Homestudy Approved!

Yay!

We hope that it will be on its way to NEDC next week, well in time for them to review it prior to our June 3 appointment.

Next steps are we are continuing to satisfy the 10-hour training requirement. When my next cycle starts in a couple weeks, I will then start on some hormones that will get me ready for the June 3 visit. After the June 3 visit, I have an ultrasound at our local facility to time it just right with where I'm at in my cycle.

Then, hoping all goes well, once I start my June menstrual cycle, I can start on the hormones needed to prep me for the actual transfer. That would only happen if we were successfully matched with a genetic family prior to July.

I must say the timing of all this seems so fast that I'm a little skeptical about whether we'll actually be able to have the transfer in July, so it may be September.

I can't believe we formally started down this road in January, here it is May, and we may be PUPO (pregnant until proven otherwise) by July or September!

Also, Tygh and I have decided (pending doctor approval and logistics) that we'd probably transfer 3 embryos -- if 3 were available to transfer. We did 2 with our IVF and it didn't work, so 3 does not seem like an unreasonable number. Of course you pray and want each of them to make it and have a chance at life, but the thought of triplets (gulp) scares me. But truth be told, I'm WAY more scared of it not working at all.

Mentally, though, I'm in a good place. The sun is out and God is smiling. We feel confident we are resting squarely within His will. We're just on this journey He has set forth with us. The plan and all the details are already worked out. As our pastor says, "We're just going fishing with Dad."