We did not end up pregnant from the transfer and my IP's are looking into other options. My husband has decided that he does not want to look for another couple so we are out of the surrogacy game... I have been concentrating alot on my family lately....between being a stay at home wife/mom, team mom for the soccer team, dance for Rissa and school for both kids I have been pretty busy. I miss surrogacy sometimes and other times I am kinda glad not to have the stress of it all. I love all of the people that I met while trying to become a surrogate and everyone of you have touched my life is a very blessed way! This may be my last entry....Goodbye!

Well Toto it looks like we are home from Kansas!! We had our transfer on Saturday and everything went great. We had a little bit of a let down that there were not any embies left to freeze after the transfer, but we got 3 to transfer so I think we are good to go! I had the best time while we were there! We went shopping and boating and had family dinners and softball games and volleyball games!! Randy took the kids swimming at the pool and they had a blast, I got to meet all of there family and some of their friends! It was incredible! They are as wonderful as I had orginally thought and their family is so close...it's really quite heart warming! I LOVE them!!!! Teri gave me the most beautiful necklace while I was there (it's an angel wing) it's absolutely stunning!! Anyway about the transfer, like I said we transfered 3, 1-B and 2-C's (although one of the C's they said looked good but was only 4 celled and if it divided in the next 1-2 hours it would be upgraded to a B). We had a hard time deciding if we should put back a 3rd on or not, but the doc recommended it and if we didn't that little one would have been lost because he wouldn't have made it to day 5 (to freeze). I am going to start testing on Friday and I expect to see a positive by Monday at the latest. I have been having some cramping today and everything I have read says that cramping is good and can be a sign of implantation. So here's hopeing that all is right in the world and I am pregnant!! It's our time!! I will update after I test. Love Suz

Ok, I have not been updating at all like I should. Here we go....Teri triggered yesterday so her egg retrieval is going to be on Wed morning. It looks like we are going to get some where between 7-9 eggies!!! We are very, very excited! We are leaving tomorrow to fly up there and will transfer either Sat or Mon depending on if it is a 3 or 5 day transfer. I start my prometrium on Wed morning and continue through 9 - 12 weeks of pregnancy. We have a good time planned for while we are in Kansas. We are going to Sidney's softball game on Thursday evening and meeting some of Paul's relatives that same day. We are going to try and go boating on Friday, Saturday we could be transfering if not I am sure we will find lots of talking to entertain ourselves (not mention their neighbor has a pool. Anyway, we are going to have a great trip up there and I am going to come back PREGNANT!!! WHOOOHOOOOO!!! I am soooooooooo freakin pumped for this cycle!! Anyway thats my little update and I will write more after the transfer....maybe after the retrieval. Love Suzanne

Ok, so our cycle was cancelled. Teri went in on day 3 of her stims and they did an u/s and checked her estrogen levels and they said she only had 3 follicles on one and none on the other and her E2 levels were like 182...I think. So they were not happy with that and said that she was responding as well as they would like her to to the stims. She had to go back in 2 days later and they did another u/s and estrogen levels check and this time they said her body had taken the meds and ran because she had like 6 to 8 follicles, but they had gotten to big to fast so they decided to scrap the whole cycle. We will start cycling again in May (we are very excited) and planning a transfer in June. They have tweaked Teri's protocol so that hopefully it will work better for us. They have also suggested that Teri do some acupuncture, she started 2 weeks ago and she says it's AWESOME!! I want to go and get some done just for the heck of it now lol! Anywho, we are in very high spirits even with the set back, because we think that at least they got some knowledge from this cycle and can get it right next time. So I am on BCP's and we will start to get synced up next month. In the meantime, my birthday is on the 24th of this month and Zachary is turning 5 on May 1st so we will be plenty busy. Not to mention Zach is graduateing from Pre-K in May as well (so cute)! Love to all!! Suz

Ok, so today I went in and had some blood work done and an u/s. Everything looked great so I start taking my estrogen pills tomorrow!! Teri will be starting her stims on Saturday so needless to say we are on our way and VERY excited about it. I am a little nervous and really praying that IVF is going to be good to me this time....I think we have all of the right cards and that this is going to happen for us. I am definitly more excited than I am nervous, but I just want this to work so,so, so very badly. The doc at Shawnee Mission said that he thinks that with IVF it's like a gamble and even in the most perfect conditions sometimes it doesn't work, so I am hopeing we are in the top half of the gamble this time!! We are leaving on the 29th and heading up to Kansas and will be back on the 3rd...we are hopeing for either a 26th or 27th retrieval and then the transfer will either be on the 31st or 1st!! Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know that we are still on track! Love to all! Suz