Saturday, December 10, 2011

SOME MORE WAITING.....

Well, as much as I love talking to my coordinator from TSE, Tina, (I'm really not sure if that is her title.. I just gave it to her, lol)  we did have a talk this week about my, soon to begin, journey. 

She emailed me on wednesday and wanted to call and talk about everything.  It seems when they did the egg retreived on my IM they only got 2 embies, which is ok, but they weren't the best quality.  She was suppose to have her period again last week, in which they would plan the next egg retreival, but it never came.  So, they are planning on forcing a period on monday if she still hasn't started. 

I think Tina really just wanted me to understand this is probably going to push us out another couple of months.  I cannot even explain how much I truely love this agency, and most of all, Tina.  They are the most caring and supportive group.  She explained to me that S and J really still want to work with me, but understand if I don't want to wait another few months. 

John and I talked about this in great length.  I know I don't know S and J very well, but I am was so in love with their profile and after talking to them on the conference call, I guess I just knew, they were the ones.  We both really want to stay with them and I am fine with waiting a little longer to make sure we get some good embies.  Tina was happy to hear that. 

I am so excited about this journey.  I'm just ready for it to begin already!  lol  Hopefully tuesday we will hear something about what the plan is next.  But, we're probably looking at a late February or early March transfer.  So I guess that means I will travel to New York in late January or early February?  IDK, I guess time will only tell.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Just starting the journey

Well, to be exact I started it in May.  I emailed the agency I'm working with now, the surrogacy experience, and asked for more information.  I immediately got an email back from Nancy.  She was wonderful.  Stated they were sending a bunch of paperwork out for me to fill out and send back.  After that it was tons of requesting medical records, calling offices, waiting for offices to mail me back records, etc.  It took until mid July for them to get all the records and be approved. 

Tina, from TSE, came to visit in early August and she was GREAT!  She pretty much expelled any worry I had about doing this.  I was so excited after meeting her. 

I finally got my first intended parent profile to look over..... Can I say love at first sight????  I was so incredibly happy to see that profile and to hear how wonderful they are.  I had our first conference call with the IP's on 10/10.  John and I both were super excited to finally get to talk to them.  It seems like these last few months of waiting are finally paying off.  Whew... they were wonderful and I decided right after hanging up the phone we were definitely the perfect match! 

So, fast forward a month and my IM is starting on her meds monday.  They will check her to see how shes doing a few days afterwards and hopefully I will get a lovely email from Tina saying we are moving forward and a timeline for everything. 

I am so looking forward to the journey.  I didn't realize until today how long this has really taken.  I feel like it is so hard to be patient sometimes, but I guess I'm doing a pretty good job since its been 6 months already!  I'm really hoping they will want me up there the week of the 19th of December because I'm already taking that week off of work, but oh well, if its not.  We can cross that bridge when we get there!