Dear Surrogate,

First, thank you so much for reading our application, and for considering us for your surrogacy journey. We can’t imagine what you are about to go through, but we look forward to going through this journey with you.

We are Gui (31) and Aron (32), a same-sex couple living in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. We’ve been together for 6 years now, but the wish of starting a family was something that we both expressed ever since we started dating. We both dreamed of starting a family, raising kids (we see ourselves having two kids), and teaching them everything we know: from riding a bike (an essential skill in the Netherlands!) to how to deal with life’s twists, turns, ups, and downs. After enjoying our late twenties traveling the world together, building successful and stable careers, and moving to our own house, we felt that it was finally time to pursue our dream of starting a family.

The path to parenthood as a same-sex couple in the Netherlands is not an easy nor simple one. We were always a bit distressed about the financial motivation surrounded surrogacy, but we were so excited when we learned about the possibilities of surrogacy in Canada and the altruistic nature of it. We want to tell our future kid that the women that helped their fathers in their journey to start a family really did it out of love and for the wish to help another family! To us, this represents the start of a very special bond with you and your family. Words cannot describe how much we appreciate you considering being a surrogate for us, and we’d love to be there for you and with you every step of the way – before, during, and after the pregnancy. We hope to form a close bond with you and your family, and have meaningful and memorable exchanges during the pregnancy. Although we live far away, we’ll do our best to make it feel like we’re right there with you! And after the pregnancy, we’d love to keep a bond and stay in touch. We may be far in distance (not so much actually, Canada and the Netherlands are closer than expected), but we’ll always feel close to the heart.

We’ve been living in Rotterdam, the second biggest city in the Netherlands, for a while now. Aron has studied in the city, so he already considers himself a Rotterdamer. Gui moved in at the end of 2019, but he was already very familiar to the city after visiting Aron every other day. Then, in December 2022, we moved into a family home that is close to the city center but also walking distance to nature, where we love to go for bike rides and afternoon walks. Our home is a lively place to be, as we often have family and friends over. Aron’s brother, his wife, and our little nephew live around the block, and visit almost every week. We love spending time with our nephew – babysitting him, taking him for walks, or just playing with him on the floor. We’re also appointed as legal guardians in case anything happens to my brother and his wife; they are also already appointed as legal guardians of our future children in our wills.

Besides spending time with family, we also often host friends for hangouts and dinners. We love to host people, so very often our international friends will visit us for the weekend, visiting from Italy, Germany, Spain, Brazil, and all over the Netherlands! We know that going away can be tiresome, so we love making people feel at home away from home.

In our professional lives, Gui is an electrical engineer that designs car chips, and Aron works in strategy and new business development for a company that sells charging stations for electric cars. Although we both love our jobs, we like spending our time as a family even better. We’ll both start working four days a week when we have a child to make sure to spend as much time as possible together.

In our free time, we love to be active together. We are part of an LGBT squash club, and we do speed bike in the surroundings of Rotterdam a lot whenever the weather in the Netherlands allows. In our holidays we enjoy exploring other countries and cultures, whether that’s going on a wine tour in neighboring France, visiting countries on the other side of the world, or visiting Gui’s family in Brazil.

As we both come from different backgrounds, we love exploring and sharing our culture together. We’re very much looking forward to expanding our multi-cultural family and sharing our experiences, hobbies, and love with our future children. We are over the moon, and so grateful, that you are considering supporting us in making this dream come true. We would love to get to know you, and if that feeling is mutual, please let us know, we’re very happy to answer any other questions that you might have!

Much Love,

Gui and Aron