The first step was to find an egg donor as Amanda wanted to carry these babies, she did not want them to be from her eggs, otherwise the thought of giving them up would have been impossible for her.
An egg donor was needed for the transfer and the agency notifies Amanda, Rose and Tim that there is one available. Excitement soon turns to disappointment as the egg donor has fallen through. This happened again with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th donor. By now I am watching Amanda, she seemed worried yet still confident that everything would work out. She had started her injections in preparation for the transfer of eggs with the 4th donor and these are her words to Rose in an email:
“Well, the first injection took place about two hours ago. My daughter's birth family was visiting and she is a certified nursing assistant, so I said you do it! It was nothing at all - such a small, thin needle that I barely felt it. So I kept going "you do it", "no i'll do it" "ok you do it the first time to see how it feels and then I will do it another time". I ended up letting her do it but will do my own tomorrow and the days that follow. I have no problem with needles but I have to admit I couldn't imagine jabbing myself in the stomach!!!
That was the first step of the next phase of our journey! Tomorrow's the last pill and we are moving right along quickly now. I couldn't ask for more in being a part of your lifelong dream!"
This ended up being the first of 2 x 60 days of injections and took place from April-May 2009. I say the first as unfortunately, the fourth donor fell through. NOT AGAIN!! Personally, by now I was thinking ‘whoa how long is Amanda going to endure this’ – I myself am not a needle person and to go through all of that would not be very endearing to me at all. Finally a fifth donor was found and accepted and so from July-September 2009, Amanda began the second round of injections. I had declined her offer of showing me the needles as yes I am a fainter, and just the thought of jabbing them in my stomach made it turn sour.
Amanda kept up with her positive thoughts though as shared here with Rose and Tim: “glad you are all so confident and I am right there with you. this just has to be it. I am going to go to some of FCI's appts on eating better for fertility, acupuncture, fertility detox, exercise, etc. just so that I prepare my body as best as possible. I am eating well right now and proud of myself because I get undisciplined quick! I did a detox of my system before this new cycle because I felt that the hormone craziness was adding so much fat to my belly and thighs and then began a vegetable system that evens out hormones and I lost weight and feel soooo much better”
So here she was, about to start the second round of a 60 day cycle and she was doing everything she could to make sure she was prepared physically.
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