Gay couple finally gets their baby boy after 2 years of waiting

The AP reports: A child trapped more than two years in Ukraine by bureaucratic hurdles has arrived in Brussels with his parents, a pair of legally married Belgian men, ending the couple's long legal battle to bring their son home.

Samuel Ghilain arrived with his parents — Peter Meurrens and Laurent Ghilain — Saturday to a crowd of thrilled relatives and waiting journalists.

"It has been better than we thought to see him again after one year," Meurrens said at Brussels' main airport, adding that he felt "lots of joy and relief to him again."

"This morning was the most stressful of my life until we got the final message from Lviv in Ukraine that they passed border control and were on the plane," he said. "That was incredible."

He said the couple wept when they met the boy again at a prearranged meeting point in Warsaw and that Samuel was immediately at ease when they held him.

Some of the pair's relatives wept, as well, when the couple and the boy came into view at the Brussels airport. Meurren's mother, Dina de Graer, carried a yellow stuffed duck as a gift for her grandson.

Samuel, now aged 2 years and 3 months, was born to a surrogate mother in Ukraine in November 2008. Meurrens and Ghilain cradled him in their arms shortly after his birth and saw him a number of times after that.

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