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My Surrogate Baby is One Today!

May 10, 2011 By 5 Comments

I know this week on my blog is full of birthdays and parties and well, that’s just the way I roll!  Yesterday was MY babies birthday and today it is Shannon’s baby’s birthday.  How awesome is that?

One year ago I delivered Baby J.  It just so happens that his family is in San Diego this week so I get to take a short drive down and spend his first birthday with his beautiful family.  I am so very excited about this!

Today is a little bittersweet for me.  I spent the previous 8 years or so (before this past year) either trying to get pregnant, being pregnant, or recovering from being pregnant (I made SEVEN babies in SIX years!).  This past year has been blissfully non-pregnant.  But now, after a year of not really thinking about it…I wonder.  Should I do another surrogacy?  It is such a wonderful thing and I miss it!  I can now understand how women do surrogacies many many times and I recognize the “surrogacy addiction” in me.

I’m sure Bob will just DIE when he reads this.

I can assure everyone, that while I miss being an active surrogate, I won’t be doing it again.  Instead, I will live vicariously through my friend Kathleen who is just beginning her first surrogacy journey.  I can’t wait to see what smiles she brings to her lovely intended family.  I can’t wait to see how much her life will change.

Happy Birthday Baby J!  I hope you bring many more beautiful smiles to your deserving family.

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Feeling Pregnant

October 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Lilypie Pregnancy tickers

We are 9 weeks pregnant today.

I can’t believe how fast it’s going.  Today is the last day I have to give myself a hormone injection in the ass with a giant needle.  That’s a celebration all in itself.

But today, I am finally feeling pregnant.

I slept last night for 10 hours!  I passed out on the couch around 8pm and didn’t wake up until 6am.  You would think I would be feeling pretty good, huh?  Nope.  I am still SO tired and have been very “barfy” all day.  I have never had traditional “morning sickness.”  Instead, I just get waves of nausea that comes and goes, usually in the afternoons (go figure).  But I woke up this morning and have been sick all day.  It sucks!  I just want to curl up and go back to bed with my pitcher of peppermint tea.

We had our last appointment on Wednesday where little baby Burnsie was measuring 2 days ahead (8 weeks and 8 days) with a heart rate of 171.  He was beautiful!  You’ll have to pardon me for calling it a “he” but we ended up giving it the nickname “baby Burnsie” and well…it sounds a little masculine doesn’t it?  My IP’s have a girl already, so maybe it’s a sign of boys to come.  hehe.

So now I’ll be under the care of my OB/Gyn.  It’s bittersweet because I just love Dr. Acacio and the staff at the fertility clinic, but it’s good to be moving along.

I guess that’s about it on the surrogacy front.  So far so good!

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Positively Pregnant!

September 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I told you all about the positive pregnancy tests I was getting last week.  Well it’s been confirmed and we ARE pregnant!  Woot!

I got my beta blood test on 9/8 and I got a number of 143.  Then on 9/10 it was 356.  So it’s doubling nicely and my doctor confirmed that we are definitely pregnant.

I certainly feel pregnant. *blah*

I’m so tired and feeling a little barfy.  I’ve never actually been sick (throwing up) during pregnancy, so I hope it doesn’t start, but I do get queasy.  I’ve had really good luck with peppermint tea and so I am stocked up!

Shannon and Mike are very excited!  That is really an understatement.  But they have gotten a positive beta test before only to have their hopes dashed when an ultrasound showed the embryo had stopped living.  While they are very hopeful and excited, I can tell that their feelings are a bit guarded until they know that the little beans are thriving.

We will find that out on September 22nd when we have our first ultrasound.

Sometimes people like to guess how many babies are in there based on the beta numbers.  Generally speaking, the higher the number, the more hormone is being produced, the more babies you’ve got.  I had very low beta numbers with my triplet pregnancy.  We never dreamed that I had 3 babies in there based on my numbers.  This time, my numbers are right in line for a beautiful, solid, singleton pregnancy.  So I am sure there are likely TWO!

Well know on the 22nd, and I’ll be sure to update.

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Pretty Sure We’re Pregnant!

September 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

This morning me and my IP’s are 9.5dp3dt.  In English, this means that we are 9 and a half days past our 3 day embryo transfer.  Most people don’t really count half and three quarter days, but in surrogacy you do!  Oh, and if you wonder, a 3 day embryo transfer just means we put the embryos inside of my uterus 3 days after they were fertilized.

Yesterday afternoon I finally saw two pink lines on my pregnancy test!  I swear, all this waiting in surrogacy is torture!  But the lines were very very faint.  So faint that I thought maybe I was just wishing them to be there when they really weren’t.  But because I can’t keep anything to myself, I immediately called Shannon and told her the wonderful news!

I even told my momdot and facebook friends.

Yeah, I suck at secrets.  LOL

As happy as I was, I could not get the BFP to show up in a picture.  I decided to wait until this morning to hopefully get a darker positive.

I tested this morning on two different tests.

There were still lines, but they are still very faint.

*UGH*

Why aren’t they darker already??!!

I tried to take a video of them to see if they would show up.  You should have heard me and Shannon on the phone while I downloaded the video.  Pretty funny.  We were both so excited but I was frustrated because I can’t really share it with her.  They aren’t showing up on film!  Stupid camera.  I went to find my other camera.  A higher resolution one.  Maybe that will work.

Guess what?

It did!

Here is my proof that I am not seeing pink elephants…I mean lines!

Do you see it, too?

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Vicious Cycle

July 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment

This week I started taking Lupron injections for the surrogacy.  Lupron basically shuts down my own hormone production so that I don’t ovulate and then the fertility doctors can regulate when/where/how much the hormones come back.  In a sense, Lupron puts you into menopause.

With the artificial shutting down of my hormone productions…I am STRESSED.  I have a headache.  I feel on edge.  I am HOT.  Or rather, I am having “power surges.”  Yeah, that makes it better.

Not.

Then, I am a stress eater.  Big time.  When the kids are freaking me out or I am sad or angry, I eat.

So guess what I am doing right now?

Stressing and eating.  Stressing and eating.

Oh, and I am overweight and can not afford to gain anything.

That stresses me out, too.

See where I am going with this?

I’m sitting outside while the kids are swimming.  I am sweating like a whore in church and all I want is for the kids to sit down and be quiet.  I have a headache.  Don’t they understand this?  Why don’t they understand?  Oh, wait, they are children.  And I’m doing this to create more children.  See the irony?  lol!

Really, I am making fun of myself.  It will be okay.  Only about 10 more months of crazy hormones, right?  I can do this.  As long as I don’t end up a 500 pound heifer when I’m done.

Oh, and who’s freaking idea was it to make the charms in my Lucky Charms so tiny?  I feel ripped off.

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