More embryos

I got a call from Carrie about Cooper Center today and we have now added 3 more embryos to our 4 for a total of 7 embryos! We were able to add batch 472 which is Italian/Polish/Slovak. These embryos are at a 5cell, 6cell and a 4 cell and none of these embryos are refrozen. Carrie is supposed to send another consent form for this batch which we'll have to have signed and notarized and mail back. Than we can move forward and start our testing!

Well, we got the forms all notarized and mailed out today! Woohoo! Very very exciting! Tomorrow is Adam's 13th birthday! His dad sent him a Nintendo DSi and a Ipod for his birthday. He is one very excited boy!

Today we received the consent forms for the embryo batches that need to be notarized and mailed back. The reservation fee for the embryos has been paid now also. Next step is to mail back the forms and contact the nurse coordinator to get the list of testing that Jon and I will need to have done.

Here's our list of baby names that we like so far:

Adalynn

Madelynn

Irelynn

Sydney

Caden

Jonah

Jailynn or Jaylin

Adeline

Ameleah

Abigale

Olevia Olivia

Nadia

Magdalyn

Aya

Maggie

Madalyn

Schuyler

Railyn (raylynn, raelynn)

Hayden

Chloe

Amaya

Onyah (Anya, Anja)

Keegan

Kennedy

Cassia

Nora

Ayana

Juliana

Braylin

Brannon

Lucas

Luke

Luca

Seth

Tyrus

Ackerly

Adannya

Hagan, Hagen

Sadie

Bryley,Briley

Cavan

Mckenna

Bryson

Cleo

Adera

Amaya or Amya

Lydia

Madalena

Rena or Renna

Brenna

I needed a picture of something "cool" to help cool me down. It's 101 degrees outside! ICE! I need ICE!

I received my new medela pump in style advanced today. Yeah!!! On a different note, Jon found out that his position has been "rifted". Luckily, he'll be able to go work at the base pharmacy. The position change won't take effect until the end of July. He'll still get his same pay for 2 yrs which is great. I on the other hand was able to extend my resignation notice by 2 weeks. ( i was offered a position before it was technically approved, and well, it didn't get approved). But, I have a back up plan and will do contract nursing after my two weeks is up. To top it all off, we had to buy 4 new tires for my car! Oh, glorious day!

The Great Wall

China's Night Life

Getting Started

It's official, we have EMBRYOS! We received a call from Cooper Clinic that we got batches #88, 334 and 475! Batch 88 is Chinese, Batch 334 is Thai/loatian and Batch 475 is English/German/Italian. The three batches combined will give us a total of 4 embryos. We would of liked to have at least 6 embryos to help ensure that we'd have at least 3 embryos for transfer. We are very excited about all of this! This will be our 2nd time to reserve embryos. We had to let our first batch go back last year because we weren't ready and it just didn't seem to be the right time.

We seem to have a very special attachment to batch 88. That was the same batch we chose before, except then there were alot more embryos in the batch. But those embryos have now been made into BABIES! The donor parents had boy/girl twins, another couple is currently pregnant and another couple had a boy! So hopefully this strong embryo will thrive and turn into a little boy or girl!

I'm hoping to keep a blog of all that's going on, so I can show our baby/babies how they came about. Donor embryo adoption is such a unique concept and really wonderful!