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Meet Louis-Charles & Alexis
Location: Montreal, QC
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Hello!
We are Alexis (28) & Louis-Charles (29), a young professional French couple from Montreal dreaming of building a family together. Please allow us to try and present who we are as best as we can through this text.
Alexis has been a Bank Manager for over a year now but has been working and growing within the same institution for 10 years. Louis-Charles is a Visual Effects Producer in cinema and television, also working for the same company for 8 years. We think it’s safe to say that this shows how loyalty is one of our strong values. Our careers are very important to us, and we couldn’t be prouder of our respective achievements as young men. But there is nothing more important to us than welcoming our first child in our lives.
We have been together for nearly 5 years now. We got engaged in Rome during our Trip to Italy in September 2022 and we can wait to officialize our union forever through marriage. Speaking or marriage! We have a secret to share with you… we decided to merge two of our most important life projects together. Getting married and building a family. We want to do a surprise wedding during our future baby shower. Something simple and unexpected surrounded by our dearest friends and family and we hope, should you want to, that you will be there and take part in this magical event with us! Our love and admiration for each other keeps on growing every day, and having a baby naturally feels like the next steps for us.
One of our best assets as a couple is our mutual admiration and respect. We both want the other to succeed and to grow into being the best version of himself personally and professionally. We support each other, we help each other, and we make sure to always be the best teammates we can wish for.
We are now at a point in our lives where we are ready and determined to start this journey. Gabrielle, one of our best friends, has volunteered to be our egg donor. This means the world to us, and we will forever be grateful for this selfless act of kindness and proof of love. We are currently in the early stages and the egg donation is yet to happen, but we trust that with the expertise of the great doctors at the CreateIVF clinic in Toronto, everything will go smoothly (or at least we hope!).
When we think about the relationship with our Surrogate, we think of a relationship that is based on respect, trust and profound communication. We don’t want to force anything either and we are keen on seeing where this journey will naturally lead us. Our primary wish is to build a relationship that will get us through the ups and downs as partners, as friends.
After the birth, we’re hoping to stay in touch with our Surrogate. We are comfortable with giving her updates on our family’s lives and for her to be part of meaningful events. Of course, that is if she desires to. We would fully understand and respect our surrogate’s decision not to be part of the child’s life if this is her desire.
When the baby is born, we are planning on taking the full parental leave that we are eligible to (and maybe more). We both want to spend as much time as possible with our future child, especially during the first year. We will be fully dedicated to making sure we are providing all the necessary for our child to grow up healthy.
Our parents will, without a doubt, be around to assist us and to spend some quality time with their grandchild. We’re surrounded by so many lovely people such as family and friends.
From Louis-Charles’ side:
Louis-Charles’ parents are already grand-parents and they’re loving it! They can’t get enough of seeing their grand-children and they are very present in their lives. They are always available and ready to help when needed. Louis-Charles has an older sister who has two daughters (2 & 4) and a younger brother who is also planning on starting a family.
Everyone in his family is very close and are frequently checking on each other. This is true with his immediate family but also with his uncles, aunts, and cousins.
From Alexis’ side;
Alexis’ parents will surely be very delighted with the news of becoming grandparents. Alexis has an older brother who also turns out to be gay and who doesn’t wish to have children. We’ll let you imagine the excitement that our future baby will bring to his family!
We’re very lucky to be able to regularly meet with his 2 grandmothers and 1 of his grandfathers who are still with us.
On the friends’ side;
We are also very fortunate to be surrounded by amazing friends. Our friend circle is very dear to our hearts and fully supportive and excited about this journey. They all live close to our home with most of them starting their own families. Needless to say that our future little one will have lots of friends to have fun with!
Oh! And not to forget about Maurice, our sweet 6 years old ginger cat. He is honestly the cutest.
We often find ourselves dreaming while driving (not literally sleep-dreaming of course!) … we like to picture us two in the front with our child safely sitting in the backseat on our way to meet with family or friends. This very simple picture brings us so much joy!
We also like to picture our everyday activities or routine with a child in it. We are talking about this quite often actually and it always excites us to know that one day we will be able to share our lives with a child. We like to think that we’ll be the kind of fathers who will be very accepting, who will always be there to listen and support their child and who will make sure to provide a safe environment where he/she will be able to learn and grow throughout his/her own life experiences. We will be so thrilled to travel or create special moments that bring joy and wonder in our hearths as a family. Seeing life through his/her eyes will surely be something fulfilling for us.
This feels already like a lengthy reading for you… we have so much to share, and we would be delighted to meet you and get to know more about you. We hope this gives you a good hint about who we are and that it manifests our strong will to become fathers. This is our ultimate dream!
If you are willing to jump into this with us, be assured that we will do everything we can to be there and support you throughout this journey. Carrying a child for another couple is probably one of the most beautiful and compassionate acts that can be done. And for that, you will forever have our entire respect.
All our very best,
Alexis & Louis-Charles 🙂
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