RIP Our Beautiful Delta



Our Delta
3/12/99 - 24/9/11




Today is a sad day for us, our beautiful Delta has crossed over the rainbow bridge to heaven. She was our first furry baby and she was an amazing dog. She was nearly 12 and for an Alaskan Malamute she far surpassed the average life expectancy for her breed, but over the last 12 months her health has slowly deteriorated. This morning when I went into see them, I just knew it was time to let her go and be free.

This is probably the hardest decision I have ever had to make especially with Mark being away at work but I knew it was a decision I had to make for her not for us. Our tears will eventually dry and the pain of her loss will fade, we both have lots of good memories of her. We are lucky that we still have Phoenix (her brother) and 3 cats to keep us company. I am always amazed at how animals just know how to make you feel better when you are feeling sad.

Thank you to Rochelle, Sammy, Jerome, Emma and the staff at the Claremont Vet Clinic, without the love and support from all of you this day would've been a lot harder.

We now have 2 guardians angels watching over our family, good night my beautiful girl run free, you will always be in our hearts. We miss you already, till we meet again.

21 weeks

Wow, 21 weeks already! Time is flying by now. We received our scan last night, both baby and Jyoti are doing well. They did the full anatomy scan this time and took measurements of all the bones and organs, thankfully everything is normal, baby is measuring 21 weeks and 2 days so just a bit ahead.

It is still very surreal to see this little baby growing 7,854 km away from us and it is actually our baby. Everyone going through surrogacy knows exactly what I mean and how we never stop worrying until the baby is born and placed into your arms. CharlieCat wrote a post a few weeks ago called surrogacy pains and it sums up exactly what we go through and feel during this amazing journey to become parents.

So now the countdown is on:
3 weeks until the baby is hopefully able to survive if he/she is born early
4 weeks until the next scan
6 weeks until we start the 3rd trimester

That's about as far ahead as we are looking at the moment, this weekend we are going to order the nursery furniture and decide on paint colours etc as December will be here before we know it.

Here are 2 pics from the latest scan.




20 weeks 6 days






Happy Birthday Mum and 19 weeks

Happy 60th Birthday to my Mum!! The best mum/nanna in the world!


I know she won't like me mentioning how old she is but is a special birthday and she deserves a special mention on the blog.


We are currently in Bali to celebrate Mum's birthday, Mark's birthday and also this is our babymoon, the last holiday we hope to take as a couple! Bali is awesome, nice change from the rain and cold of Perth.


Congratulations to those who have had babies recently, such an exciting time for you all, hopefully we will be back in Delhi in about 17 weeks or so to meet our little one.


To B & D and Lucylu, my heart goes out to you on your recent sad news, our love and thoughts are with you all and that in time I know you will find the strength to continue on your journey to parenthood.


So onto the baby news, well thank goodness once again, no news is good news!! Our baby is now 19 weeks and 146 days to go!! So we are at least half way done! It is still a very surreal feeling to think that in 17 weeks I will be going back to Delhi awaiting the arrival of our first baby! I always knew that I would have kids one day but now it is actually really happening.


Our next scan is due next week and it will be a nice welcome home present for when I get back from Bali, poor Mark goes home on Monday to go back to work on Tuesday and I get to enjoy another 5 days of paradise. He's doing it for the team ,GO MARK, you are the best!!

I will update soon with some pictures of paradise!

xx