Appointment results, so sorry so late!

I am so sorry for the late update - computer problems have been the name of the game at our house this past week. Our laptop that was broken and then fixed by my husband is now again on the fritz. So it's taken a few days for the update - I'm so sorry. Monday came and went and we had our appointment with our RE. I dropped off Brynn at my mom's in the afternoon and met my husband at the office. Basically it was an informational meeting but it was so nice again to see the wonderful staff how helped us achieve our dream of becoming parents to our little girl Brynn. We brought pictures and the staff was so happy to see some updated versions of the little one that they had known as a three celled "aggressive embryo" as they had called her. She had been the slowest growing and at the end grew the fastest which is why we transfered her versus the other embryos. Funny how things work out. We discussed our wishes with my favorite RE and he completely supports us in our choice to use a gestational carrier. He had already talked with my OB and peri and they are on the same page. Basically we have an appointment the first week of August with my friend M and possibly her husband along with the RE to discuss the process. At that time we might do some mandatory blood work screening, or if not we'll do it sometime around that date. They basically treat the transfer of embryos like the transfer of any other foreign tissue so all four of us have to do the screening for HIV, STD's etc that my husband and I had to do for our IVF cycle with Brynn. After that it would basically take 2 months to do the transfer. After coordinating with M's cycle, she would start on a downregulation phase of Lupron shots for a few days and then medication to thicken her lining. At the time of the transfer all three of embryos would be thawed.

Of the three embryos thawed each stand around a 50% chance of surviving thaw. Depending on how many survive and how many we transfer each based on our history have about a 50% chance of implanting post transfer. M would take progesterone - probably Endome.trin like I have used with our cycle with Brynn as supplemental support post transfer. So where do we go from here? Well....we have an appointment for August 6th in the afternoon with at least M and myself and the RE. To say I'm excited would be the understatment of the century. We went shopping today and had a great time and firmed up some dates for appointments. Did I forget to mention I bought a cute pair of shoes also? Yup I do, LOL!

This all seems so surreal. I just can't believe that in a few short months we might be in the middle of a frozen embryo transfer. We have been blessed beyond our wildest dreams to have this opprotunity at our fingertips, and it is not one I will ever take for granted.