It’s been a while since I have updated this area of the blog and that is because I had been holding out sharing more until we finally had some good news. Thankfully—it was months and not years!
Transferring is as Easy as 3-21
With a new surrogate (SB) ready to go on this journey with us, we were ready to have a baby. We had a plan, an embryo, and a womb ready to grow our little monster. The transfer date was scheduled for 3-21-23. Grant and I are big into numbers and loved the idea of a date with consecutive numbers (3, 21), while concurrently reading 1, 23 after that. Writing it down seems a bit strange, but it sounds good in our heads.
New Surrogate Has Arrived
Do we have a new surrogate? Where is the surrogate? Can we schedule a meeting to figure out what we can do to get a surrogate? Hey…how’s that surrogate hunting going? Pss….you got any surrogates…we can keep it on the down-low? And the responses we got were always — NO. We are working on it. When we have something we will give it to you.
Stopped Before Getting Started
This is not a positive update so I am just going to speed through it as it’s not great. After Zila’s 3rd unsuccessful attempt, we were unsure of what to do. So we spoke to Dr. Kumar who recommended continuing with Zila for a 4th attempt. Having done a bit of research, this was a little unusual as most surrogates have three attempts before it is viewed as being incompatible. To hedge our bet, the doctor agreed to fertilize additional eggs and be on the lookout for a new surrogate if anything happened.