{I learned today that the blog will be featured on the main Typepad site for the next week, so if you're a first-time reader, Welcome! This blog been a labor of love, and almost a psychological necessity, as we've proceeded through the surrogacy process. Until this point, our dear readers have been mostly friends and family, plus a few random travelers that have stumbled upon the site. I hope you'll enjoy it! And a note, the whole thing is chronological, in backwards order from how it appears. There's a definite narrative, so I imagine it might be odd to read in the order that it appears, and not a little confusing. I encourage you to visit the first post to get a sense for what's going on, and click forward from there as you wish! Glad to have you. Thanks, Marc}
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
It's a beautiful evening in Montauk, where I work for most of the month of August. With summer winding down, Lin and I are looking forward to some time away in the form of a trip to San Francisco and LA in about a week. Summer means a lot of time spent away from each other, and with Lin working nights, what time we do have together when I'm back in Brooklyn consists of the tail ends of mornings into afternoons usually, with an occasional Sunday dinner thrown in. We manage though. And better than we managed a few years ago, that's for sure.
As for the Junior Project, we're creeping slowly out of our holding pattern, with Jeanne having recently had her first natural menstrual cycle since the pregnancy, a pre-condition to proceeding with the next IVF cycle. This time it will be a "frozen" cycle, implanting two of the embryos that were frozen on the fifth day after fertilization -- technically called blastocysts -- which we are told look pretty great. I've shaken off the surprise and sadness of the last cycle's failure; this is how things go in this business. What's important is that Lin and I have redoubled our intention to do this, and we're in it for the long haul; in it to win it; eyes on the prize...all that jazz.
In fact, just today we had a talk with our new IVF doctor at the clinic; we switched as a courtesy to our surrogate, who had a few "issues" with the last doc. This new one was calm and reassuring and instilled in us a confidence and sense of direction that we've been low on since the miscarriage. With luck, we'll begin the new cycle within about a month, and aim for an embryo transfer by the end of October.
Onward and upward. AGAIN.
You are the second couple in my life who is transferring in/around late October! Exciting and feels fortuitous, there's no doubt about it. Good autumnal energy abounds.
Posted by: Emily | 28 August 2012 at 07:14 PM