Meet Our Intended Parents
Meet Alex & Jenna
Location: Scarborough, ON
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Hello! We’re Jenna and Alex. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us a little better 🙂
We are a very family-oriented, loving, and adventurous couple, and family means everything to us. Both of our families are very close and incredibly excited about welcoming a new member of the family (including our doggie, Rex, and kitty, Tigra). We hope to give our child the same sense of family, love, tradition, and belonging that has meant so much to both of us. We can’t wait for our child to experience the joy of family traditions, including holidays, time at the family cottage with family games and dinners, and Christmases together, while also creating traditions of our own.
From the beginning our connection on match.com felt very special and unique. We bonded instantly over our shared family values and our love of animals, the great outdoors, traveling, playing sports, and spending time with family and friends, including at the cottage. Alex still remembers being captivated by Jenna’s smile on their first date sitting on a patio beside the lake at sunset.
Eight months later, Alex surprised Jenna by proposing on Diamond Head Mountain in Hawaii, with the beach and sunshine in the background. It was a moment we will always treasure. We were married later that year in a big Italian-style family wedding surrounded by our family and friends.
Becoming parents has been a dream for both of us for many years, but unfortunately ours has not been a traditional journey. After having trouble getting pregnant, we saw a fertility doctor and Jenna was diagnosed with stage 4 endometriosis and underwent an 8-hour surgery. We have completed 14 IVF cycles, 2 IUI cycles, and 7 embryo transfers (without success) giving every attempt our heart and hope.
After an incredibly difficult journey, we learned that we are unable to get pregnant without the help of a surrogate. While there have been moments of sadness and disappointment, our desire to become parents has never faltered.
We are now beginning our surrogacy journey with hope, excitement, and an enormous amount of gratitude for the woman who may help us complete our family.
For us, this isn’t just about having a baby. It’s about building a family filled with love, laughter, support, and all of those everyday moments that make life special. We’re really looking forward to the day when we can experience all of that as parents and continue the family legacy that our parents and grandparents began by passing along the traditions, values, stories, and love that have shaped both of us.
We want our child to grow up healthy, happy, loved, and surrounded by family.
We want to give them every opportunity to learn, discover their passions, and pursue whatever dreams they may have. We want to teach them the importance of kindness, family, perseverance, and making the most of life.
We look forward to celebrating all of their firsts, watching them grow and learn through experience and their curiosity of the world around them, nurturing their souls and supporting their hobbies, and sharing all of the joy and excitement that life has to offer. We dream of taking them to the cottage, travelling together, teaching them to kayak, watching them play sports, celebrating Christmas and family traditions, supporting their education, and simply watching them grow into the person they are meant to become.
Most importantly, we want them to know that they were deeply loved and wanted long before they entered our lives.
If you are reading our profile and considering becoming part of our journey, we want you to know how incredibly grateful we are. It takes a very special person to offer to carry a child for another family. We have tremendous respect and gratitude for you and for every surrogate. We understand what an incredibly generous and personal decision it is to carry a child for another family, and we would never take that gift for granted.
We are hoping to find a surrogate who values family as much as we do and lives a generally healthy lifestyle. We hope to build a close relationship based on trust, honesty, respect, communication, and kindness. We want our surrogate to feel supported and comfortable throughout the entire journey, while also respecting the kind of relationship that feels right for her. We would love to attend appointments, receive updates, maybe even share a meal after an appointment or pick her up from the airport if she has to travel here, but we will follow our surrogate’s lead and respect her wishes and boundaries.
Our path to parenthood has not been the one we imagined, but it has taught us just how precious the opportunity to build a family truly is.
We have imagined the moment when we first hold our baby in our arms. We will feel absolutely elated with love and joy and warmth. We will just be enveloped in a feeling of calm and serenity. There will be happy tears, grateful tears, for the little miracle in our arms. We will be so excited to introduce this little bundle of joy to life, to our family, and to the world around them.
We hope that when you get to know us, you see a couple who loves each other deeply, values family, enjoys life and adventure, and is ready to give a child an incredible amount of love.
Our greatest dream is to one day hear our child say the words “Mommy” and “Daddy.” If that dream comes true, we will always know that a very special person helped make our dream a reality.
Letter To Surrogate
Dear Future Surrogate,
There will never be enough ways or words to thank you for this incredible act of kindness and generosity that you are selflessly offering to do for us to help us welcome a precious bundle of joy into our family. We are eternally grateful to you for giving us the most incredible gift there is: the gift of life.
Like so many others, we have had a difficult journey with some ups but many downs (14 IVF cycles, 2 IUI cycles, 7 unsuccessful embryo transfers, an 8-hour surgery), yet our desire to become parents has never faltered. Now our only option to bring our children into our world is through surrogacy. Something we cannot do without caring altruistic people like you. We are embarking on our surrogacy journey with hope, excitement, and an enormous amount of gratitude for you. No one should have to endure the heartache that couples struggling with fertility face, but we feel so fortunate to have you as the beacon of light in our journey, and we are honoured and humbled to start this new chapter with you.
We recognize and appreciate how this journey may affect you and impact your life and your family, and so we will never take you for granted or take for granted the sacrifices you are making for us. We want to support you however we are able and do everything we can to help make this experience as enjoyable and seamless for you as possible.
Therefore, our pledge to you is the following:
We promise to support you throughout the entire journey in whatever ways feel comfortable for you. We hope to build a close relationship based on trust, honesty, respect, communication, and kindness, while respecting the kind of relationship that feels right for you. We would love to attend appointments with you, receive updates, maybe even share a meal after an appointment if you like or pick you up from the airport if you have to travel here, but we will follow your lead and respect your wishes and boundaries.
We promise to respect you. Always.
We promise to value you. Always.
We promise to trust that you know your body best. We promise that we won’t try to micromanage (or macromanage!) you. We promise to do everything possible to shape this experience into a beautiful partnership. At the end of this journey, our wish for you is to have found this a fulfilling and enjoyable journey.
We vow never to take the gift you are giving us for granted, and so our pledge to you and our future child is the following:
We promise to be loving, supportive, nurturing, and devoted parents. We promise to help our child grow and learn through experience and their curiosity of the world around them. We look forward to sharing all of the special moments, and promise to celebrate all of their firsts, all of
their milestones, and all of their accomplishments big or small. We promise to nurture their souls and support their hobbies. We promise to surround them with loving family, friends, and exemplary role models. We promise to be the best parents we can be and to share with them all of the joys that life has to offer.
As I pass the playground on my morning runs, sometimes a silent tear runs down my cheek unnoticed as I watch the children there playing with their parents. Although it saddens me that I will never be able to experience pregnancy or feel my baby kick, I’d like to think that rather this is a tear of joy, imagining the day when hopefully we will be one of those families playing together at the park. I have accepted that I will not be able to carry my own child, and I have realized that it doesn’t matter how they enter this world, once I am holding my baby in my arms, that will be the only thing that matters.
Thank you for helping to make our dreams come true. We need more people in the world like you!
With Love,
Jenna and Alex
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