we are adopting!
When planning out my life as a young 20-year old, I never thought I’d have broken off an engagement, married the hottest guy ever, moved to a different state, and gone through 8 years of infertility – only ever knowing loss after loss after loss. Even still, I have been able to get back up,…
Redemption is Coming
Embryo adoption through our clinic is different than most. These adoptions are closed but it was quite important to us to have some sort of relationship or communication with the donor family. We asked our clinic if they would be open in sharing first names and email addresses and they agreed to share. I wrote…
it’s all happening
it’s a weird feeling having to let go having biological children but, ultimately, who cares! We want to be parents. Biological or not, we will love these babies with all we have in us! We signed up with a wonderful embryo adoption agency while also working with our clinic. We were given 2-3 profiles every…
our next book title is…..
We have several books on our “fertility journey bookshelf” and have officially closed another one. We had nine perfect, genetically normal embryos and not one of those embryos resulted in a live birth. based on this and after lots of thinking/praying, we have decided not to do another egg retrieval. Egg retrievals are VERY hard…
staying hopeful in the not yet
There’s not really a certain period of time that should go by before you decide you are ready to move forward again. Is it a month? 6 months? A year? There’s not a right answer because everyone is so different. For me, I go by how I feel. Am I ready to get back on…
down but not out
in the six months since I’ve written, a lot has happened. recapping from the last post, our 6th transfer failed (the first with our surrogate) possibly due to an embryo problem and possibly due to a subchorionic hematoma. august 28, 2024 – we transferred the most perfect embryo. we kept saying this was the “little…
no after no
the update that I just knew would look differently than any other update i’ve given! transfer #6 failed. everything went absolutely perfect for our carrier. She tolerated the medicine so well (aside from the bruising and sore tush from the shots), her lining was 10+ and trilaminar, her progesterone levels were perfect. so what went…
same book, new chapter
Let’s talk more about our surrogacy journey to get where we are today! As you all know, we have a surrogate! A sweet, selfless soul (we call her Samantha here on the blog until we are ready to publicly announce) who has been absolutely amazing through this very long process. We “matched” with S in…
jokes that become reality
Nothing like announcing you’re moving forward with surrogacy and then leave folks hanging for six months…but taking an opportunity while we wait (and wait and wait) to tell the story of how we found our gestational carrier (GC). For now, her identity will be kept secret and all names in our blogs will not be…
As Staind sang, it’s been a while…
Long time, no writing. It’s been a whirlwind the past few months. Since my last update, we’ve been through two more transfers and another miscarriage. I keep saying this but I never EVER thought I’d have to go through this physical and mental heartbreak. We are exhausted. I AM EXHAUSTED. My body has been through…
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