Baby Journey

It has taken me awhile to figure out how/when to post this information. Our carrier and her husband made the trip to New York for a scheduled embryo transfer on 7/7/2021. She had been taken multiple medications a day, making sure the timing of them were perfect to ensure that her body was physiologically ready. The ultrasound imaging the week prior showed an ideal uterine lining, meaning that it was thick enough that an embryo would find this hospitable and implant.  The day before the transfer, our carrier and her husband spent a long day flying out to NY with a flight delay on the way for a 'light or something else' which was quite ominous. The following morning they presented to the clinic where it sounds as though the bedside manner was not the best. However, her and her husband were actively engaged in the process. Her husband was able to take a few pictures of the ultrasound screen and our carrier during this process and they sent us a photo of the embryo!  This is the c...

 It has been a while since I felt there was enough cumulative information that warranted a blog post. The next week will be full of excitement and hopefully good news. A little over two weeks ago, our gestational carrier had an initial ultrasound and labs to evaluate her baseline exam. Following this, she started taking a mixture of medications that included Estradiol, Azithromycin, Prednisone, Naltrexone, and Tacrolimus, and likely others that I can't recall right now. Some of the medications functions are literally to lower the immune response/inflammatory process within the body to help prevent it from attacking the future embryo. The rest of the medications are meant to help thicken the lining the uterus. For a successful transfer, the uterine lining needs to be thick, this allows the embryo a place to implant and start to grow.  A week after starting the medications, a repeat ultrasound was performed which showed a satisfactory uterine lining. This allowed for the transfe...