Season 8, Episode 8:Jeff Lewisand Gage Edward’s First Meeting with Alexandra Trent

Edward and Lewis, along with his longtime number two, Jenni Pulos, met with Trent over dinner in season 8, episode 8. Edward described her as “just perfect” and “a good person.” While Lewis didn’t quite show his hand, he did relay he was toldshe had “a beautiful uterus.”

Trent, who at the time already had two children, 3 years and 6 months, also told the group her motive for wanting to be a surrogate. “I’ve grown up with a lot of gay couples around me and a lot of them who I’ve seen struggle with starting families. I think it’s unfair, so I want to balance the playing field.”

The story picks up in season nine, when Lewis and Edward have settled on Trent as their surrogate and are deciding which embryos to use in their attempt to get pregnant. Despite, the rather clinical conversation, the process clearly strikes a chord with Lewis, who wonders, “I mean I’d like to think I’m going to be a good parent, but I’m sure I’m gonna make lots of mistakes. We should just have two in case I f— up the first one.”

Jeff also reveals he wants to use his embryos first because he’s older, at 48, than his partner.

Season 9, Episode 2: The Embryo Is Implanted

In the very next episode, viewers see the soon-to-be expectant dads watch from behind a wall of glass as a team of doctors get ready to implant Jeff’s embryo. He jokes that he bets they get it wrong and use the wrong one all the time to an already anxious Edward.

They sit in the waiting area, as the medical staff in the procedure room can be heard saying, “Jeffrey Thomas Lewis, one embryo number 14” and “Let’s make it happen. Here it goes.”

They also get a surprise when the doctor lets them know there is a second gestational sac, and Trent says, “I kind of felt like that might be the case.” Of course, as it turns out, the couple learns they are not, in fact, expecting twins.

Season 9, Episode 6: Ultrasound Number Two Puts a Smile on Lewis’s Face

At another ultrasound, Edward explains of his partner’s reaction to the experience, “I’ve been excited since the heartbeat, I think Jeff . . . he’s now really seeing it. Every time, it becomes more and more real.”

Season 10, Episode 1: Lewis and Edward Stress About Getting to the Hospital as the Due Date Approaches

As their due date gets closer, the couple realize being present for their daughter’s birth is more complicated than they expected. Trent lives in Chico, in Northern California, and they will need to fly there as quickly as possible when they find out she’s in labor.

“I can’t imagine where we just couldn’t get up there and she was just born and we’re not the first people to meet our daughter. It’s just a nightmare that runs over and over in my head, that we would miss the birth,” says Edward.

Season 10, Episode 3: Trent Goes Into Labor

They finally get the news that Trent’s labor is imminent while out to eat with Jeff’s family, and make the call to head to Chico.

Clips of the birth episode have been removed from Bravo.com, but Lewis and Edward did make it to Trent’s birthing suite in time and were there to welcome Monroe Christine on October 25, 2016.

“At 4:22pm today, I grew up. Welcome Monroe Christine Lewis,” Lewis wrote in aFacebookpost at the time.

“So hopefully we are going to have a boy,” Lewis announced. “Not yet though, we’re not pregnant yet.”

source: people.com