Something Chocolate Can't Fix: It's OUR time!

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

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It’s been a while since I updated, so it’s long over-due.

We have big news!

We are starting this baby making’ process…like THIS WEEKEND!

This journey has been a crazy one, BUT nothing could prepare us for our plan of care meeting.

Several times during our appointment Ambree, Lucas and I turned pale white when we heard what we were all about to go through.

I honestly can’t explain my emotions over the last 24 hours, since our appointment, I’ve cried more than I have through the entire process.

REALITY became REAL!

So to try to explain to you what’s about to happen would take a few hours (that’s how long it took us anyway) so let me tell you, these March and February calendars (one for Ambree, one for me) are going to dictate our lives…

Let me explain it to you:

Ambree takes a bunch of drugs.

I take a bunch of drugs.

Blood work.

More blood work.

Even more blood work.

More drugs for Ambree.

Ultrasounds GALORE

More drugs for me.

More drugs for Ambree.

Egg extraction for me (surgical procedure)

Lucas does his thing.

Scientists make little embryos.

We store them in a freezer.

They pick “the one”

Ambree takes a BUNCH more drugs.

We implant the embryo.

Ambree is pregnant (we hope).

Did you get that? Just remember loads of drugs+sperm+eggs+science=baby!

So all of this takes just 6 weeks. By April, we could be pregnant!

Are you freaking out? Cause we are!

Between Ambree and me, we have to be at the doctors nearly every day (including weekends), and will be injecting ourselves with a variety of drugs, nearly daily of these 6 weeks.

It’s going to be quite the journey, but holy moly,

STUFF IS HAPPENING!

There’s the details for you all.

We will need lots of prayer and good vibes sent our way these next two month.

Pray, send good vibes, think of us…whatever it is, we need it!

We could never have gotten here without your love and support!

So here we go!

(More on my thoughts to come soon. Stay tuned, we will update you at least weekly…you’re with us now on this ride…hang on!)

XOXO,
Deja

Well, Hello there!

My name is Deja, my {HOT} husband Lucas and I want to share our journey through infertility and surrogacy, the ups the downs, all of it, with you! We are on this crazy ride for a reason and we figured we might as well take you along too. We officially began our surrogacy journey in January of 2012, although I've been dealing with infertility for nearly 8 year now. We completed our first round of IVF, using a gestational carrier, my little sister Ambree, on April 1, 2015. Of the 14 embryo were created using my eggs, and Lucas' sperm, 12 died off before we could transfer them. We transferred two very weak, tired, falling-apart embryo in late March. Lucas and I great to love these two little survivors right away, however, they didn't make it and we lost them before our first BETA (pregnancy test). We also discovered, through this process, that my eggs are bad (most likely due to severe endometreosis). We aren't ready to give up on our dream yet, and are still planning the next steps of our journey. Through it all, we hope our story can bring light to the struggle that is infertility, and hope and faith to those who might need it.
XOXO,
Deja (Intended Parent)

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

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