Inconceivable and beyond :-)

[Garnet]

Dmama, we are all rooting for you! It will be great!

 

[jooba85]

Hello to all the beautiful ladies on here!

Sorry I have been rather MIA the last few days. We're renovating the house at the moment (including designing the new nursery! ) - so things are CRAZY. Because I'm not working at the moment, I'm doing as much as I can to save us some money on the labour. A lot of our plans aren't complicated, they are just time consuming, so I'm happy to just plod along slowly getting stuff done. Makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something

Glad to hear of everyone's progress! 2have, with so many irons in the fire, something will happen for you - I know it!

Sienna - so exciting! It's weird, when we decided that we were going to proceed with donor eggs, I asked hubby how he would feel if it turned out his swimmers were no good and we had to use donor sperm too. He looked so offended at first! Men and their junk, hey? Then he started listing all the people he would and would not consider "using" for their sperm and why. It was hilarious. "That nose on MY child? You've GOT to be kidding!" Of course, he was "perfect", and still brags about his "super sperm" all the time!

Welcome to the new ladies! I hope you find the same love and support on here as I have.

My nuchal scan is next Tuesday (14th) - my donor's birthday! So I'm going to have my scan in the a.m and then we're going to spend the day spoiling ourselves with a day out - lunch, mani's, pedi's (she'll drink too much champagne and I'll be driving!).

Hope everyone is having a smashing weekend

 

[2have4kids]

Oh what a lovely day on out your nt date/her bday. She's a lucky woman, champagne & dd, you're treating her well

My back feels broken, just moved wood from 5 fallen 30 year old trees. Will have a lovely toasty winter! Mom's happy that her lot is cleared and we're both wanting a lovely dinner out after a hard day.

Take care my lovelies! Muah

 

[2have4kids]

Hi ladies, did you all have a good weekend? Lorna how you feeling?

I met with the lady from the website who will potentially be our surro. She's amazing, I think this is going to work.

I think we should start a little tally at the front of this thread for all the pregnant ladies & those who're lining up the next attempt. There's so much going on it's getting exciting!

Who's next then? Drama, Sienna just before Christmas and then Leilani, Minno & I?

 

[LornaMJ]

Hey girls all good here thanks just BAD migraines and tired all the time but I am happy with symptoms. Had my second beta today and it was 1645 which gives me a doubling time of 38 hours yay sooooo happy with this.

Jooba - That will be an excting scan so lovely you are taking your ED out

2havekids - Soooo pleased to hear you have met up with teh surro and you like her all sounds very promising.

Sounds a great idea to put some thing up with regards to where we are at I will edit my original post. Please can all the ladies remind me where you are at. Wjat headings shall I go with?

 

[Leilani]

Hi all :wave:

I'm currently in Cape Town, having a bit of a nightmare of a time! I was last here in April on my own, as we had frozen sperm, however, on the day of the donor's EC I had a call from the clinic to say the thawed sperm was all lifeless, in the end they managed to ICSI 6 eggs anyway, but unsurprisingly despite getting 2 embies transferred on day 3 I wasn't pregnant.

So fast forward to last Monday when we had our lining scan at the clinic, the Dr said my lining wasn't ready (never had lining issues before) and he prescribed me a short course of Viagra and upped my progynova dose, Weds am we took DH's sample in to use with our 9 frozen eggs. We assumed all was ok and was told to start with the gestone jabs. On Thursday, whilst we were out walking, enjoying the fabulous weather, we had a call from the clinic to say the eggs were pretty rubbish when they thawed them and none had fertilised. The clinic said they had donor eggs in the egg bank we might be interested in using, but would have to decide pretty much immediately, and DH would have to produce another sample that day, as I had already started on the gestone, so my body couldn't wait. We rushed to the clinic, through a busy Cape Town and navigating some badly signed roadworks detours to get there in about 40 minutes. The donor profile looked great, somebody we would have actually considered had we seen her profile whilst looking. DH was then under pressure to perform in the toilet of the clinic, he said it was terrible, but he managed it! (I told them not to start thawing the eggs until he'd done his part, just in case!). On Friday we got the call to say 4 of the 6 eggs fertilised, then later in the day another call to say embryo transfer would be Monday (day 4 which I thought odd, but I guess the Dr wanted Sunday off, which is a bit rude). We got a call from the lab yesterday to say 2 of the 4 are still dividing. So now it's Monday, and ET is in 6 hours, it's going to be the longest morning ever.

Sorry for the novel, but this has been a stressful week, when it should have been a quite straightforward one. I hope everyone else is having a more serene time than us!

Lorna, do you have a scan date? Have you told your donor?

Jooba, make sure we get to see some pics of your nursery, do you have a theme in mind?

2have, glad thing are moving along and you met your potential surro.

Dmama, how are you feeling, have you done anything special to prepare for your cycle?

