A Small Update but a Huge Heck Ya!

We got the news a couple days ago that all of our labs came back NORMAL at our appointment on the 9th! Yippee! All is good to go! We now have to focus on getting all the legal done before I need to start medications. If anything should happen to where we can not get all the legal done by September 11th then that will postpone our transfer date. As of right now our transfer date will still be October 13th. :)

I began taking prenatal vitamins four days ago and let me just say, yuck! The after taste is awful and I thought I was going to puke for sure. I realized I had not ate anything so I quickly did so and felt MUCH better. I took these same prenatal pills when I was pregnant with Ava and they never made me sick, thank goodness! I did not start taking them until I was already pregnant though so there might be a little bit of a difference in how they affect me as of now until I am pregnant. Glad to say it has already been better taking the prenatal pills and no signs of uneasiness as long as I eat with them.

Tomorrow I begin the first step in the medication process, birth control. Strange right? The clinic we are going to only does transfers 2 week out of every month therefore they put me on birth control at a specific time to line up my cycle with theirs. Make sense? This process regulates my cycle and gets me ready to start Lupron (the next step in the med process). I will be on birth control a total of 29 days and then one less pill. I'll take it! :)

Birth Control & Small Black Pouch Comes With It

Right now I am feeling pretty pumped up! Maybe a little too pumped up because we do still have a couple months before our transfer but just knowing that the ball is rolling makes me feel awesome! I'm anxious to start the legal part of things on our side as E and A are mostly all set to go with their side of things. We are still waiting for our lawyer to contact us for a meeting to get things going. So, we sit here and play the waiting game for a little while and everything will end up all going into place as it usually does. I guess I am just ready to make things official official. Yep, two officials are better than one!

E was telling me that many IP's going through the process of setting up the contracts will require a specific diet for the surrogate to follow. Wow! They laughed when their lawyer asked if they would be putting that in the contract. I'm so happy to have such laid back and supportive IP's. I replied that it wouldn't be so bad having a calorie count in our contract, then maybe I would only gain 20-25 lbs instead of 55! Goodness Gracious! I have learned my lesson especially now that my starting weight this time (October 12') will be a little higher than last (March 11'). I will be working hard to keep my weight down and hope for not too much water retention.



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