New Journey, New Blog

After thinking about it for the last 3 days, well weeks actually, I think that I will keep the blog up and going. I cannot shut it down at this time, it's nice to know others are benifiting from my story and well, I like it too, it's a part of who I am, so I'm thinking I'll keep it up. Thanks to my commenters, and the emails too, I really do appreciate your advice in helping me figure out just what to do.

Though I have to say that I may not post on here often. I am starting a new journey and you can follow me there at:

http://growingfamiliessurrogacystyle.blogspot.com/

as well as my family blog located on the sidebar.

Thanks so much for all the support, advice, well wishes, and thoughts as I went through this adventure with S and B. It's been a great run and I'm excited to do it again, in a whole new way.

See ya on the other side........

Gone visiting

Okay so this post is seriously late, but it's taken me this long to collect my photos and update the blogs.....so here it is, from October...sorry

Yup, gone visitin'.

Great time too....who did I visit you might ask? Well who else...but my precious friend and baby friend Sarah and Brielle. Just us girls...no one else, they were too busy working making the dough, (and my kids were in school).


So after my run this morning I shot down to their place and spent a few hours just catching up.


If you can imagine little B was putting on quite a show she was totally crawling, the little monkey, and laughing up a storm. What was even more shocking was how big she is compared to my neice who is 15 months...their almost the same size!


Sarah cooked me an awesome lunch while I got to spoon feed Brielle! I love love love it, it's always so funny to watch their expressions and funny faces. B was really quite enjoyable to feed as she likes to take her time....I remember with Taylor it was nuts..you couldn't get it in fast enough!


It was a great day, had to head out and go back to work. It really was a great day though...thanks S!

I can hardly believe baby B is now 10 months old...despite the fact that I wrote this when she was 8 months...can you tell time is slipping away from me here? I just love going over to their blog and getting all the little updates and seeing lots of pictures, Sarah is just amazing with her blog and I'm so glad she does it, as well, got me into it too!

As for this blog, I'm not sure what to do.....this journey is finished, though my love for B, S and little B will never fade, but the surrogacy part is finished. What do I do? Continue on here with my updates, or just start updating over in my 'family' blog since well, the journey itself is done? Or should I keep this one going for updates?

The thing is I'm entering another journey and don't want to put it here. This blog is special, meant for team 'Miss B' and anything added to that would take away from it and it's specialness.

Yet I don't want to close it either cause it's such a beautiful story too...and yet 3 blogs will be a challenge to keep up with, especially hoping for other readers to do too. So I need some suggestions....end this one but not close it and all future updates go to the "life blog" or keep it going just for updates? What do you think...????

8 months, really?

I can hardly believe that little B is 8 months old. Cuttin teeth, driving cars, and almost sleeping through the night!

It's hard to believe, just amazing!

It's hard to believe that CYNs surro twins are over 6 months, where does the time go?

That means my own kids are 8 months older, what happened?

It's hard to believe that my own surro twins are now 3.

It's hard to believe how quickly life can pass you by when your not paying attention.

I'm ready for time to slow down, it's just too darn fast for me.

A post about my visit.......

Okay, so I'm finally getting the chance to post about my visit with S, B and little B. Imagine that, only 2 months later!! Ahhhh.

Better late than never I guess, and well, it's not something I can forget too quickly.

It was a crazy weekend, Anthony went off to his camp, Ian and Bailey went off to their camp, and Taylor and I had planned a fun weekend with just us. We camped in the backyard, in the rain, and went to the zoo, where it also rained...lol, but on Sunday we were invited over to S and B's house to have a nice little visit...

We got there a little after 10, I of course was running later than expected as usual. When I got there, I was so excited to see them all!

Brielle was going through a little "stranger awareness period" so I expected not to be able to hold her, but I got lucky. She gave me 10 precious minutes with her on my lap (or something like that, I wasn't timing or anything). She was great, looking around, checking things out. Taylor, she just wanted to play with the toys and of course the dog...but doggie wasn't in a great place so doggie was off limits.

