What a week this has been.

Can I start by saying that I am tired? I am tired.

That sounds super whiny to me, and that is definitely not how I want to be. Lets be honest though, that is par for the course when you are making babies.

On August 13th the doctor transferred two embryos into my uterus. I then got to spend two days laying in bed and hoping that they would "stick". Eight days later on the 21st of August, I had my first blood draw to test my HCG count. They told me before they did the embryo transfer that the number that they would be looking for from the blood test was 30+. When they did my blood test, my count was 116!!! Yay! They said that in order to make sure that I would have a blood test on August 24th, and then again on August 26th, and that my HCG count should double each time that they do the test. On the 24th, my number was up over 300, and on the 26th that number was 1,432! Really good numbers, and enough for them to comfortably say that I AM PREGNANT!!!!

I have an appointment scheduled for the 9th of September to do my first ultrasound and check for heartbeats!!! Hopefully there will be two.

Now that they have confirmed that I am pregnant, I have had such an outpouring of support from all the people around me that I am feeling completely overwhelmed with emotion. Lets be honest, that could be the hormone injections. Ha ha.

It's amazing the way that people start to treat you when they find out that you are pregnant. People have started offering to carry things for me, and help me with just about anything. Can I also be totally honest and say knock it off. That sounds really harsh, but its actually really good for women to keep doing things that they have been doing regularly while pregnant. It is a fact, that if you remain active during your pregnancy, your labor will be easier. Please let me stay active. I promise I know what my body can handle, and I will not push myself beyond that limit.

Now that I have finished ranting, lets talk about some super awesome things that have happened!

I got to spend some time talking with my intended family, and sharing the awesome news with them. They shared that the day of the transfer was incredibly emotional for them. They have been going through this process for 2 years, and to have this finally coming to fruition is a huge deal. They are going to have a baby, hopefully babies, in 9 months!!!! I can't imagine what they are feeling right now. I know the excitement I felt when thinking about my own kids while I was pregnant with them, and I can only hope that they are having those same emotions! Happiness, fear, excitement, nervousness... all of the emotions that anyone can have in their body at any given time.

I am so happy to be able to share this experience with them. I don't think that there are enough words in the world to describe how I feel about this experience. I am feeling totally overwhelmed. If I really stop to think about what is happening, I am overcome by tears. That said, I keep myself really busy so that I don't walk around like some weeping woman all the time.

Something else that has happened that hasn't been great is that I have gotten REALLY over these hormone injections. Obviously I will keep doing them, but I am really tired of getting stuck in the bum every day. There have been a couple of times that it stung a little bit, and ever since then I have felt a little nervous when Collin goes to give them to me. No fault of his obviously. We are working on finding just the right spot each time, and the last few haven't hurt at all.

I don't really know what else to share at this point, but I know that people have a lot of questions about this whole process. If you want to ask any, I am an open book. I will answer just about any question, with certain limitations. I won't discuss exact payment for this process, I do get paid, and I don't really care to share beyond that. Anything about the process of becoming a surrogate, or anything else though, I am all ears.

Thank you again for reading!! The last post had almost 400 people read it, and that really moved me.

Love, Heather