Time for an update and a change of name

It's time for an update. I've changed the name of the blog to reflect our new plan. Call us crazy but we are moving ahead with another IVF. This is it. I've said many times before this is our last attempt, but this time, it is (really and truthfully!)

It takes three.

Three woman that is. One to donate the eggs, one to grow and nurture the baby and one to be a parent.

Yes, we have chosen to use both an egg donor and a gestational surrogate (GS). Could it get much more complicated?!?

We are very lucky that our GS Jenn wants to enter this journey with us again. After our last failure it would be understandable if she needed to step away and take some time out, but she is all ready to go again and we are so grateful for that. Without her this journey would not be possible.

This is our last shot, so we are taking all the advice we can get. Our best chance of a successful cycle is with a young donor who has donated before and those cycles have resulted in pregnancy. Our donor guide, D, has matched us with a 21 year old donor who has donated twice before, both times resulting in a singleton pregnancy. She lives local to our clinic and meets our requirements perfectly.

We are in the early stages, Jenn is currently in the middle of a "mock cycle" which tests the level of medication she requires amongst other things, and we are waiting for our donor to meet with our clinic nurse to complete her testing. We are hoping for a transfer sometime before Christmas, but time will tell, I learned long ago you cannot predict the timing of IVF cycles!

This might work, it might not, but whatever happens we will have done everything we could to try and we will be at peace with the outcome.

We are excited to start this new journey!