Diwali celebration at SI

The name 'Diwali' is from the Sanskrit word 'dipavali', which means 'row of lamps'. Diwali is the festival is to mark the return of Rama to Ayodhya after his victory over Ravana, an epic story of Ramayana. To celebrate Ram’s victory, lamps are lit in every house to banish the dark and welcome in good luck and good fortune. Diwali is a festival of light, joy, prosperity and good luck which usually falls sometime at the end of October or in the beginning of November.

Diwali is a festival which we all long for every year and Team SI works in a very professional manner and is the best when it comes to fun and any celebrations. 

We all decided to give a personal touch to this diwali and decided to prepare handmade greeting cards, so we bought handmade papers with different colors. We gave the material to our surrogates. They were very excited to prepare special handmade cards as these cards are for their different doctors whom they routinely meet for their follow up; they have developed a sweet bond with them as well.

We were very apprehensive how the cards will look like, but when they prepared it, we were amazed. They did a fantastic job!!!! So finally the cards were ready! Now we wanted to search a gift and finally selected a tray with 2 round boxes manually decorated by golden beads. The boxes were filled by chocolates and wrapped the gifts with colorful marble paper and tied by a satin ribbon. After wrapping it looked the perfect gift. It was then distributed with the special greeting card to all our associates.

Now, at the moment, we all are getting decorations for our office and SI hospital. Boys are getting beautiful lanterns and ribbons to decorate the walls and ceilings while girls are busy in getting different color rangolis to put in front of the office door. The preparations are still going on and we are just enjoying it.

On Diwali days, we all have planned to wear new clothes, probably Indian ethic wear, salwar suit or saree and boys will wear kurta or chudidar. We will hold a small prayer or puja in our office to honor the Lord Ganesha, the god of wisdom and good luck, the one who removes all obstacles from life; and we will also worship Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity and good fortune. Lights will be left burning all night, so that good luck and good fortune may feel welcome and enter.

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Surrogate Mother celebrating her first Surrogate Child birthday in SI......

Yesterday one of our surrogate who delivered her first surrogate child last year on 14 October' 2010, got a cake in the name of the surrogate child. The surrogate chile is for an Australian couple. She cut cake with other surrogates present in the maternity home near SI.

        She sent her blessings and best wishes too.

  

                                                                                                             

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A beautiful card made by one of our new couple thanking those whoever were involved in making their dream come true of having a baby:-

                                                                      Team SI.........

      Proud SurrogacyIndia baby is in Huggies ad.
      We are as proud as the parent Nick (Aus).

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Thank Goodness SI was on this journey with u........

2 years on……

We are sitting down happily exhausted. It is 7.30pm and our 7 month old twins have gone to sleep for the night. They are all we dreamt and more. We feel blessed every day; we thank SI through our prayers every day. 

 Our dream of children began over 10 years ago. Like many people battling to have children there was the inevitable process of fertility treatments - AIH, IVF, miscarriages, grief and sadness over many years and so attempts. We had applied for adoption but due to our age and the processes in Australia we knew that we may never achieve our dream of bringing up a child. The emotional and financial costs were astronomical and we thought it was the end of the road for us.

In June 2009 we watched a program on international surrogacy. It was the first we had heard of it. We began to investigate options.  It was clear from the first contact that SI was the company that we would go through. We were given information upfront including costs and the process. They were ethical and treated the amazing surrogate mothers very well.  

SI was responsive and compassionate and ever so patient with all of our questions. By September 2009 we were in Mumbai nervous and excited. We got to our hotel room to find flowers and a note from the doctors welcoming us.  It was touches like this that humanised the fertility process.

The process was nerve wracking and there was no magic formula. We had three surrogates and two donors and two very sad early miscarriages before we fell with our babies. 

It is a journey-an emotional and difficult journey  

Thank Goodness SI was on this journey with us

The compassion and care the SI team gave us through the process gave us strength in the grief and the hope to continue. They advised us to wait and grieve before going through it again. Parental well-being is important to them. You are seen and you are heard. They have a team dedicated to helping parents achieve their dream of children. In February 2011 we achieved a double dream – our daughter and son came into this world. The moment we held them it felt like home and peace descended on us and we breathed for the first time in a decade. SI were there to celebrate with us.

