Dr's appointment

I went to see Dr. A again today for another ultrasound to check if everything is still going smoothly. It was! Still had 3 little heartbeats and they are all so healthy. We are measuring 10 weeks and 5 days today.

Baby C was a wriggler! (Far left)

Dr A and I sat down in her office again to discuss the reduction. She explained the procedure very thoroughly and made me feel more at ease about it.
Up until now, I have still been taking all my meds: estrogen patches, estrogen injections, progesterone inserts, progesterone injections, and my pre-natals. She said I can stop patches and inserts YAY, but I must continue same dosage of injections until 1 week after the procedure.

I have also been extremely sick. Vomiting most mornings and nauseous most of the day. I have been prescribed zofran (anti-nausea medicine) but it only works some days. Guess I do have triple the hormones than my other pregnancies.

SCARED AND SHOCKED

Since the ultrasound, my feelings have been all over the place. I have been sad, scared, happy, hormonal, shocked, stressed, sick, and many more feelings.

I have had many different opinions from friends and family about the reduction. The negativity that comes from people is awful and I do not like having negativity placed upon me. I came into the surrogacy world to help a couple have a HEALTHY baby, and that is what I am going to do. Give Laura and David the gift of life.

I have been so emotional (thank you hormones) and I have had great support from my hubby, and some friends and family, but mainly Laura and David. They have been beyond supportive and they are always there to make me feel better through text or Skype. 

Today was support group day, and I couldn't be happier to see my fellow surrogates and hear their support too. From here on out, I will not accept any negativity. I am looking forward to the rest of my journey.

How many did you say??

Sorry I haven't posted for a while. I have been pre-occupied with school work and overloaded with morning sickness.
Anyway...June 9th. I had my first ultrasound appointment with Dr. A. To see how many embryos implanted.

That's right. TRIPLETS

Dr. A showed Laura, David (on skype) and I the screen, and we saw 3 little heart beats. 1 embryo had split (3% chance). So we have 2 identical's and a fraternal. I bet my face was a picture. Seeing Laura and Davids reaction was also the craziest thing I saw. They both had their hands on their cheeks and kept saying, "this is impossible".
I am still in shock to this moment, that I am as of now carrying triplets!! What an insane feeling.

After the ultrasound...
Dr. A and I sat in her office to discuss what was to happen next. She insisted that I get a reduction, because carrying 3 babies is extremely risky (especially identical twins). She referred me to a reduction specialist.

FYI: I know a lot of you may be confused about the entire reduction. This is a doctors order! Not only for my health, but so Laura and David can have at least 1 healthy baby. If I carry these babies as far as I can (typically 30 weeks). They are going to be extremely sick and in the nicu for a very long time. The couple have already been through having a baby at 25 weeks and they do not want to go through this again. So please only positive thoughts here. I am happy with whatever decision the doctors and parents choose.
This is the real surrogacy world. These things do happen (not occasionally), but they do happen. This blog is purely to inform people (and hopefully potential surrogates). It isn't to scare anyone away, but the things that we all must think about before going into the surrogacy world.

Another countdown.

I haven't written in a while, mainly because I have been busy with school work, and morning sickness (more like all day sickness) has arrived. So I apologize for that.
We are currently 7 weeks pregnant, and have yet to find out if there are 1 or 2 little peanuts in there, but, we do get to find out on Monday, YAY. We are all really excited to find out. I just Skyped with Laura and David and they were telling me how tired I looked (must be a good look on me). We talked about our love for Grey's Anatomy - the TV show. So glad we have that in common. I also found out that Laura has been having some sympathy symptoms, she has been eating lots of food and is very tired all the time. Hmm.... Sounds pretty familiar if you ask me. I too am ALWAYS hungry, I swear my belly grumbles right after I have eaten and every few hours after that.

This month we have had a surrogate support group (every month), its one of my favorite days. Each month is a different theme and this one was "Mother's day tea," it was a lot of fun. I love talking with the other surrogates and finding out about their journey and sharing Dr stories amongst all our pregnancy symptoms. Here are some pics of our meeting.

We all get name tags with where we are in our journey's

Kailey, myself and Tina drinking tea

Since then I have been having crazy cravings. One of them was especially weird Bananas and custard. The people that know me well, know that I CAN NOT stand bananas. It's a texture thing, and the smell of them. My son Kameron was eating one and I thought it smelt very refreshing and I had the sudden urge for bananas and custard and I LOVED it. 

My crazy craving

Here I am now 7 weeks preggo with Laura and Davids baby or babies. I am still taking daily injections of progesterone and estrogen injections twice a week. Estrogen patches and Progesterone inserts and baby aspirin and pre natal vitamins. Us surrogates have to remember so much and its very important for the health of the baby/ies.

Can't wait till Monday to find out if its 1 or 2. June 9th can't come fast enough, we are all very excited.