OMGosh!!!

Tomorrow the coordinator will be back in the office and I should be hearing about getting my ness and hopefully what my cycle schedule will be!!!!

This has all happened so quickly. Just last Christmas I had no clue where we would adopt from and no here we are!!!!

We haven't told many people about what we are doing. I can't wait to finally share with everyone!!!! Especially with our son. :)

Talked to the coordinator!

The coordinator emailed me back (even though she's on vacation) and told me to please not have a period. So I was right to keep taking the next months birth control until she gets back in the office on Monday.

Just a few more days and we'll be starting my cycle!!!!!

Another person on vacation...ACK!!!

Well I waited for a day and a half before finally emailing the coordinator at the clinic to see when we could schedule my FET. I didn't hear back from her all afternoon yesterday, but wasn't sure why.

I've been talking to another lady using the same clinic and in our conversation she mentions that the coordinator is out of the office all week on vacation. ACK!!!!

I understand everyone needs a vacation, but do they all need it during MY process??? My goodness!!!

Then to add to it, the way a cycle of FET works is that you are taking birth control until it's time to start the cycle. Then you go off the birth control, have a period, and then your start the whole bloodwork and ultrasound bit until your lining is thick enough to support the embryos. Just my luck, I'm at the end of my month of birth control and it's time for a period. If I have a period now, it'll be weeks (maybe even another month) before I'll be ready to have another one which means my cycle won't be started for another several weeks or a month.

So I had decided yesterday that I'd go ahead and start my next month of birth control and keep myself from having a period until the coordinator is back on Monday. Well Greg went yesterday to pick up my prescription for more birth control and find out insurance won't cover it because it's too soon. UGH!!! I ended up getting it, but it was a long hassle.

The good news is I have the birth control and so I'll just take some from the new pack for a few days until the coordinator is back in the office on Monday and can tell me if I'll be able to schedule my FET soon.

Now I'm just hoping and praying that the DOCTOR doesn't go on vacation next!!!

Legal Consent complete!!!

I got an email today from our attorney saying she faxed our legal consent to the clinic this morning!!!

I called my OB's office and they faxed my bloodwork results to the clinic as well. So now the clinic has everything we need to start the meds!!! (also known as cycling)

So while I am super excited that we are in the home stretch of this adoption, I am scared out of my mind too. I'm realizing this is all becoming real and that scares me.

I'm really worried about the shots. I have to do 2 injections a day for about 12 weeks. That scares me the most.

Anyway I need to focus on the happy part and that is that I will be meeting our babies in just a few weeks. :)

Next step is a travel date!!!

The costs

I was going through our expenses so far and so I thought I'd list them here to help me remember them as well as to help others when I share this blog with the world some day.

So far we have paid:

$300 - to sign with an agency we ended up not using
$150 - to sign with Miracles Waiting which we also didn't use
$260 - for orientation with Dr. Kumar (our clinic)
$750 - to our attorney to write our contract
$350 - to the donor parent's attorney to review the contract with them

Total: $1810


The things we have yet to pay: (some are my estimates)

$2575 - FET fees (includes donor bloodwork, assisted hatching, and the FET)
$600 - storage fee for any extra embryos we have left (good for 1 year)
$1500 - airfare & hotel for 2
$300 - food for 2

Total: $4975

So still alot yet to pay, but we already have the money for all of that. We have cash for the food, airfare, hotel, and storage fees. The FET fees will be put on my parent's credit card until we pay it off. Praise God for my parents. They have been SO kind in offering that card to us.

So total I'm expecting to have spent about $6900. We could have skipped the agency and MW fees if we'd known about the clinic, but Hey! It's all a process. :)

Oh really??? You have to be on vacation????

I was so expecting to have our contract from the attorney notarized, signed, and in hand sometime next week. We have waited all week thinking the donor parents were getting that done. Well yesterday I get an email that no only has the contract not been sent to them yet (we did our part on Monday), but their attorney is on VACATION!!! ACK!!!

Oh well, nothing we can do but wait for the attorney to get back and for her to complete her part by sending the contract to the donor parents. *sigh*

At least we have a nice long weekend to enjoy with family. :~)

Happy 4th of July!

get bloodwork done.....CHECK

Today I went and had my blood drawn and a culture done so they can prove I don't have any STDs. No doubt this will all come back negative so I'm not even worried about it. It's just one of those procedures that has to be done. Dr. Carney (my OB whom I love by the way) said the results would be back Monday, but since they are closed, I'll get them on Tuesday. Her nurse will then fax them to my CA clinic on Tuesday. YEAH!!!

One more step down and just a couple more to go. Now we just wait for the the blood results and wait for the donor parents to sign and notarize the contract. Then it's hello baby glue (i.e. shots). LOL