Well it has been awhile since I have posted anything here. Not much going on. Brooke had a great first birthday. She learned to walk on her own a few weeks before that. She is learning so much! She follows a lot of commands, but still doesn't have any words. She has her own version of the word "that" and everything is "that" and she barks at the dogs, or with the dogs! :) Zoe is back in gymnastics which makes her very happy. We had a great parent teacher conference with positive feedback from her teachers. Her chores have become a little slack, but hopefully she will get back on the right track there too.
As far as surrogacy goes, we are officially matched with the guys from NYC. The local couple would have been great, but it was so hard to communicate with them, and they were a little vague about their reasons for turning to surrogacy. A lot of her statements had me feeling like there was something else going on, which is not ideal. So R and J are amazing. I feel really good about them and this journey. Josh and I met with a psychologist for our psych eval today, I emailed R&J the results from my blood work last September, R got my background check run and J is having his MD appointment this week for his blood work. R said he wanted to get the ball rolling on the contract this week too. It's all so exciting. We have agreed on lifelong contact of any kind, honesty with the child when the time is right, and an open, trusting, honest relationship. J is going to be the bio father. We hope to insem at the soonest possible ovulation. We don't expect to get everything done in time to catch the egg on 3/30 but it would be awesome if we could. Just keeping everything open.
I think I am most worried about timing. Before Brooke was born ovulation was day 32-34. Since she has been born, I've had day 27 and 31, with the rest of my cycles being on bcp or IVF meds. I'm wondering if I should exclude my pre Brooke cycles from my FF stats... I am still on the Chinese herbs from my acupuncturist, and they seem to do really good things for my cycle, stabilize my temps and bring ovulation earlier. At least last cycle. I am trying to re create exactly what I did last cycle to see if I get the same results this cycle. If I can't predict O into a smaller window timing could be off. I do however have a serious addiction to poas. OPK, HPT it doesn't even matter. I'm only on cd9 and I've already used 3 opk. FF says I should start using opk on cd24.
Oh I also got a raise at work, which I am very excited about. It's giving me a lot more wiggle room in my spending, which is bad, I should save all of it. But I'm not too off track yet. I have 99% decided to save for my boob job :) Which I am also really excited about. That obviously needs to wait until after the TS baby.
Well I have to do my MMPI at home tonight and drop if back off to the psych in the morning. We had some trouble meeting with her, due to her own scheduling issues, so she cut me a break and let me take it this way. I just really can not wait to be pregnant. I'm really really really excited.
**Edited to add** Since I got my records from the GS cycles with A&R I found out that at my first monitoring appt in January my lining was a 6!! That is really awesome, too bad the extra weeks of meds made it degrade, which is still weird to me. However, I feel good getting that measurement!