They are sleeping soundly now after a big day. We kiss them goodnight and say a prayer for them. We then say a prayer for SI and thank them and for all those who are going through the process. Stay the course; it might seem like an eternity but everything that has gone before disappears once your children are here.  Believe.

G & I

Completion of Surrogacy Journey with some sweet memories .....

It was really a rare yet beautiful moment in SI Office to watch, when a Surrogate Mother presented the Intended Parents Swen & Hege who are from Norway with a beautiful and attractive shawl. The shawl was knitted by the surrogate mother herself, which made it more special. It got more emotional when the Surrogate Mother wrapped the baby with that before giving back the baby to the parents. We felt like it was the moment of completion of Circle of SURROGACY JOURNEY.

                                          Surrogate Mother presenting them the shawl

                                         Surrogate Mother wrapping the baby with the shawl

                                           Baby been given back to the Intended Parent

                                                                        Team SI......

Multiple User Woolen Holder By SM for Dr Sudhir Ajja

This beautiful woollen stuff is knitted by our lovely surrogates. This is made out of wool, some decorative mirror chips and bangles. Imagine making use of bangles which is normally an accessory to women, they made an innovative use of bangles by using it as decorative item. They started working on this three days back. What comes more special is the fact that it was made for Dr Sudhir Ajja, to express their gratitude for the love and respect they got on Raksha Bandhan day. 

Dr Sudhir Ajja was overwhelmed with this kind gesture from our surrogates. The pic only confirms how close a family SI is with their surrogates.

This special stand can be used to keep magazines, papers or even soft toys in it. We all at SI are so surprised to see such innovative things coming from Surrogates.  The best part is, other surrogates are now keen to learn and have started taking lessons from these surrogates. (ohhh... i can bet couples who recognised their surrogates, would be proud).

 

Surrogate Mothers celebrating Raksha Bandhan with Dr Sudhir & SI Staff

Dr Sudhir got a surprise when he came to know that few of our Surrogate Mothers wanted to celebrate Raksha Bandhan with him which is an Indian festival, where a sister ties a beautiful thread (which is called Rakhi) on her brother’s wrist and she gets a gift or anything in kind in exchange. This means that the brother takes the responsibility of protecting his sister from all difficulties that will come across her life. 

Surrogate Mothers in SurrogacyIndia decided tie Rakhi to Dr Sudhir. It was really a emotional and beautiful moment for everyone. They were glad that they could celebrate this festival with Doctor. So now we can say that Dr Sudhir is not just Doctor now he is also a brother for them.

They also celebrated with one of their favourite SI Staff Sachin Shingare.

WE CAPTURED FEW SUCH MOMENTS TO CHERISH .....

                                                                                                                    Team SI...

Psychology sessions conducted for Surrogate Mother

Our Psychologist Ms.Mellisha Kar conducts sessions for our Surrogate Mothers (SM). These counselling sessions are is conducted  for Surrogates so that they can pour out their heart, because every SM goes through several degrees of psychological and personal problems during the processes and these sessions enable them to enhance their coping to deal with such problems effectively. 

Dr. Ms. Kar has categorized her sessions for SM into three ie.

a)   Newly Enrolled

b)   Embryos Transferred

c)   Pregnant Mothers

a)   Newly Enrolled:- Dr. Ms. Kar makes the newly enrolled SMs aware of the process which they will have to undergo. As they are going to be part of the Surrogacy process they are made aware of their responsibilities and facilities they will be provided with in SurrogacyIndia. Basically, the SMs are made familiarized with their all the rules other than medical procedures so that they fully get mentally prepared for the program. They are explained that the program they will be undergoing is for the couple who are unable to conceive naturally. Then along with her even her husband or whoever her guardian is, psycho educated about the whole process. any anxieties related to the process are addressed. The SM is also assessed on various psychological parameters.   

