Just Saved a Few Thousand Dollars!

God is so good to us! I have been talking with the nurse out in California in preparation for starting the mock cycle at the beginning of November. She gave me the protocol of medications, blood tests, US, procedures and it is quite involved. Once I got through that, if everything looked good, then we would repeat the same process all over again, but this time with the actual transfer. Well, I began wondering if it was really necessary to do a mock. Why couldn't we just do the transfer if everything looked good the first time? Then I started researching and found that not all doctors do a mock before the actual transfer. So I called a yesterday and asked if the doctor would be willing to do an actual transfer without doing a mock. When she got back to me, she said the doctor was okay with that as long as we were okay with it! I was so excited. That saves us at least $2000-$3000 in meds and tests AND I get to skip out on 6 weeks worth of extra shots! Okay, that is a lot of exclamation points in one paragraph, but I was so excited and God continues to orchestrate things in ways I couldn't even imagine.

So we are looking at starting the protocol either in December or January. We are leaving for Mexico on December 5, so it depends on how my body responds before then. That means we are looking at the actual transfer either early January or early February. We are only planning on doing one transfer, so that will be it. We will see what happens.

They are all ours!

The last bit of paperwork was signed and the four little snowflake babies are ours, storage fees and all! The anonymous donor sent a short email to Embryos Alive to forward on to us.

Hi Bonnie

We signed the releases yesterday so they are theirs. They can set up the transfer whenever they are ready. I guess they are traveling to LA to do it. :-) All future embryo storage bills effective with November billing will go to Ken/Becky.

Please keep us posted about the transfer and of course the results. Let them know we'll pray for them and hope all goes well with the transfer.

Thank you again for everything. We are so blessed!
R.

So...Now the next step is to schedule the mock transfer most likely in November or December which will be done locally. Then, God willing, we will be flying out to Los Angeles in January for the actual transfer.

Soli Deo Gloria!

It is official! We have adopted 4 embryos!

Hello again,

Time seems to run through my hands like water these days. Where does it go? As of September 23, on Hope's birthday actually, we did the final notarizing of papers and sent them back to the agency. We are the proud parents of 4 healthy bouncing baby....embryos!

They are ours, but there is actually one more step before we can begin the whole process of mock trial and transfer. We needed to pay for cryostorage of the embryos before the donor would release the clinic to transfer them to us. We have done that and now are just waiting for the donor to send that release to the clinic in California where the embryos are being stored. We are anticipating this will be completed by Friday (October 9). We are going to be doing the transfer there, so hopefully it will make the logistics and process much simpler. It will also be done by the same doctor that did the transfer for our donor which resulted in twins. I can't remember if I already said that.

Assuming there aren't any major glitches, we could possibly have the transfer done by the end of the year and celebrating in 2010 by watching my belly grow.

All for God's glory,

Becky