We had some lunch together and what was the best part of the entire thing was seeing Brad all slinged up, eating lunch standing up with baby in sling, bouncing away! It was so cute.

As a surrogate just being able to share in the family joy is such a treat, as friends. To see the family come to life, to watch them as new parents, brings back my own memories.

What's more is that it was just really nice to sit and talk with Sarah. We had a great chat, which is rare considering she has a newborn and I had my 5 year old.

I can't wait to do it again. I love just getting together and hanging out. I enjoy S and B's company, and it's always nice to see little B as well, she is growing so fast, to think she's already 6 months by the time I wrote this post!

Hopefully sometime in the summer it'll warm up enough and we'll do a get together at S's moms, do some swimming and lots of catching up!

All in all a great visit, thanks S, B and little B!!!!

Taking time to welcome.....

Little Scarlett into Nat and Marty's arms!!!!!!!!

I just wanted to do a shoutout to them as another dream complete, another family together!

I have had the priviledge of watching their journey through surrogacy from beginning to end, first meeting them at the clinic on their quest to baby making, to now, where the pictures are showing a sweet family of 3.

A huge congrats to all of them and a special shoutout to their surrogate Beth who did such an amazing job baking little Scarlett!

Horray for all of you!

To view their story go here: http://natandmarty.blogspot.com/

Has it been a year?

Just recently my sweet IM informed me through her blog that it's been a year since we first transferred. Just amazing.....to think a year ago today.

So here's my walk down memory lane.....

A year ago this time my IPs and I walked into Dr. D's office wearing our fertility necklesses and suited up for the big moment. As we entered the prep area we were all an abundance of excitment and nerves...excitment for the big day, for what's about to happen and nerves for it to work.

Before the transfer we shared lots of laughs, we were the only ones in there as I recall and having a ball. B was cracking the jokes as he handled the awkwardness of it all very well, and the time was well spent just hanging out.

Time came and into the operating room we go. Transfer done...it was that quick. Back to the prep/recovery suite, well, it's a reclining chair and 2 other chairs and a curtain, but that's all the room we needed. Laughing was hard not to do, I kept saying don't make me laugh, you'll jiggle the baby, but I think the laughter was good for her, afterall she stuck around for 9 more months of it!

A year ago today we official began our journey together, lots of prep, talks, and emotions prior, lots of meds, appts, fears and milestones....seeing Brielle with her family makes it all worth it. I can hardly believe it's been a year.

One a side note: I am officially done pumping as of this past weekend. That is my last link to this pregnancy and it seems fitting all is complete a year later. I was able to give over 3000oz of breast milk to a sweet little girl through Milkshare and it was an awesome experience. But life is getting busy, and well, I'm ready to let go of what was left of the pregnancy and have my body be my own again. I'm ready to have the free time too....it was a committment I enjoyed very much but I have to say it's nice to pass out on the couch and not worry about pumping before sleeping, or sleeping in an extra half hour in the morning because I don't have to pump. I will do it again though should the opportunity arise, I think it really helped in many ways and something I really did enjoy doing.

Thanks again for everyones support, and a special thanks to my IPs, S and B, for standing by me, for trusting me with their treasure, for walking with me through every aspect of this journey and always being someone I can rely on from beginning to end.

COMPLETE

Yup, that's right, complete. Tuesday marked a very special day for my IPs, as their journey to parenthood is complete.

What do you mean? I mean they got their baby right? Well, they didn't in the eyes of the law....now they do!!!!!!! Parentage went through and my IPs can breathe a sigh of relief that this is all behind them and noone can challenge anything or make any waves. It's complete for them.

Now they can rake in some moula....baby bonus can't come fast enough, S loves to shop! LOL.

Anyway, this post is late (the judge signed and approved everything on Tuesday) but better late than never!

So CONGRATS S, B and baby B, your officially, legally, a family! To some it may seem like it's only paperwork, but in surrogacy that's a big deal and time for celebration!!!!