Their Bun, My Oven

My journey as a first time Surrogate

Archive for August, 2012

Embryos transferred? Check! :-)

Sunday, August 26th, 2012

We did it! We transferred the embryos! Yup, two embryos. After a few days of thought and talking, we all decided that we wanted to go for it. Three of the embryos looked good, two looked the best, so we decided to try for both. There is a 40% chance of twins and I think [...]

Final check-in before the transfer

Friday, August 24th, 2012

The embryo transfer is set! It’s definitely this Sunday at 10:20am! I am SO excited, and nervous! The IP’s are going to be there, I am so happy that they will get to experience this with me! I wanted to talk a little about the new medications I started. I started the intramuscular progesterone injections [...]

Here we go!

Saturday, August 18th, 2012

Yes, I know I posted yesterday, but I have very exciting news! I got a call from Stanford today and found out the transfer is set for one of two possible days. It will either be Saturday the 25th, or Monday the 27th. It is a little later then I had anticipated, but at least [...]

We’re getting close!

Friday, August 17th, 2012

I went to Stanford yesterday to have another ultrasound and to get blood drawn. A male resident performed the ultrasound this time. He had a rough start trying to insert the ultrasound wand, ouch! But after it was in it went fairly well, still uncomfortable and slightly painful as usual. They said that my ovary [...]

More updates…

Friday, August 10th, 2012

So, I don’t have much to blog about this week, so here are some more updates… I am still doing Lupron injections and have gone up to three patches of estrogen a day, every other day. I must say, I am starting to feel a change in my body. I am starting to get nauseous [...]

Updates

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

I wanted to give everyone a general update about appointments, medications, and weight loss. I went to Stanford again on Wednesday and had another ultra sound. This one was pretty unpleasant, more so then the last three. My doctor came in and with her was a nurse in training. The nurse in training did my [...]