Second Trimester Here we come!

We made it to the second trimester! Tomorrow is our first trimester screening ultrasound! Miguel and I are headed out to Connecticut to see the babies! I cannot wait to see those baby boys swimming around in there! Jen has been an absolute trooper in these early months of pregnancy. She has endured morning sickness, Fatigue, and all the other first trimester symptoms I wont mention! I can’t imagine how she has managed while taking care of her little ones at home and working and going to school! I am hoping that as we approach our 13^th week she will begin to get her energy back and the food aversions will turn into the heightened taste buds that will allow her to taste foods and enjoy them so much more than the non pregnant.

I am so grateful to be in this situation! I am scared to death at the same time…but grateful beyond words. I have been doing my research on baby gear for twins…and figuring out our sleeping arrangements for the first 6 months. I have been reading up on feeding schedules for twins and sleep training…We all know that none of this information will really prepare us for what is really coming! Sleepless nights and major paranoia! But with that comes long loving gazes at our two newest additions to the family, and a heavenly place on earth, which will become our house when the babies get to come home.

Well tomorrow I will go to my appointment with Jen, equipped to the hilt with recording devises…I hope to have video and still photographs to post soon.

One other milestone we have achieved this week is the public announcement of my pregnancy, that was made to the 50 plus colleagues by my high school principal. This was kind of anti climatic and funny…because my principal said…and I quote…” and we have another baby on the way(gesturing to me in the second row of the stadium seating lecture hall) Mrs. Miranda is expecting….(awkward pause)…SURROGATLY (if that’s a word) Major pause….(while the faculty was trying to figure out what that meant….then someone in the faculty audience yells out) “twins” then there was a light applause and the spotlight went to other news….(While the faculty was still trying to figure out what had just happened….) I am just happy that everyone knows…But I still have not told my students, grade 9-12….I might just spring it on them spontaneously any day now, that is if it doesn’t leak!

Can you believe we’re here? Starting our second trimester?!?!?!?! Reality is finally sinking in! Oh yeah! We are looking at minivans! But I think we like the Chevy Traverse…which is considered a crossover….In my definition, a crossover is a masculine minivan!

A year and a half ago I met Jen. Jen is a gestational carrier aka surrogate mother. We met on a website specifically for social networking between surrogates and Intended parents. Miguel and I are intended parents.

Now a year and a half later, through countless emails, texts, message board entries, phone calls and social meetings we are here……After psychological evaluations, physical exams, infectious disease screening, home studies and criminal background checks ….here we are! Through IVF cycling, genetic testing and embryo transfers…Here we are!

We are finally pregnant! Jen is Pregnant! We are having a baby!

No Wait! This gets better……

We are not just having one baby!

WE ARE HAVING TWO BABIES!

IT’S TWINS!

WE COULDN'T BE HAPPIER! WE COULDN’T BE MORE TERRIFIED!

BUT MOST OF ALL… WE THANK GOD FOR GETTING US HERE!

Last Friday We got to see two heartbeats and two babies….. We are speechless!

We can’t thank Jen enough for this unbelievable selfless act.

Did I mention they are both Boys! We are having twin boys!

Our Faint Positive

Here is Jenns test from this morning, 6 days past the embryo transfer!
I know it's faint but it's there! Here's to darker tests in the coming days...

Could it really Be?

I should really wait before putting this out there! I know most people wait till they are "in the clear"....at like three or four months... but Jenn and I had our frozen embryo transfer on Friday September 10th at 2:15 in the afternoon. Jenn got two "day 6 hatching blastocycsts" put in the uterus and now 5 days later we have a positive pregnancy test! It's faint, but it's positive! Now we wait to see what the blood test says on the 20th! I am just praying for one little healthy bean! If there are two, I'll be even more happy! Keep us in your prayers! We want this in the worst way and it's soooooo early!
Miguel and I are over the moon with joy!
Keep this to yourself! It's so early, I just wanted to share with you guys following my blog!
Check back for an update, Beta test is on Monday the 20th..

Today I am married 7 years. Today is August first 2010. I can honestly say that I am still happily married. But my thoughts are diverted once again to the idea of making babies…and as I am now 40 years and 3 months old it is more urgent than in the past. But I have found some peace in knowing that as the clock ticks we will reach an end of the road….as we all know this road has been way too long and has spanned my entire marriage. My husband and I were married 7 years ago and although we wanted to have a baby right away, we waited a year to go by before trying to conceive….But even though we waited…our minds were still on the idea of baby. We were waiting for my TENURE at the new high school I had recently switched to. Well…you know the rest…or at least you could look it up in this blog…lol

We are ready to do another transfer! And I know I have not been a good blogger….because when things are not going my way or when new exciting stuff is not on the horizon, let’s just say I am a little less than motivated to write about it.

So back to my latest news…..

Jennifer, the amazing women who will hopefully become pregnant with our baby/babies is gearing up for a new transfer. As many of you remember the transfer of two embryos in January did not work and she did not become pregnant.

Well since then I went through what is called an IVF cycle to make more embryos….and We also went through a process to check 24 chromosomes on each embryo due to my radiation history etc… and we have three frozen healthy totcicles ready for transfer.

We are looking at the last week of August for Jenn to have two of the embryos put back in her uterus.

What makes this even more excited is the fact that we know the sex of all three embryos…and they are all the same sex!

But I am not ready to share that information yet.

Please pray for us and wish us luck….it’s almost the end of the road for this chapter.

Love Jess

xoxo