Willem's birth mother has been back in touch again. It's been tentative and emotional on both sides, but I think it's going well. At least, Willem's handling it with sensitivity and she seems to recognize that she's not the only one in all sorts of wild and crazy turmoil over this. They each care about each other, and even if nothing else ever develops from that relationship, I think that's a huge, important thing for them both to know.

I don't, actually, have very much to say about it all, because it's so new and shaky and uncertain, but stay tuned. I have my suspicions that there's going to be some cosmic parallels between surrogacy and adoption coming up this year...