Well, I had my second lining check today and things are looking great. Lining is measuring about 8 or 9 and we have the coveted triple-stripe. To be honest, I've forgotten what all of that means other than I know it's nice and fluffy in there and that's what you want when you're trying to convince an embryo to snuggle in!
My estrogen shots are going well. I'm on 20 mg/ml of Estradiol Valerate every three days and last night, I was upped to 40 mg/ml every three days. We should start Progesterone in about 8 days or so. I have lozenges and vaginal suppositories to take for that so luckily, not more shots. My husband gave me my first two but the poor thing has torn a tendon in his foot and has been hobbling about so I sent him to bed and he passed out pretty quickly. I stood there for about 10 minutes before I got up the nerve to inject myself. True, I did this over a 100 times the last pregnancy, but those first few pokes make me a little nervous. As I hesitated a little, it hurt a little more, but not much. It's like my IM said. Do it like you'd pull off a bandaid; quickly! :)
In other news, we finally get to meet J, D and their son N!! :D They're driving as I type and will be hanging out in Houston for the weekend. Tonight we're going to dinner and bowling and we'll have two of our three with us. Our youngest is just a few days over 3 and if you thought the saying "terrible twos" was accurate, you've not experience "traumatic threes!" :) She's my sweet little princess but man, she's a handful!! Plus, I think it's a bit much to ask a 3 year old to sit still for dinner and then behave during bowling for more than 15 mins. and it'll be past her bedtime, so I figure it's just best for her to hang out and get some quality time with Grandma and Grandpa. She'll enjoy all of the special attention. J&D will have to experience that fun another time! :) One where my husband can be tagged in and partake in the running around.
I hope to post a picture or two from our meeting! We'll see if J&D are camera shy. :) They might just want to stay anonymous for funsies!
TWO WEEKS from today!!!!!! :D I cannot wait!! The nice part about getting contracts and legal, psych, med. done is that you can sit back and enjoy the anticipation. It's really humbling to be working with such wonderful people and I can't wait to give J a big hug!
Tomorrow, we're having an informal get together of surrogates and former/future/current IMs at my friend, H's house. She has the MOST gorgeous house!! (It's true! She won garden of the month once!) So, tomorrow morning, I'll pick up J (D&N are going to hang out with family while in town) and she, my two oldest and I will hang out around town having lunch, shopping and just getting to know each other even more. We'll be having dinner with our surrogacy buddies and then I'll drop her off so she can recooperate at her hotel.
What a fun weekend!!
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