New calendar

Got my new calendar and looks like August 24th could be the magic date! I start Lupron on Saturday and then those dreaded PIO injections on Aug 19th. Ugh! 

Anywho, just wanted to keep my blog buddies updated and hopefully all will go well this time. Fingers crossed!!! 

XOXO

-Krystal

Call from the clinic

The donor ovulated early and our cycle is cancelled. Stopping meds and getting back on those evil BCPs tonight...transfer will probably be late August now. :,( I'm really bummed and I know my IM is as well. Anything that could go wrong pretty much has this time around.

I'll keep u posted...

Bump in the road

My appointment on Monday went well...wait for an hour and a half to be seen for 3 minutes. Good times. 

The egg donor also had an appointment, which I was later told didn't go quite as planned. Apparently she has a cyst and has to go back this coming Monday, the 1st, to see if it has "resolved". If it has then our transfer will only be delayed by a few days, but if it's still there then we will have to cancel the cycle. Bummer. Total bummer! 

I don't know what happens after a cancelled cycle...do they remove the cyst, do my IPs try to find a new donor or what? I'm hoping I don't have to find out. 

Please keep your fingers (& toes) crossed that the cyst is gone on Monday!!! How much more could this journey stall!?! Seriously!!!! 

I'll be back to update on Monday as soon as I know something. TTYL peeps! 

Gettin' the party started!

We're getting closer!!! Only about 30 days until transfer!! I started Lupron on Saturday and even though, in my mind, I knew that these injections were not at all painful I still hesitated when it came to actually sticking myself in the stomach with the tiny needle! I was laughing at myself...can only imagine how the PIO injections will go :\

Just call me Walgreens

My last day to be on birth control (b/c) is this Thursday, the 20th. Thank GAWD! It's evil! I have the world's worst headaches while taking them and they make me nauseous! Bleh!

I go to the RE next Monday for a baseline u/s to check my lining....I'll keep you posted.

Holla!

Transfer date!!

Got my calendar from the clinic yesterday and we have a tentative transfer date of July 16th! YAY!!! Bout time we got something going!

I start Lupron on June 15th, then all the other meds will follow accordingly. I talked to the coordinator at the clinic about doing Crinone instead of the PIO injections and she seemed to think it would be okay, but when I got my calendar it still had the PIO on there. :\ I asked her about it and she said that Dr. K "strongly encourages" doing the PIO injections at least until the pregnancy is confirmed. UGH!! Not cool. I suppose I can deal with a daily shot in the ass for 3 weeks rather than the normal 12 weeks! Kev's gonna have to brush up on his shot administering skills....or maybe I can get my mom's cousin, who's an RN, to do them for me! ☺

Here's the shortened version of my calendar:
6/15 Begin Lupron
6/20 Last BCP (thank goodness!)
6/24 Ultrasound (baseline lining check) & labs; start Estrace
6/28 Increase Estrace to 2x day
7/1 Increase Estrace to 3x day
7/8 Ultrasound (lining check) and labs
7/11 Tentative date to start PIO
7/16 Possible transfer

It's becoming more real!!!

P.S. Still not happy about the damn shots!! Ok....done whining........for now ;)

Talk to you soon!

Illusive contract, conquered!

FINALLY GOT OUR CONTRACT!!!!! Signed, sealed, delivered! Whew! Thank goodness that's done and over with, geez!
Thankful that all that drama was behind me, I called the clinic, as instructed, once AF came and they were supposed to call in the Rx for BCPs. Simple, right? WRONG.
The nurse coordinator at the clinic proceeded to tell me "oh, we're not gonna start you on birth control just yet, your IPs haven't chosen a donor" SAY WHAT!? I told her that she must be mistaken because my IPs told me in February that they'd chosen a donor and got it all squared away, but she was insistent that there was no donor. Grrrrrr!!!!!! So I emailed my IPs asking what was going on and I texted my agency coordinator. After a bunch of back and forth, what it boiled down to was miscommunication. Go figure. From my understanding, the agency hadn't sent over the donor's info to the clinic, so the clinic was unaware that my IPs had, indeed, secured a donor.
So, I finally got my BCPs and am now awaiting our calendar, but from what I'm told, we should be having a transfer some time in July, around the 16th. **Fingers crossed** I'm so excited!! Well.....not about the huge needles I'm gonna have to stick in my behind, but excited about everything else! ☺ Speaking of which, I'm going to ask the RE if I can do Crinone (progesterone suppositories) instead of the PIO injections. I mean, after all, I DID get preggo last time while I was on Crinone ☺ And when I did have to do PIO, it gave me a horrible side effect....my left hip was literally numb for MONTHS after I stopped the shots! It was absolutely horrible; I wasn't sure if the feeling was ever going to come back, but thank goodness it did. I really don't want to have to go through that if there are other options. Ya know?
Enough about that; guess what my super sweet IPs did? They sent a beautiful arrangement of roses to me for Mother's Day!! It was very unexpected and much appreciated.

I can't wait until they can celebrate their own Mother's and Father's Day :) Hopefully soon!!!
I don't really have anything else to report right now. I'm just ready to get things going! We've been moving at a snail's pace and as we all know, I'm not the most patient person on the planet.  I know I'm late updating and I promise I'll do better. That's all I got people! Ttyl!

Surros ROCK! (if I do say so myself)

 

Quoted perfectly from my surro-sister, Shannon:

 

"Want to read something AMAZING????? Every woman in this group is currently a Surrogate or has been a Surrogate. Some MORE than once!! I am not the ONLY crazy woman out there willing to share my body for approximately 40 weeks to help create a baby miracle!! In just these 15 woman alone, together we have created 23 babies, helping build 17 families!!! 7 of us are currently pregnant. 10 more babies are baking and adding on helping build 7 more families!!! Which leaves a GRAND total of 33 babies building 24 families.... How AWESOME to be a part of this!!! This group of woman are truly AMAZING!"

 

This weekend I had the pleasure of attending 2 surro get-togethers; one was coordinated by my agency and the other was put together by my surro support group on FB. Both were a great time and I'm so glad that I have these ladies in my life! There's nothing better than being able to talk about boobs hurting, lactating, stretchy skin, and dropping F-bombs in the delivery room and not feeling embarrassed! :-) I don't know what I'd do without them!

 



Agency luncheon

As far as where I'm at in the process.....still no contract, but hopefully by the end of this week. (Fingers crossed) Apparently there was some kind of hang up with the company that verifies insurance and then my IP's attorney had a death in the family, so that set us back as well. All I know is, it's time to get this thang goin'!! After being around all those preggo ladies this weekend, I'm having belly fever! I'm ready to help create another family and cannot wait to see my IP's faces when they hold their little one for the 1st time.

On another note, I'm taking a page out of my blog buddy Mark's book and have started juicing! I'm on day 3 and have already lost weight. It's not easy, by any means, but it's well worth it when I see results happening already. Yea, I wanted a sh*tload of non-sense on my 1st day, cookies, donuts, Snickers, chicken; you name it, I wanted it! BUT fighting that temptation is rewarding enough in itself even if I hadn't lost any weight. I just wanted to get a bit healthier before we started cycling for a transfer (those meds pack on the lbs) :\ I'm planning on doing this for 10 days....pray for me!! Eeekkk!  

Anywho, that's all I have for now. Hopefully I'll be able to get the finalized contract soon and we'll be on our way to baby makin'!!

TTYL!