On April 7, 2010 I received an amazing message on Facebook from someone who saw our story on PBSNOW and would like to help us achieve our dream of becoming parents. I will never forget that morning when I read the message and couldn't wait to wake up Marcio to tell him. We knew we would try for a final time with our last 2 embryos, we just didn't know when the right time would be. We arranged a time to talk and from our first conversation I knew she was a gift from God. At times I felt like everything was too good to be true. I had a great conversation with our attorney in California and he said to me, "until you have reason to be worried, don't be. This is all good." He was so right and to date I have no reason to worry. Marcio and I agreed that we needed to meet in person before moving forward. We flew out to California at the end of May and all the good feelings I had were confirmed when we met our new surrogate and her boyfriend.
So over the past 5 months we have secured insurance for her, received psych eval, got the doc approval for her to be pregnant, filled out a mountain of paperwork, had our FDA blood test done (for the 2nd time) and shipped our precious embryos to Encino California. We have also continued to strengthen our relationship with our surrogate. She grew up in Illinois and was home on vacation in October so we were able to see her and her boyfriend for lunch and then go to our first doctor appointment to test her lining and blood levels. All of which came back perfect!
We have the transfer scheduled for November 16th. I'm so excited, and trying not to be guarded, but after being hurt so many times I can't help it. I know God has a plan for us and I hope that this is part of it...we could end up having 3 little ones all at once and what a blessing that would be.
PS our surrogate does have a name, but at this time I would like to protect her privacy.
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