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Meet Maxime & Christophe
Location: Toulouse, France
Maxime (34) and Christophe (40), we’ve known each other for 11 years now. We’ve been living together as a couple for 6 years.
We’re getting married soon! Christophe proposed to me at his 40th birthday party last November. All our friends were there, my family and Christophe’s family. Everyone was very moved and emotional!
We live in the south of France, in Toulouse. We share our daily life with a dog and a cat: Preston, a 4-year-old staffie, and Ramses, a 3-year-old maine coon. So we hope to be 5 at home very soon!
We recently moved into a large apartment. There are 3 bedrooms: one for us, one for our future baby and one to receive our friends but also to receive our moms when they come to see us after the birth.
We’re already starting to think in terms of the 3 of us, and we’re already planning our roles as dads.
At present, Christophe has been running his own business: a private high-tech fitness studio for 7 years. As for me (Maxime), I’m in Nutrition training. Our plan is to expand Christophe’s studio into new premises and work together to develop his business. As a result, both of us can manage our schedules as we wish, which will come in handy when we become fathers.
We are very much surrounded by our family, especially our mothers, who are very much a part of our daily lives. Our closest friends have also been parents for varying lengths of time.
We talk about our project very often, and everyone around us supports us 10,00%! Our child already has lots of aunties and uncles!
We’re also both uncles (our respective brothers each have a 5-year-old boy, and Christophe’s brother also has a 2-year-old girl). We don’t hesitate to go away at weekends to see them and take care of them: what happiness every time.
This Christmas, we’re going to treat our moms and nephews to a trip to Disneyland Paris. The 6 of us can’t wait to go!
Our moms will be so happy when our baby arrives – they’re already mums thanks to our brothers, but it would be even more magical for her if we became dads.
A typical Friday (or Saturday) night for us is a night out at a restaurant with our friends (or at their house or ours) to have a good time with them. We can also go to the cinema together or with friends, and we love to go and see a play or a show.
Today, for both of us, it’s obvious: a deep and powerful desire to become parents.
We want a child to prolong our love and pass on the values we believe in, our history and the continuity of our family.
We want to start a family, educate a child, give him love, our love, live as a family, give him all the foundations of respect and love so that he can be happy and give meaning to our lives (something that is not possible when we are young, becomes possible as we get older). When a stable personal and professional life is established, there’s no longer any doubt and the desire is there and constant. It’s not an easy road, we know that, but everyone should have the right to be a father or mother. We’ll put all our chances on our side.
Our child will be so loved! We’ll know how to love him as much as possible, and even more! We’ll know how to explain our journey, his journey, out of love. We have the tools to accompany him on his life’s journey and help show him the best path and the learning he’ll need… which will give him a solid, stable foundation for happiness. He will also be loved by many people, such as our parents, families and friends. In fact, he hasn’t even arrived yet, and all our friends and family are anxious to meet him, pamper him and keep him if we need him! He’s so eagerly awaited by everyone!
For the baby’s birth, we’ll both be in Canada for the time it takes to get his passport. We’ll be able to organize our activities so that we can stay for at least 6 weeks.
Back in France, one of us (Maxime) will take paternity leave for the first few weeks to stay at home and look after baby. After that, we think he’ll go to the crèche with other children his age. We’ve already contacted several nurseries near our home. We also have friends and work colleagues not far from home who can look after him if we need to, and Christophe’s mom is not far away either (she’s retired and no longer works).
On weekends, we’ll probably go to our families to enjoy time with our child and those we love.
After the birth of our child, we hope to keep in touch with our surrogate wife, and for us, this means checking in regularly, telling her how the baby is and how he’s growing, sending photos from time to time, and why not even making a FaceTime call.
We also think that this post-baby contact will depend on the relationship that develops with our surrogate. Maybe we’ll go back to Canada regularly.
During the vacations, we love to travel and discover new countries. We have the same passion for travel!
In August 2023, we went to Kenya in Africa for 2 weeks on safari, seeing incredible animals and magnificent landscapes. While we were there, we both said to ourselves that we’d definitely come back to show our child all this, as it’s so important for him to be enriched by experiences in other countries. We recently went to Amsterdam. When we have a child, we’ll be so happy to go on vacation with him or her, and we also dream of taking him or her to Lapland to meet Santa Claus.
If possible, we’d like to come to Canada to see our surrogate during the pregnancy.
We speak French and very little English. We’re willing to make the effort. We’re going to take English lessons very soon to be able to communicate more easily.
We’ll also be able to chat with her on a daily basis (using Whatsapp for example) throughout the pregnancy.
We’re ready to become dads! We came to Toronto in March 2022 for a week to discover the city and the country, and above all to donate our sperm to make our embryos. We chose the Egg Helpers agency for the egg donation and the Create clinic and Dr Librach for our medical care. Our fertility doctor says we have a great chance of success with a female surrogate, and we now have 9 clinic-ready embryos waiting! They have been tested with the PGS test.
Lawyer Rachel West is following us for the legal aspect of the project.
When we imagine the relationship with our surrogate wife, we want a relationship based on trust, respect, sharing, comfort and listening. A relationship that will be soothing, allowing her, and us, to experience this journey in complete serenity.
We take our roles as future fathers very seriously, and this will be even more the case when our surrogate is carrying our baby. We’ll be there for her at all times, using new technologies to call each other, write to each other, send each other photos… so that she can ask us questions and we can ask them too.
We’ll probably be sending voice messages and songs that she can listen to too.
Above all, we want to be there to support our surrogate so that she can make the most of this journey with us.
We hope to find the right woman to help us start our family and fulfill our deepest dream of becoming dads!
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