Our surrogate has been admitted to hospital

We received an email from the Doctors from SI on Saturday night.
Email stated that the amniotic flid is low and blood flow to the baby is restricted to due high pressure. They have now admitted our surrogate into hospital for close observation.

Our surrogate is now under the care of Dr Soni who is minitoring things very closely on a daily basis.

We have been sent into a flap with this news as you can imagine!!!

Doctors are hoping that baby will hang on until 36wks, but feel there is a high chance that the baby may need to be delivered sooner.

Planned C-section for around the 18th of October if all goes to well, but I have a strong sense that we will be meeting our little one sooner rather than later.

Time to get super organised and get the baby case packed!!

We had flights booked for November 6th, time to rearrange everything; good job we hadn't booked accomodation.

Amit is calling us tonight, our plan was to stay in apartment accomodation at the Marriot Lake Side. We will now just have to hold off on booking anything. Like Dr Yash said, if the baby comes sooner than 36weeks, it will stay in the hospital for some time, so staying in a hotel or at the hospital would be OK.....I think a hotel would be preferable from all accounts of the hospital accomodation. Hey But at the end of the day, just being there is what is important, not how fancy the accomodation is :)

I am remaining positive and calm. This situation is completely out of my control and I will just need to go with the flow and roll with the punches.

I will keep you all posted......sending positive vibes to our lovely surrogate. I will send her some flowers tomorrow, not much fun for her being cooped up in hospital.

It's been a while!

What can I say.....time is moving along VERY quickly now. Both Doug and I have been so busy with his business. Things are starting to settle a little now, BIG SIGH OF RELIEF I CAN TELL YOU.

I have now spoken to my lovely manager at the hospital regarding our up and coming birth, and she was VERY understanding. She has allowed me to drop my hours to help hubby with the business and I am now coping alot better.

We are now 28 weeks!!!! We had a small scare the other day with our surrogate being admitted to the SI clinic with low amtiotic fluid. The good doctors were onto it quick smart and they rehydrated her with extra IV fluids and......all is well.They did say it was nothing to worry about, but you just can't help but worry. I feel much better now to hear everything is back to normal.

We have now been offered a nice cot and change table from friends of friends that is in perfect nick. Need to go and pick it up this weekend if the weather stays nice enough to put it on the back of the ute. Need to start getting organised for the little ones arrival me thinks......IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have booked flights to India for Nov 6th, both my Mum and Dad are coming too, to help, and be a part of this very speacial time.

Here's hoping the next ten weeks or so are SMOOTH sailing.

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS Amani, Bob and Jo and Timmy - you have been my inspiration from the very start of this journey. I am just SOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy for you all.

19 Weeks......HALF WAY!!!!!

Well, we have finally made it to the half way mark.
Really couldn't help myself today and went out shopping and bought some baby stuff in the sales. Not alot, just a few little baby grows and things :)

I have only got two more weeks at work before a four week break, to help Hubby through "Silly Season". Tax season is about to hit hard, and he will need all the support he can get. We are both definitely psyching ourselves up for the onslaught......TAX, TAX and more TAX!!

Unfortunatley, we have both had a few very hard weeks, with some very sad events taking place in our close circle of friends. It has really hit us both hard, and we feel very gracious to have something to be looking forward to...our little baby. In some ways he/she has helped us through the last few weeks.

ON A BIG POSITIVE: We had excellent reports from SI last week.....all measurements of babs at correct lengths. All looking good :)

14 Weeks!!

We have now reached week forteen of our pregnancy with our SM.
This week we had a full range of scans sent to us of the baby. AMAZING :)

It feels so strange looking at these pictures.
Feeling so removed from the whole process, and so far away makes it feel unreal. Can these pictures really be of OUR baby!!!

Although we are still pregnant, I find it hard to allow myself to accept that we are.
We have both wanted this for so long....I don't think I will accept that this is real until the baby is in my arms....even then, it will feel like a dream.

I am really struggling with the idea of telling people about the pregnancy. When is the right time?? Women undergoing a normal pregnancy would have announced it by now...they would be showing a bump and would have to let people in on their excitement.

When is the right time to announce our pregnancy to our boss and announce it to work colleagues??

I feel like I am carrying the BIGGEST secret around. I actually feel that our pregnancy will become more real when everyone knows about it!!

I know I must be sounding like a complete basket case at the moment!! But really I am travelling along OK.

We are so very happy with how lucky we have been so far, we are feeling very blessed to have come this far. I have precious moments when I feel completely overwhelmed with joy at the prospect of becoming a MUM!!

We are still pregnant for now........

Our last report form the SI team shows that we are still pregnant.
We had good cardiac activity, and our "blob" was only 5.3mm, teeney weeney!
We wait in anticipation for our next update, which is an absolute killer...

I think our next update will be at around the 10wk mark, which really isn't far off, but, each week feels like an eternity at the moment.

If we hit the 12wk mark I will be able to relax a little.

I didn't realise how hard this was going to be.....even though things still appear to be positive.....I feel like I am on tender hooks. Think I need to destress a little. I have a certain level of tension in my life at the moment which I just can't explain. I am normally very calm and relaxed....
On the outside everyone thinks I am cool calm and collected....but on the inside I feel like I could just explode, why am i feeling like this? I think it may have to do with a lack of control, who knows?

I know I should be happy and over the moon, but just can't let myself at the moment. We all read that anything can happen at any time, and being so far away, just doesn't make it any easier. I am hoping things will get easier after the twelve week mark. If not I think I will go CRAZY!!!!!

Sorry for such a delay in posting this.....but our life has been a little upside down lately.

Will post our next update soon....

So Far So Good.....

Well, we spoke with the good Dr's .....and so far so good. We have a POSITIVE result!!!!!
Beta level of high 100's, 174 I think they said.
I still don't believe it......all feels very unreal.
They emailed us telling us congratulations, so I suppose at this stage we are pregnant......just really feels very strange.
We are both VERY happy, and really have no words to describe how we feel.
Just need to keep hanging on for more positive news....my mind is doing backflips!!!

My heart goes out to Mandy, my dear surro friend......it really doesn't feel nice posting our positive news, when you have just been kicked in the guts.....our love and thoughts go out to you hun, they really do.....it is so hard to stay positive, but hang on in there.

Back in OZ......2WW

Well...our time in Mumbai with the SI team was VERY positive.
We ended up retrieving 10 good eggs from our beautiful donor, nine of which fertilised.
4 Grade A's, 4 Grade B's and then a dodgy one.
So we now have x3 embies hanging on for dear life (I hope) in our lovely surrogate.

Our last week in India post transfer was VERY busy.
We took a trip up to North India to see theTaj Mahal, Jaipur, Delhi etc and had a fabulous time.
It was good to keep busy.
We had a driver for 7 days that was just brilliant, who went out of his way to make us comfortable.

We had a VERY bummpy landing on Monday coming back to Adelaide. I was terrified......we almost landed and then had to suddenly abort the landing due to strong winds. Second attempt worked a treat, but, was very scary. Wouldn't like to do that again.

We are now back in the land of OZ, and we're both glad to be home, even though our time in India was amazing.

This weekend we hope to be receiving a call from the SI team to let us know our results. We are both feeling VERY positive, good karma all around. But what will be will be, we can't do or change anything now, it is all in the laps of the gods.

We have got frozen embies, so we have a back up if necessary. And we have both said that we would not hesitate to do it all over again. We are in this for the long hall.

Hope to be posting positive news soon x

Had to post these pics. Our early morning visit to the Taj :)