The puzzle pieces are coming together...

Putting this piece of the puzzle in place was a challenge, but we are very excited to announce that we confirmed our egg donor on Wednesday, December 15th.  She is Greek, French, Russian and German.  This egg donor was a breath of fresh air compared to the run around we got from our previous chosen egg donor.  I think we got a little helping hand from above with my mother looking over us.  The donor is a 26 well-educated young lady.  She is single and dedicated mother of a four year old daughter, who is adorable!  We love her pictures.  Donor seems to be a fun, energetic, and caring individual.  She loves the outdoors and cares about animals. She likes to make people smile and is a great listener to her friends.  Donor is very determined and as a single mother at a young age managed to get through college with two majors and earned a scholarship with a beautifully written essay.  When looking for a donor these were a majority of the characteristics we were looking for in a person.  She has all of the same characteristics that I have with the exception of two majors and a scholarship that is. :)  


Our surrogate has been medically screened and waiting on final results.  FCI said everything looked good.   Our surrogate "J" is a 32 year old mother of three beautiful children and wife to a caring and devoted husband "M".  J seems to be very caring and responsible young lady with a great personality.  She loves to spend time with her family and caring for others.  Since we spoke of J and M in a previous blog, we won't repeat ourselves other than to say we are so thankful and blessed that J and M have come into our lives and look forward to our journey with them and a long and ever lasting friendship.

Starting to get frustrated...

Looking for an egg donor is stressful especially when you aren't part of the puzzle.  Well, not biologically anyway.   We have had some set backs since our last post. In a prior post in October, we thought we had matched with an egg donor, but she has shown to be not a good match.  We have been going back and forth with this egg donor (I will refer to as "L").    We thought everything was great and we would be on our way with our journey.   There were some issues of waiting until she had her IUD removed and weaning off a medication or switching to a different medication that was acceptable by the fertility clinic.  After numerous e-mails with the agency acting as the go between, we were receiving conflicting statements from "L" with regards to weaning off the medication.  One minute she didn't like how she felt going off the medicine and then the next time she went off cold turkey.  When asked for a statement from her doctor stating it was okay to go off cold turkey she stated she had been weaning off for over a month with her doctor's knowledge, but has shown no evidence from her doctor showing clearance.  It makes you wonder if she would be responsible in following the direction of the fertility clinic in taking the injections and medication needed to proceed to retrieval.

So in search again…  We have a few profiles in mind, but have to wait for a telephone conference appointment with one agency, which is on December 8th.  Wish us luck...