A lot has changed in the years since I first started this blog: we successfully completed the surrogacy process when our son was born in 2016 and are now in the midst of a second journey. If you’re interested in catching up on what’s happened so far but don’t know where to start, here are some links to a few of the highlights:
Surrogacy Posts
- Birth Story, Part 1: The Day I Thought I’d Never Get to Have: A Surrogate Birth Story
- Birth Story, Part 2: The Best Day of My Life: A Surrogate Birth Story
- Questions on Life After Surrogacy
- Explaining Surrogacy… to a Child
What Gestational Surrogacy is Really Like (series)
- Part One: Getting Approved for Surrogacy
- Part Two: Surrogacy During IVF Treatment
- Part Three: Early Pregnancy
2014
- Meeting Our Surrogate Agency The first meeting with our surrogate agency as we began the search for a gestational carrier; October 28, 2014
- We’ve Met Our Match: Finding out we were officially matched with our gestational carrier, Elle*; November 19, 2014
- Meeting Our Gestational Carrier: Preparing to meet our gestational carrier & her husband in-person for the first time; December 14, 2014
2015
- Taking the Next Steps: Obtaining the legal and medical clearance required to start IVF treatment; January 21, 2015
- The First Day of Injections: The beginning of our IVF treatment cycle; February 20, 2015
- Our IVF Cycle: Eggs in Time for Easter: My egg retrieval results and initial embryo count; March 8, 2015
- We Did It: The Fresh Embryo Transfer: The fresh embryo transfer; March 15, 2015
- The Loneliest Moment: Receiving the negative embryo transfer results; March 26, 2015
- Embryo Transfer: The Frozen Edition: Transferring our last embryo; May 12, 2015
- Is This Real Life?: Receiving the positive embryo transfer results; May 25, 2015
- The Sweetest Sound in the World: The first ultrasound at 6 weeks; June 9, 2015
- Congratulations, You’ve Graduated: Graduating from the care of our fertility clinic and being released to a regular OBGYN; June 27, 2015
- It’s a…: Finding out the baby’s gender and experiencing our first in-person ultrasound; August 24, 2015
- The Growth and Development of Sweet Pea: Reaching the halfway point; October 30, 2015
- The Pipe Dream: Thinking about and hoping for a second child via surrogacy; November 12, 2015
2016
- Our Double Life: Leaving home for the baby’s birth; January 7, 2016
- The Wait: Waiting for Elle to go into labor; January 13, 2016
- Welcome, Sweet Pea: Announcing the arrival of our child; January 27, 2016
- The First Half: An update on the first six months; July 25, 2016
2017
- Life Update: One Year (and Three Months): An update on the first year; April 30, 2017
- The Second: The hope for another child; July 27, 2017
- Someday: Facing the past and future of my fertility; November 5, 2017
2018
- Since You Came Along: A post in honor of our son’s second birthday; January 24, 2018
- Surrogacy, The Second Time: Starting the process of surrogacy over again from scratch; January 27, 2018
- Here We Go, Again: A post on beginning again; March 5, 2018
- Searching for a Surrogate: Looking at finding a surrogate without the help of an agency; March 21, 2018
- The Time is Now: Beginning our IVF cycle; May 1, 2018
- Eggs to Embryos: The egg and embryo count from our IVF cycle; May 15, 2018
- Snowflakes in Spring: The final results of our IVF treatment and PGS testing; May 29, 2018
2019
- Begin Again: Preparing for our 3rd IVF cycle; January 6, 2019
- Third Time’s the Charm?: The beginning of our most recent IVF treatment; January 18, 2019
- Retrieval & Results: The ending and results from IVF #3; April 20, 2019
- Finding a Match: The process of finding a gestational carrier for our second journey; May 20, 2019
- The Last Steps: Obtaining medical clearance and the last of the legal process to get to an embryo transfer; September 5, 2019
2020
- Making Plans: Receiving a transfer date and preparing for the embryo transfer; January 19, 2019
- I Want You More: Frozen Embryo Transfer: Transferring the frozen embryo remaining from IVF #2 in 2018; March 1, 2020
- Cheer Up, Buttercup: Results from our frozen embryo transfer; May 9, 2020
*Name changed for privacy reasons
