One big hurdle down..

I know.. I know.. I have been  slacking.  I suck.  Life has been busy and my internet has been on the fritz.. 

So let's spend a few posts getting caught up!

When we last left off,  I had just completed medical screening and passed but was waiting for the vampires to analyze my 7 vials of blood and make sure I didn't have some weird unknown disease that would prevent me from being pregnant.

Naturally a few days later, we were informed that I was in fact healthy!  Yay!  Not that I was really surprised!  ha!  I would have been majorly shocked had something come back negative on the bloodwork.

And so with the all clear- my IPs and I set about getting the contract done and in place.  We needed the contract done prior to starting meds.  Since Patricia and I had already went over an old contract to make sure we both knew what we each felt was acceptable, we were sure this part would fly right by.

It might have flown by if it were not for the fact that lawyers are notoriously s.l.o.w !  And then they all decided that it would be a great idea to fly to another state for some infertility conference.  Geeesh, people!!   Patricia and I were panicking just a little bit when I called her attorney's office on Tuesday and was told that the atty was gone until Thursday.  Contracts needed to be signed by the following Monday and we didn't even have a first draft!  ARGH!

Luckily we finally got that first draft on Thursday..  and then began the back and forth, back and forth.  Me to my attorney, my attorney to the IPs attorney. IPs attorney to them...   Let me tell you, contracts = stress! 

Thankfully we were able to slide in by the skin of our teeth and get contracts signed on Monday (11/18) just in time to start meds!!

With my internet playing hokey, you totally missed the excitement of my big ole box of meds arriving !

Looks pretty innocent, doesn't it?

 

This.   This looks just a little bit scarier.  Do you SEE all those needles? 

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before but me and needles don't exactly get along.  I'm a big WIMP when it comes to needles coming near my skin.  Yet I just signed up to get myself months of shots.  Yeah, I never said I was a genius.. lol. 

 

When a name isn't really a name.

Well there's just not a lot going on here right now .. I am on week 2 of my birth control pills and so far no major headaches !  Woot!  In the past (many many years in the past, when I actually used these silly things), I had a very hard time finding a bcp that didn't give me horrible headaches.  One relief at least!

We are still at a standstill - waiting on my Nov. 1st appointment to finally get here.  Patience is not my strong suit.. LoL!

The only progress that I can report at this time is that Patricia* and I have been hashing out the details of the contracts.  Normally, we wouldn't start contracts until after medical screening - to save $$ just in case something came back disqualifying me from being a surrogate .. However, we have little patience and have to do something !  We figured we can go thru an old contract and see what we agree and disagree with ourselves - so when the time comes we just hand it to the attorney and tell her to write it up!    We do only have a window of roughly 15days to get the contract done and signed (between my medical screening & when we would start meds if we want to make a transfer yet this year), so any little bit helps.

For now- things are very boring here!   Don't worry, soon enough I will have lots of fun updates and pictures to share.. We all know I babble endlessly so I'm trying my best not to just babble meaningless stuff over here! :)  That's best saved for the regular blog.. HA!



*A side note -- Surrogacy is illegal in many European countries.  Due to this, many international Intended Parents come to the United States to find a surrogate.  My IPs are from Spain- where surrogacy is illegal, and due to this there will be no identifying pictures of them & their loved ones.  Also - I'm just going to say it here : the names used are not their real names.  IM picked out cute fake names for me to use so I wasn't constantly calling them IM/IF ect!   I am thankful to her for that and hey she's better at renaming people than I am because if I had to do it who knows what she might have gotten.

And so I introduce you to my IM -  Patricia  , my IF - Jaime  and Patricia's sister in law (who is also reading along and will be visiting during the pregnancy) Leny !  

Woohoo!

Hi LENY !!


Until next time,