Hi Garnet, Mells and Sienna :wave:

 

[Garnet]

Well Leilani,
I think sometimes things happen for a reason so I'm sure you are gonna have two good reasons soon! Excited for you and good luck!

 

[hockey24]

Hello ladies! I just saw the post about the new thread. Unfortunate that you had the drama but as we all know - the baby making process can make us all a little crazy sometimes! Glad there is a new thread that is open to everyone!

I've been out of the loop a bit with two almost "1" year old twin boys - but will read over and catch up. I see alot of familiar names so I need to get myself up to date!

Attached is a pic of my boys....

 

[Garnet]

Hi Hockey,
Yes we have thread that we can share everything! I cannot believe your boys are 1. Has time gone that quickly! They are handsome little guys! I remember rooting for you, when you got pregnant,and had them!

 

[2have4kids]

Leilani thank goodness you made it through, I have fingers and toes crossed for you!
Hockey your boys are really handsome!
I just got back from a scan after 5 days of taking chlomid and I think it's given me 2 cysts. They can't see any eggs in there, just masses of water
On a positive note, I did ask for a letter for surrogacy and she said because I don't have my parts removed she can't write ordering them to do surrogacy but she did craft it in such a way saying that she recommends this path and because we can't do it locally she would appreciate help with this matter. So that's one letter from the RI, one from the FS, and after work today I meet with my GP to get a third letter. Hopefully that is enough for them to help me out.

 

[Leilani]

2have, I'm so glad your doctors are so supportive of your decision and are willing to help.

It wasn't smooth sailing for us today, and I now have 2 decent blasts on board via embryo donation, full details in my journal, but it has been a super stressful day!

Hockey your boys are delicious, I bet they're a handful?!

 

[Garnet]

2have,
Sorry about the Clomid trial. Glad Dr was willing to go around things and get you a letter supporting your surrogate plans!

 

[crystal443]

Hi ladies!!!!

2have, fab news and I think you'll be fine I am so glad the new surro sounds perfect Sucks about the Clomid but you know you tried

Leilani, Oh wow best of luck to you!! 2 blasts on board this is going to be your time

Jooba, perfect day for your 12 weeks scan!!! I hope you have a wonderful scan/birthday with your donor

Hockey, Oh wow, your boys are almost one it seems like you just had them and they are so cute! Are they walking yet?

Lorna, I get migraines as well and it is tough My dotor told me to take strong pain or paracetemol with codeine because my blood pressure goes up if I'm in pain and I'm already on blood pressure meds. Drink lots of water and rest, hope you feel better soon!

Hi everyone!!

I find it hard to get on everyday, I'm so tired and by afternoon I just don't have the energy. So I thought I'd see how everyone is this morning Here are my last scan pics :

 

[2have4kids]

LOVELY scans! Beautiful Crystal!!!

 

[sienna]

Leilani what a stressful time you’ve had, fingers crossed for two sticky beans
Hockey your boys are gorgeous are they a handful?
2have I’m sorry the clomid didn’t work the surrogacy sounds like it is now progressing
Crystal thanks for sharing your scan photo’s its lovely to see your twins

 

[Minno]

2have, so sorry to hear about the clomid trial but great news about supporting letters for surrogacy. What's the next steps for you with that?
Hockey - wow your boys are gorgeous, can't believe that's a year passed already!!
Hello and love to everyone else xxx

 

[hollyhopeful2]

Hockey what beautiful boys! I remember the excitement when you had them last year

2have: like everyone else, sorry for the clomid drama but happy you have a doctor supporting your surrogacy! Praying it works out for you

Hi to everyone else!

 

[2have4kids]

2have, so sorry to hear about the clomid trial but great news about supporting letters for surrogacy. What's the next steps for you with that?

Hi Minno I got your pm, will respond soon. It was our 7 year wedding anniversary yesterday (16 years together) and DH is really sick, celebrated with chicken soup, toast, tea and an evening of Netflix

The next step is to have our surro lady meet DH to see if she's comfortable with him. The surro letters are being drafted by the docs and once I have them need to send copies to the doctor in Czech Rep to approve moving forward. Then counselling for surro lady with us and for her & her family. Then the legal agreement hopefully in December sometime. We have to lay deposit by Jan 1 for the April cycle. Praying that everything works out smoothly!!

 

[2have4kids]

I find it hard to get on everyday, I'm so tired and by afternoon I just don't have the energy. So I thought I'd see how everyone is this morning Here are my last scan pics :

You must be approaching the end of first tri? I hear you get your energy back in second tri. And hopefully with getting off some of the meds it'll help with your migraines. Sorry to hear you're having a rough go Crystal!

 

[Butterfly67]

Leilani congrats on being pupo even though it sounds like you had a pretty stressful time. It's great you were able to see a pic of the embies brother

2have, glad that a bit of progress has been made with the surro but bummer about the clomid

Hockey your boys are gorgeous

Crystal lovely pics

Good to see everyone else here xxx