b) Embryos Transferred: - As the Embryos are transferred their responsibilities of being surrogate starts. It is actually the initial stage. So they are worried about their results. Their journey here will start only when their results will be positive. It is observed that they start getting over anxious. They start taking this failure so seriously that they sometimes feel it’s their failure. So these sessions are done to make them relax.

c)   Surrogates who are pregnant: - In these sessions the surrogates who are pregnant are psycho educated about how they should follow a healthy lifestyle. During their cycle the first trimester is very sensitive period where they are supposed to take a very good care of themselves. At times it happens that the surrogate’s health graph starts varying, and most of the time it has been due to their personal or family problems. So during such period our Psychologist helps them to mentally calm down and help them resolve the issue.  As their delivery dates near they start getting very stressed out, so during these sessions they are been positively encouraged relaxation taught and preparing her for the delivery. The important issue of attachment towards the child in the womb is addressed at various levels of pregnancy. Counseling sessions enable the SM to give up the surrogate child without her experincing much emotional problems. SM is helped with to deal with issues of bonding and post partum issues. Basically, our Psychologist acts as the facilitator.

Visit to SI office by one of our lovely couples R & G

 Our lovely couple R & G came to our office day before yesterday with their beautiful kids(  elder son and their twin newborns) and niece.They were as excited as we were when we met each other. They were so warming and friendly. The babies are really cute.

They visited us more than two years back. They saw when we just started from the scratch. R & G spoke how far we have come when we had limited patients then and now we now have a very good count of couples whom we are helping to make their dream come true of having a baby. 

They had a baby boy from us but they wanted to extend their family. So they came back for second pregnancy.... and WHAT they got pregnant for the second time that too with TWINS ( AWESOME......) . Kids are said to be gods gift and we feel they are really special that now they are gifted with three beautiful kids. 


They got a chance to meet both their surrogates. They had a long chat with both the surrogates. Their first Surrogate Mother came to meet them with her whole family. She could buy a new house from the monetary help she got from her surrogacy she did for them. We could see the bonding they had. They were chatting about their kids. Their growing years etc.


What we all liked about them the most was that they themselves took the effort to go and meet all other employees at their respective cabin. All of us were really touched by it. We discussed even our work with them, like who does what. The best part was when they gave us their inputs on how we can add new changes in our work.


They always used tell how they are fascinated by Indian culture. We are happy that we all could meet them in person becuase we got to know many things from them like when we started how the work atmosphere it was and now how it as changed after so many years wiht all new bunch of young team members.


We all will really cherish the moments we had with you all. 
Lots of Love.


                                                                                                                Team SI.......

Our Support Group, our lovely Online Forum

It is extremely sad to know that our beautiful Support Group forum is not functioning where we have nearly 1000 members with invaluable information available.

For all of your information, Our forum was hosted on a domain site called Forum5.com

When ever our forum went down, we could reach to Customer Service at Forum5.com and resolve the concerns.

It is the first time in last 3 years, that we are not able to reach the parent domain www.Forum5.com. We are trying our best to reach the forum5 administrators and resolve the issues.

Lastly we would like to inform all our friends that SI has absolutely no control on the present status of the forum. We are praying that we get atleast the database, so that we can host it on some other site.

Thank you for your support.

                                                                                                                    Team SI..

What you can find in SI Guide ?

 SI has newly introduced a Guide for those who are interested in our program but are less aware of the functions. Here we have tried to elaborate every thing in a very simple and easy way. It is a very user friendly guide.

The guide has everything from start to end. It has got answers for all your queries. Like how you can reach to us, how to enrol with us, what you can expect from the program, whether to go for self cycle or use egg donors, the finance, legal factors, how to arrange your visits, how you will be kept updated about your SM’s health graph etc.

Detailed information about certain topics will be accessible only if you are enrolled with us. So you can look forward of having an interesting, well aware and safe Surrogacy Journey with us.

To view our SI Guide Click Here 

                                                                                              Team SI...       

Dear all,

This message is for those have been following our forum regularly, that due to some technical error the forum won't be accessible for few days. We tried to contact the Customer Care of Forum but those calls went unanswered. So meanwhile we would request you all to wait for some time, as soon as it wil be accessible we will be updating you all.

Thanks & Regards
Team SI.