Thanks for linking.
Personally, Devora when I first read it I thought the journalist might have their own agenda. The phrase 'A touch too quickly, Oona adds: ‘I didn’t love him more than the others.' is rather horrible. Who is the jouralist to assume the phrase is too quick! The implication might be that Oona loved him more but wanted to quickly say that she did not, where as I would read it that she did not want people to think she would love her biological baby more than her exisiting children!
But then it says 'Her haste perhaps reveals a deep-rooted concern that others will assume she will favour her biological child, with his genetic and physical resemblance to his parents, over her adopted children.'
Which is just what I thought.
I think the story is kind of set up to look at some of the posible negative affects of it all! I also felt that if you read about her desire for a biologicla child it does says the embryos were fertilised earlier and maybe it was only the knowledge that they would be destroyed that promoted the couple to find a surrogate and attempt to create a baby with the embryos.
I felt how weird the hospital had a fridge with champagne but not a working resuscitator!
I guess with so many children looked after now and in need of homes it would be wonderful to think that blended families of birth and adopted children could be seen as a positive family experience and not something potentially fraught with problems (even though there may be problems).
The kids are all beautiful, I think they look like her. But ultimately, whoever looks like who (my birth daughter doesn't look much like me!) it's love and care and commitment to the family that matters, not biology (IMHO).
I like her, I love it when she says.... "Most of the world seems to think blood is thicker than water but, for me, the opposite seems true: love is more important than genetics. I love all my children to distraction."