About us
Alessandro works at an HR software company in Barcelona, Spain, while Mijndert works as a Captain and Airline Pilot for the biggest airline company in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We love to spend our free time together, and since Mijndert works part-time, we do have a considerable amount of free time. We met in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where Alessandro was drawn to after his University in Hospitality in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Mijndert was drawn to it because he wanted to live closer to the airport. It is also the place where we got engaged, married, and got our dog Simba, so it has a lot of fond memories for us.
Family
Family is very important to us, and luckily, traveling is very easy when you work in the industry. We go to Brazil as often as possible, and Mijndert’s family lives not that far from the Airport in Amsterdam, so that is never a problem. Family and friends are also the reason we will be moving back to the Netherlands in 2025. We want to be closer to our friends and family there and to have that support system in place for when we have our children.
Alessandro was born in Brazil and grew up in a very small town, to be more precise, he grew up 20km away from that town in the countryside/jungle. He has two brothers; one lives in Sao Paulo, and the other lives in the countryside village, where his mother also lives together with his grandmother. The brother in Sao Paulo has a son, and we are always delighted when we get to babysit him.
Mijndert was born in Gouda to a family in the bike industry and has one brother. So yes, the city of Gouda cheese and a bike family, how Dutch can you get!? After working for a few years, he turned his career around, did pilot school, and has been working as a pilot ever since.
Surrogacy journey so far
We are blessed with 26 frozen embryos, of which 10 are PGT-A tested. Even though we are blessed with this number, it means nothing without you, and therefore, we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for even considering us as intended parents.
Kitchen Talk
Cooking is a big thing for us, and we both love to do it. Whether it is Brazilian cuisine, Italian, or old-fashioned Dutch cuisine, we will love to make it and take our time with it. That also means visiting special supermarkets etc. For our new home in The Netherlands, we are therefore looking for a big kitchen where people can sit at a counter while we are cooking since we love to interact while doing so. Even our dog Simba is to be found in the Kitchen while we are there, although we are pretty sure he is there for the food.
With you
When it comes to the future, we do envision it together. We would like an open communication where everyone at different moments can say what they like or don’t like. This journey will be a collaboration, so it is important that we all feel as comfortable as we can get. Of course, we will reimburse you accordingly in this journey this goes without saying, and you can trust us on that.
Since traveling is very easy for us, it is possible to visit you at certain moments during and after the pregnancy, and we would love to get in contact with you about the moments that you feel comfortable with.
With the making of the video, we hope to give you more of a backstory and an insight into who we are individually, as a couple, and how we are in real life, and we look forward to hearing your story. Thank you for considering us as your intended parents.