Hello everyone,
This is our story.
Take the time to sit quietly, because our experience is a little long to recount.
After 5 years of unsuccessful “IVF” – I will spare you the moral and physical details for my wife – but in short our last chance was surrogacy. With the first research, we shortlisted a selection of countries for our project:
GREECE: administratively too vague and unstructured
RUSSIA: surrogate mothers have rights over the child until birth. They make it clear that they can keep the baby or else they have to pay extra to get the child back.
USA: well structured but financially dissuasive.
UKRAINE: this is the country which, in our opinion, brings together the best coherence between all the very structured positions (notary, lawyer, administration, maternity and embassy). All these organisations are very organised, very responsive and fast. Financially very accessible.
So we then decided to start a more precise search in Ukraine.
We had no guidance form doctors in France, who are very cautious in this area.
Several agencies convinced us financially with their proposed formulas; but for some, after in-depth study of each position, we realised that they do not completely master their subject and do not make any effort.
Only one person, HELENE, stood out from the crowd. She provided us with clear, precise and confident answers, approaching specialists (doctors, laboratories, etc.) with whom she is in permanent contact to find answers to questions she could not answer directly.
Reassured by her approach, we started our project at the beginning of 2019 with Hélène’s former company where she was employed until the end of summer 2020.
We were well supported by Hélène for administrative procedures and medical requests from doctors. They have put in place clear and very elaborate protocols to increase the probability of success, something which unfortunately does not exist in France.
In the end, incredibly, we only obtained very good results, resulting in 9 embryos after 7 to 6 days of development and 6 after PGD examination (which isn’t available in France but which would prevent many miscarriages).
This was followed by the implantation of the “surrogate mother” who became pregnant after two attempts.
So far so good. We were living a dream.
But the COVID 19 global pandemic arrives and there, borders are closed, etc. Couples can no longer come to Ukraine.
In addition, still due to the pandemic, we suffered great disappointment with the important surrogacy company that followed us until then and which showed weaknesses and poor financial management to the detriment of couples and teams.
Hélène, true to herself, (as they say: the first impression is the right one) took up the torch and had the will and the courage to create the company NEST AND CO with her team of collaborators on site in Kyiv, also very professional and with a lot of empathy.
Together, they have enabled many couples in the same situation as us, as well as surrogate mothers in danger, to bring their current projects to fruition.
The policy of the very young and new company NEST AND CO favours a structure on a human scale and quality, in line with these human projects.
The short, human and quality circuit put forward by NEST AND CO respects the couples who use its services with the sole objective of helping them, comforting them, supporting them as best as possible in the successful completion of their project and providing them with joy and happiness.
After this long and difficult journey, strewn with pitfalls, we resisted and achieved our most beautiful dream. Today, since the end of March 2020, we have been delighted by our wonderful little Laura who will soon be two months old.
Thanks to Chrystina, our wonderful surrogate mother, very sweet and very involved.
Thanks to Alena, our guardian angel, who during our long stay in Kyiv was always at our side to help with everything (guide, translations, accompaniment, support, relations with the various Ukrainian organisations, etc.).
Thanks to Anna who looked after Chrystina like a mother with gentleness and firmness.
Thank you to Hélène for her kindness, empathy, listening, patience and professionalism. Thanks to her limitless involvement and her unfailing determination, she made it possible for our project to succeed.
Here is our story which we hope will give hope to future parents.
R&L, France,
A journey in Ukraine
