IVF Land on Surrogacy World

I am bored with this part of the pregnancy - since it has been our first worry free week - there is little for me to obsese about. So today we will share a story about the wolf. We have shared a story about the Mexican wolf and the Italian wolf. Now it's time for a Cherokee Indian story. One evening an old Cherokee Indian told his grandson about a battle that was going on inside himself. He said, "My boy, the fight is between two wolves." That certainly got the boy's attention. "One is evil," the old man continued. "Anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego." "What of the other, grandfather?" the boy asked. "The other is good," he said. "Joy, Peace, Love, Hope, Serenity, Humility, Kindness, Benevolence, Empathy, Generosity, Truth, Compassion and Faith." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked h...

I am really slow on this update, but here are the pictures that matter: The is a zoomed in picture of Paco's heart beating. The red parts are his heart. The baby has a current beta name of Paco. This is mainly a creation of our surrogate, which shows that we don't need to see eye to eye on everything and can still get along. The heartbeat at the week 8 ultrasound is 167. This is very strong and means that Paco passed the heartbeat challenge with flying colors. On week 8 we measured 7 weeks 6 days and we are told that with an IVF pregnancy anywhere plus or minus 3 days is normal. Now we should have around 4 weeks of clear stress free sailing. The next main event for Paco is the Nuchal. He will win this by having a skinny neck. No fat neck babies for us. This week we killed the wolf.

Short answer for now. I didn't want to keep everyone in suspense. Baby doing very well passed the challenge with flying colors. We will add more details late tonight.

Tomorrow morning is the Heart Beat Challenge for our baby. I believe in competition, challenges, and having goals. And this is one of the first early tests that we need to win. Sometimes in life, you don't "want to win." You "have to win." And this is one of those moments. Besides you can't start winning to early in life. I believe that "success breeds success!" And that "one win leads to another." So it's time for our baby to start "being a winner." (Ya, I know, sports metaphors everywhere.) Now before you start thinking that I am one of "those Dad's". Trying to re-live my glory days through my child. Remember, that I was born in the stone age before 8 week ultrasounds and Heart Beat monitoring. So our baby will be praised or cursed on his own accomplishments. Not compared to mine. ("Cursed" is clearly not the correct word to use, but I will have to start writing for Women's Home Journal if I st...

Yes. We were first. The first USA couple to our knowledge that went to Mexico for Surrogacy with a USA surrogate to get pregnant. The have been a few other cases of surrogacy in Mexico. One couple from third country has a USA surrogate and did the transfer in Mexico City. But, that we know of where all 3 of us are from the USA. The first where none of us speak Spanish. And it was De Nada!!! And the first to share our story on the internet. So naturally, people question our choices. They attack our opinions. Question our values. At least in Mexico where Surrogacy is not common. They have agreed that it's legal and most people think that it's great, but a few question if it's moral. Mexico is a Catholic country. And the church doesn't approve. In the US, they want to know if it's safe, do they speak English, are they professional, is it legal? And were we comfortable in our choice of a clinic? Events in IVF land move fast. The people that don't live as infertile h...

The investigation continues......... Here are the very important results of my internal investigation about the state of our pregnancy. We have not seen a Dr. in the last 72 hours so this is not based on any new information from a licensed and trained medical expert. MY FINDINGS ARE BASED ON: Our reported numbers, the percentages, the heart beat, the bleed, the through the roof extremely High Beta numbers, Dr. Google, the fact that I have never carried a baby, and my complete lack of any medical training. With that being said - we have the all important discovery, findings, and my current made up beliefs. Due to the high beta number we started out as twins. Morning Sickness which didn't happen in the past with singleton's was in full strength due to the twins. The bleed was one guy moving out, not a tear in the lining. The Heart Beat numbers are within range and will be fine. With one baby the morning sickness will go away. I can be a nice guy again. No more "Bad Man...

Actually, we are now two days older since the start of the bleed. It appears through my 2nd hand report that we do not have any new blood - so we are out of the red - so to speak. At least for the moment. The way that the information flows around here is that Christy gets a text message in the morning with an update. This information is then relayed to me via Christy. Through this monitoring system we have the daily panty report. Now mind you - This is not the daily Panty check system that I ever envisioned that I would be part of. However, the focus of the situation is that we are back to No Bleed, is a Good Bleed. We have determined that for the 8 week ultrasound next week that the min. heart beat should be 149. At an increase of 3.3 beats per day we should be at 150. Borderline at best. When we had the last Ultrasound our heartbeat was at 124 at 6 w6d. At 124 we have a 70-90% chance of success. If we had a heartbeat under 120 at that time our success rate would have been 62%. We wil...