared us for the news. We looked forward to the 20 week anatomy ultrasound scan, rested and relaxed after Christmas and New Year&

NIPT Results, Baby's Sex

NIPT Results, Baby's Sex

We opted to take NIPT to screen risks for chromosomal abnormalities and this is done by taking blood sample from the surrogate. The laboratory then isolates the fetal DNA that circulates in the pregnant woman's blood to analyse. We did it during the first obstetrician appointment at gestational

We are pregnant!!!

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We are pregnant!!!

If you are still wondering after seeing the image and the title of this post, yes we are PREGNANT 🎉🎉🎉 Let us start back from waiting after the transfer. The stakes seemed higher and we waited very anxiously for day 10 test. Considering what had happened in the previous transfer attempt,

Embryo Transfers

Embryo Transfers

First decision we had to make with our embryos was when to transfer them to Fertility Associates as they were created and stored with Fertility Plus. We decided to transfer them while we were waiting for the ECART decision so they are ready at the clinic when approval comes through.

Book Recommendations

Book Recommendations

There are numerous books on surrogacy, parenting, and same-sex parents for intended parents, surrogates, and children. We have started collecting and reading some of the books as we continue on our journey. From practical guides, relationship building, to age appropriate books below are some of our favourites. The book You

ECART Outcome

The Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ECART) is a ministerial committee established under section 27 of the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology (HART) Act 2004. ECART considers and determines applications for assisted reproductive procedures or human reproductive research and keeps under review approvals previously given. In addition, ECART liaises with

ECART - Counselling

ECART - Counselling

What comes to your mind when you hear the word counselling? Psychiatrist chairs, lying down on a couch, emotional distress, American TV shows? Yeah, that was the image we had too. Jokes aside, we found counselling to be excellent and we understand why it is required for ECART. In fact,

ECART - Oranga Tamariki

ECART - Oranga Tamariki

At the time of writing, having a child through surrogacy requires intending parents to adopt the child in New Zealand. Whether the surrogacy is domestic or international you need to adopt the child in NZ. You need to work with Oranga Tamariki during ECART process to complete a mini* (not

ECART - Legal

🔔This post contains our experiences and opinions on interesting legal issues with surrogacy in New Zealand. It is a complex process and we are not lawyers. We advise that you seek your own legal advice as each case is unique and your experience may differ. Adoption Act 1955 was created

ECART - Medical

ECART - Medical

We created embryos with Fertility Plus in 2020. We remember going to Fertility Plus for our first appointment and being overwhelmed with new information and series of consent forms that we had to read and sign. Many of which still had gendered designation expecting one of intending parents to be

In Search of the Surrogate

In Search of the Surrogate

We were absolutely elated when we created 6 embryos but we were not quite prepared for the next phase of the journey ahead of us. We knew this was going to be a tough and lengthy journey. We did not know where to start but knew that literrally and figuratively

Surrogate Search

Surrogate Search

We (Nick & John) have been on our journey into growing our family for a little while. In late 2019 we’ve had a major milestone with an offer from John’s sister to be our egg donor and fortunate to have 6 embryos frozen in Feb 2020. We’ve

Blastocyst

Today our clinic confirmed that we have 6 embryos that reached blastocyst and were frozen. We are over the moon with the results and really want to say big thank you to everyone that supported us along the way. A very special thanks to our egg donor for making this

Embryos

Today started with an update call from Fertility Plus informing us that 10 out of 14 eggs have made it to day 1! We will get further update on Saturday and Tuesday and progress towards blastocyst stage. We are super excited and happy to have come to this stage and

Egg Collection

We are now one step closer to parenthood with egg collection this morning. We were there watching as it happened. It was a lot more involved then we ever thought. We can’t say thanks enough to our amazing egg donor and seeing the sacrifice, pain, and discomfort we feel

Hello

John and I (Nick) have been together 10 years this coming August. We got married in 2018 after 8 years together in a small intimate wedding. We could never have imagined the life we have and the life we will have. It still feels unreal that we are on the