Glass or Bottle???

I am seriously so darn excited that I cannot even be suspenseful and take you through the story before I tell you the BIG NEWS! We have finally made our journey official and have signed the contract! Yayyyy!!

As you know from our previous blogs we were running a little behind with the legal side of things. I was so happy when I finally heard from our lawyer on September 11th. This was the original day the contract was supposed to be completely done. Whoops! We were sent the draft contract via e-mail but I didn't receive it until I was already at work. Ugh! I was definitely eager to get out of work early so we could do our part and go over things as thorough and quickly as we could. It took us 2 hours to go over every detail but honestly everything was very straight forward. I was so surprised and grateful that everything written in the contract was in our best interest. Sometimes people disagree with a lot of things so it takes longer to get everyone to agree how things are written. Not in this case and it seems we have been pretty lucky with how things have turned out so far even with some of the small bumps.

We did have some difficulties understand a few things but it ended up not being anything we needed to change. We talked things over with our lawyer the next day and agreed that we were good to go on our end. By that time E and A had already went over the contract and also were ready to sign. I feel like we spent most of the time waiting to hear from our lawyer even while we were going through all the legal. Yesterday I waited all morning for him to call me so I could give him the fax number to send me the signature pages. He called around noon and said he would get the pages to me. 5 o'clock came around and still no word so I ended up getting the pages myself and faxed them to both lawyers offices. It was very annoying for all of us to wait on this lawyer to get his stuff together.

It is beyond crazy to see how far we have already come being signed with the perfect couple and it is a relief more than anything to have the legal part out of the way. I will be starting injections sometime within the next couple days and this will be my last time to have a celebration toast as E said to me, "We all need a glass of wine. Maybe a bottle!" This is where I end with whether tonight the celebration shall include a glass of wine or a bottle. :) I feel that E and A both should be here toasting to the great news but I am sure they are incredibly excited and thankful legal is over as well.

Today around noon E sent me a text saying our clinic received our contracts and that we were all set! We ended the conversation with a big fat "We Did It!" How Rewarding to share that same feeling with them! I received a call from the person who will be working with us through the transfer process & I am all set to start my medications. Tonight I start injections called Lupron.

Lupron: inhibits the brain from secreting hormones that control the menstrual cycle. The ovaries enter into a state of rest, and the patient's cycle can be completely controlled. This medication prevents premature ovulation and allow the patient's cycle to be coordinated as needed. (Pretty much they are taking the hormones out of my body to stop me from ovulating)

I will be on Lupron for about 3 1/2 weeks and it is a daily injection that I will take around 10pm. I have made my entire schedule to revolve all my meds being taken between 9-10pm so that I can make sure nothing is missed and I stay organized. I choose that time because Lupron has to be taken between 6-10pm and with my work schedule 10pm works better. I figure I would take all my meds at the same time so that there is no confusion and I began this process with taking my birth control and prenatals at that very time.
As of right now I will be taking prenatals, birth control, and Lupron daily until September 16th then I will stop taking birth control which is in 2 days! This is so crazy because I have been looking at my med calendar for over a month and it is finally come to the time I start it! Next thing you know it will be time to do the transfer and E and A will be there with us. They had a wedding to go to the weekend of the transfer and had to cancel because I'm sure there is no way they would miss seeing their embryos placed. Very exciting!

Our next appointment is on September 20th so we are looking forward to the upcoming 6 hour round trip. This appointment will be for blood work and ultrasound to check my levels and make sure the meds are doing what they are supposed to.

How are we feeling? I am feeling less stressed now that legal is done but slightly nervous for the injections. I guess we will see how it goes tonight and there will be a much needed blog posting for that alone. Ben is feeling under the weather but as for the surrogacy journey he is excited and nervous to see how everything pans out. He worries about how my body will take to the medications (I think that is more about how moody I may be considering some meds take hormones out of me and some put them in me so I have a feeling it will be a rude awakening on my system) For the most part there are mostly happy feelings for both of us. We don't usually look forward to the long drive but the day of the transfer I will be so amped up! Also I wanted to recap that our transfer date has still not changed and will be October 13th!

:)