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!