Lets Catch up!

Hello,

So this is my first blog ever but I felt the need to share our story as it is unfolding (and for some support along the way!)....

Here is a little about us!

My husband and I (married for 5 years) have a beautiful 2 year old son whom we adore more than the world. We live in NJ. My pregnancy with Liam was very very very difficult.  I had severe Hyperemesis Gravidarum (Throwing up about a million times a day, low weight, pure misery!!) and then I got Gastroparesis of pregnancy (My stomach was literally paralyzed and couldn't process anything!!!!).  I was 75 lbs at 3 months pregnant!!! I had blot clots, blood transfusions, had 5 surgeries to implant feeding tubes in my nose down my throat, IT was 8 MONTHS of Pure misery (photos will be uploaded soon!)----I was told NEVER to get pregnant again...they did a c-section to take the baby out at 34 weeks because I was way too sick to continue. I basically lived in the hospital and when I was discharged to go home I had nurses, machines, everything.  It was basically hell on earth....Luckily our little miracle was born at 4.5 lbs but healthy as a horse...he came home with me two days later....We are sooo thankful for him...and at that moment in time we were happy with just one child.  WELLLLLL that changed about 6 months after having him! We wanted to give him a sibling...so badly!!!


So January of 2014 we decided to embark on the wonderful, scary journey of GESTATIONAL SURROGACY...

I started frantically calling clinics in India and had some very not so comforting conversations. Finally, I found the perfect clinic in New Dehli!!

They explained that I would have to do a round of IVF to collect eggs and make embryos with my husband's sperm...They also explained the whole process would be 3-4 weeks just for the egg retreival! How would I leave my son for 4 weeks and go to india!! I started researching companies that ship embryos overseas!! (thinking this is the most sci-fi crazy thing!!!) Who ships their little precious babies in a container? ME!!! I decided to go for it! I would do the IVF here and have it shipped to my clinic...praying that customs wont interject or something crazy may stop them from getting there!! I prayed a lot during all of this!

Thankfully my cycle went well and we ended up with 9 day 6 blastocysts. I am fairly new to IVF and all of this but from what I heard from friends and doctors..we were very lucky to get that many.  We were advised to send only 6 just incase something went wrong.

Last week my 6 emby babies made it to my clinic.  Financially we aren't super wealthy so we held our breath each step of the way hoping it wasn't a complete waste of money....We sent the big payment last week to prep our surrogate and plan implantation sometime at the end of this month!!!! Soo here we are waiting!!!!!

I hope my first blog wasn't all over the place!!
Would Love to hear about others and their journey...