Happy New Years.......

Happy New Years to all that have supported me with my decision to be a surrogate. I am so thankful for all of you that I have in my life. Being a surrogate we be a great joy, but without all of you, I am not sure if it would be the same. Heres to a great upcoming year. CHEERS!!!

My couple met all my kids today....

Today we video chatted with our couple for the 2nd time, they got to meet all the kids today.  My kids enjoyed chatting with them. My older son and our couple  have been exchanging emails for the last few weeks. He loves to get there emails. I feel so good knowing that they want to get to know him. We got to talk about what's next. I feel so great after getting to see them again. I can't wait to hug them soon. Hopeful we will get a chance to Skype again soon, planning on the 2nd week of Jan. I got to tell them about belly buds, they looked so happy that I am thing of them already.  I just don't ever want them to feel out of the loop. I have so many plans to keep them involved during the pregnancy. I can't wait to see there faces every time they get to hear the baby's heart beat. I am still so excited that I get be apart something so great!!! 

My first appointment with the IVF Doctor

Yesterday was a great day, I met the IVF Doc, he was very nice and I really liked him. We talked about the next steps and than he did a mock transfer( like a practice run) Everything looked great!! I start Birth control today, so they can take charge of my cycle. It looks like the real transfer will be in February. I will meet my couple in person a week before and than get to spend some time getting to know them during the week of the transfer. I hope everything works out the first time!!!!

Our first meeting

Last week we started changing email with our couple, it was so nice to start to get to know them. On Wednesday we planed to skype for the first time. It was a wonderful experiences, I felt a connections with them right away. We were able to chat for an hour, me being me got a little emotional but it helped them to see how passionate I was to meeting them. My husband sat with me the whole time and was able to talk when I was crying and could get the words out. He is a great support. They are a beautiful couple, they are warm and so sweet. I am so happy to be apart of there lives and be able to give them such a gift. We talked about so many things but yet there are still so much still learn about each other. This journey we are about to embrace together will be such a joy and hopeful full of happiness. I go to meet the IVF Doc at the end of this month to find out when we will start treatment. I am very proud and excited to be moving forward and getting this chance to be apart of something so extraordinary.  

Moving forward

I got some information today, that I could be meeting the IVF Doctor by the end of this month or by the middle of next month. WOW, its moving so fast but I can't wait for everything. I am also waiting for an email from my couple, I am so excited to get to know them and can't wait to see them. It does feel a little weird knowing that I will be pregnant again soon, but it will be so great to do this wonderful thing and help to create a great family. 

The meeting

This time when everyone went around the room and shared their stories about their journey's and where they  at so far. I  got to say that I have been MATCHED. It felt great to say it out loud, and it made me feel like one of them. We did hear about a birth story that didn't turn out so great, but that surro-mom is doing better. We also got to hear about some other birth stories that turned out great. I am going to try and not think about what could go wrong but about what could go right. I enjoy going to these meeting because of the support and the understanding I get from the other surrogate mothers. I do have a great support system but the understanding of the whys are sometime hard to explain and to get others to understand why being a surrogate is so important to me. I do want to say thank you to everyone that supports me and thinks this is a great thing for me to do. The next meeting I go to, I get to be there for my friend while she shares her birth story.

I also talked to my coordinator about what is next for me, and now I am waiting to hear from the IVF Dr. and my couple. I am looking forward to meeting them and going though everything with them. 

Being matched

Last night I got the email saying that I have been matched. Now my journey begins. I am so happy for what I get to do for this amazing, and deserving couple . I have great hopes that everything works out the first time, so they don't have to wait much longer for their child. Now I get to learn about all the ends and outs of being a surrogate, and making the connection with my couple.  

The start of my journey

In July of 2011, I was on the phone with a dear friend of mine. She was telling me about her application to become a surrogate mother. I got so excited for what she was doing, and had told her how excited I was for her and  how I have always wanted to be a surrogate myself. To think that I could help someone add to their family or help start a family. So I went online and filled out my application. I was contacted a few days later through email to let me know that they wanted me to fill out the 2nd part of the application. So I did it took a little while to get all the information they needed. Now I needed to wait after about 6 months of not hearing back I thought that maybe I wasn't someone they needed at the time. When January of 2012 came around thing where falling apart in my life. So the thought of being a surrogate had left my mind. At this time my friend had been matched and was waiting for her transfer date. At this point I was so excited for her, I got to learn first hand about everything to do with what was involved in being a surrogate mother. In August I felt like it was a great time to find out what had happen to me application. So I contacted the agency that I was going through. A day later I had received an email saying that I would be a great match, but at the end of the email it said since I lived out of state they couldn't help me. So I sat on that for a few days and thought about it. Then it came to me my friend live in the same state as I do, so I emailed the agency back. I explained that I wasn't understanding why I couldn't be a surrogate mother from Nevada. They told me that there would be a lot of traveling involved. My thought on that was it would be a small price to pay for what I would be doing for a family. I didn't feel like that was a good enough answer. I then told them I have friend that is a surrogate right now and she lives 30 min away from me. They said as long as I understand what would be involved they would love for me to move forward.  Then I had learned that on my application I had put the wrong phone number down(this is why I never heard anything back). In September my friend invited me to a support group meeting for surrogate mothers. I was so excited to go and learn more about what was going to be happening in my life. When we got there I was greeted by one of the coordinators, she ask me if I could stay after the meeting and fill out the evaluation. I had learn so much more about being a surrogate from all the other surrogate mother that shared there stories. I wanted to be a surrogate even more now, I had stayed after the meeting to fill out the evaluation. That was fun. It was just the start of all the information they were going to need from me. In the next month I got together everything I needed to send to them, I had made a doctor's app with my OB. To make sure I was healthy enough to be a surrogate, when I ask him if he would be my doctor during the pregnancy he was so excited  and said "YES".  On October 4th I had my phone interview, she told be she felt that I would be a great match for the agency and would be a great surrogate and that I would here about from her soon. Oct 26th I received a phone call telling me that a have been matched with a couple. I was really excited and could wait for the next steps. My husband and I had to go get our lab work done. Everything came back great, now I am waiting to find out if the couple feels I will be a right match for them. In a few days I get to go to another group meeting and this time I get to say that I am in the process of being matched.

This is the start of a great thing, I am so happy to share my story with you.