Two Proud Daddies

Wow, have I been slacking with these blog posts. Since starting the progesterone on Tuesday, I have been way lazier and I can't freaking poop either! I can't stay up past like 8pm. I tried in vain last night to watch Swamp People with the hubby but I think I may have fallen asleep on him because I woke up alone, in the dark, on the couch. Eh, atleast there was no morning breath to contend with in the AM.

So Stitch had her retrieval on Wednesday! We were SHOCKED to learn that the doc was able to retrieve 12 good healthy eggs! Holy cow was that a surprise because IF you remember, we were told maybe 9 follicles but most likely only 7 mature eggs. Needless to say the next step was FERTILIZATION. Frank and Adam were about to become petri dish daddies. This morning we got the call that 5 out of 6 eggs fertilized for Frank and 3 out of 6 eggs fertilized for Adam. Team FRADAM now has 8 beautiful embabies! I am beyond thrilled for them. And I can't even begin to thank Stitch enough for her selfless act of being an egg donor. Two amazing men who have so much to offer a child(ren) will now have the chance to become parents. How awesome is that?

Anyhow, we are now waiting to find out how they FRADAM embabies are growing. That will determine if we have a 3 day transfer (3dt) on Saturday or a 5 day transfer (5dt) on Monday. The guys fly into Philly on Friday night and if it's a Monday transfer, they will stay up here in the Wilkes-Barre area. If we transfer on Saturday than we'll all hole up in a hotel down by the clinic in Abington. Either way they're stuck here til' Monday and get to spend tons of time with my family! I made Frank promise to take my kids swimming at the hotel. I also tried to make him promise to wear green however he insisted it wasn't a good color on him. We agreed for him to wear green somewhere secret.. or was it turquoise? LMAO

I also came home to three packages from the UPS man (and he wasn't even cute). My fellow surrogate friend Bethany Jones had sent me out a few packages. I was quick to assume that one of them was the lucky socks she wore at her last transfer that left her knocked up with twins! And guess what.. I was RIGHT! It meant so much to me that she bought the very same pair she wore, just for me. I am also sporting a neat bracelet. They are Lucky Karma Beads and the one she purchased for me is called Unexpected Miracles. The tag reads "Wear these beads always and you can overflow with unexpected miracles and everythign you desire can come your way". Well shoot, these aren't coming OFF until I deliver a baby or two into Adam and Frank's arms!

Yeah, that's right, I said baby or TWO. The plan is to transfer an embryo from each daddy. It could become complicated if we only get pregnant with one or if we get pregnant with idential twins. We won't know who the baby daddy is until afterwards (unless we need to do testing during the pregnancy). I would love to have a healthy pregnancy no matter how many babies we conceive, but goodness knows one is easier than two!

So depending on what "day" we transfer on, we start counting days post transfer (dpt). So if we transfer on Saturday, on Sunday we will be 1dp3dt. Got it? And to complicate matters even more we can add those numbers together and that will be equivalent to days post ovulation (dpo). We count dpo to determine when a good time to test is as well as for due date purposes. As of now, if we conceive, our due date will officially be October 31, 2012. Which just so happens to be my 6th wedding anniversary and three days after their father's wedding anniversary! How perfect is that?

Now my good friend Bethany Jones has been through plenty of transfers with me. She's always supportive and absolute understands my need to pee. She gets it soo much that she sent me 23 pee sticks today too! Of course, I know how bad my addiction is and so I had already purchased 25 (for $1.49 how can you go wrong?). I think the day after transfer would be a super unrealistic day to start. I think that I might just see how long until I get the urge and then start peeing like 10 times a day. Valentine's day will be a MUST no matter when we transfer. It would be a small miracle if I got a positive on that day. And to be honest, if I did, I would probably be carrying way more than twins! With my first surrogacy I got the fainted big fat positive (BFP) 3.5dp5dt and it was twins. So that's equivalent to 8.5dpo. SUPER EARLY. I have no expectations for that kind of craziness but I'll take a surprise.

So that's the gist of it all. I will keep you updated as to what tomorrow brings. Stay tuned!