Well I think in some ways it’s still sinking in, but we had our 12 week scan yesterday with our surrogate and finally it feels real. I actually did relax a bit in the run up to the scan and started to believe. We were extremely lucky to both be allowed into the scan room.
After all those rounds with my own eggs, so many early natural pregnancy losses, a really gutting recent ectopic, donor egg round with two transfers, and then even our first surrogate transfer fail with different donor eggs... I still believed that keeping up the fight was worth it and was amazed to see an actual clear baby shaped scan yesterday. I hope by sharing what we have gone through helps people believe and stay strong and hopeful as they carry on in their journeys as it can SO HARD at times. ❤️
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Wonderful news after a very difficult journey. You are very strong and I admire you for carrying in with your dream. Wishing you health and happiness with your baby x
Congratulations lovely, that’s such fantastic news. So pleased for you. It is such a rotten journey but you show that perseverance is they key. Looking forward to more updates xxx
Thank you everyone. I’ll quieten off as after this point there is little to say, as long as all goes well, although we are finding our the gender (hopefully!) on 27th January! Just got the letter for the 20 week scan on 7th March. But always floating in and out of this page to see if I can ever offer advice or support xx
I remember when u said your surrogate got the positive test! Such a great milestone. This is lovely news. Especially on a bleak, lockdown January day 😂....hope like this keeps us all going! Yeh, am ok hun....just waiting to hear back from my clinic on start date...hopefully end of march, beg of April. But haven't heard back yet of what programme access will let me on....hopefully I'll hear soon so I can just crack on. Wishing you and your surrogate a smooth and uneventful pregnancy. Xxxx
Awh it's a wonderful feeling. Like a dream! I remember those first scan pics of my lb and I could just not stop staring at them in disbelief. So excited for u.
I decided on Shropshire in the end..mainly cos it's what I know....and I know most of the staff pretty well now..lol..but after a chat with the consultant were looking at doing a couple of things differently as my lb was a bit of a fluke round where he was the only one that fertilised out of 16eggs ....which is a little worrying for future rounds.
We had a consultation in lpool and the consultant seemed really nice but Im not entirely sure what we were gaining if we were to go with them and I felt a little worried as it feels not quite as covid safe as you have to walk round a hospital to get to the clinic and a lot of people did not keep their distance. I asked about mild IVF and looked at the clinic u mentioned but I was advised against it due to poor fertilisation on my previous rounds which apparently is likely to be poor sperm quality....so I could do with a good few eggs to increase our odds.
Who knows 🤷🏼♀️ it's all just a gamble and I hope I'm making the right decision sticking with the same clinic. So hard to know what to do. Xxx
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12 th week scan, pic attached
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