Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy
Prevention of the Exploitation or Coercion of Surrogates and Intending Parents: Discussion
Ms Victoria Reid:
My experience and that of Ms O’Shea are so similar. It was exactly the same for us. Sophie was born into her mammy's arms and off they went. The second person to meet Sophie was her daddy and I was lucky enough to be the third person. Again, it was on the ward, so they had those two hours as a family before they were stuck with me for five days. Even down to the pregnancy test, of course, I had to take a test but I was not in the room for the results. That was Emma and Michael. They had that moment. Insofar as we could give them their own experience, we did. They came into the room to tell me the results and it was amazing to be part of that and of my little sister's journey. We tried to give them as much of their own experience as we could. In that regard, I met my niece in the ward in the same way my other sisters did.
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