Picking up the Boys!

Things are official!! We are the proud parents of 2 embryos! As a matter of fact, 2 male embryos! That's right I'm the proud Momma of 2 boys. But first I will walk you through the steps.

First- we needed to go through all the legalities.  It was actually fairly easy for the Donor family and Chris and I. We all agreed pretty easily. We just want whatever is best for the boys.  We hired our lawyer, they wrote up a "standard" agreement and then recommended a lawyer to the donor family at our cost. We all agreed to the terms and sign.. simple.. but took SOOO long!!

Next- comes all the "red tape" of NYS.  I have to say we couldn't LOVE our Fertility Clinic any more than we do.  They truly care about their patients and are beyond supportive.  They have helped me so much through this whole process. I have heard so many horror stories that embryo donations are just not possible in New York.  But they helped me through the process and were willing to put in extra work and steps on their end, all to make our dreams come true. Basically, its all about the testing that was done to donor families and the embryos, NY is very strict on this and wants to make sure the embryos are "safe" to cross into the state... which is a little bizarre considering their are already ours and going into my body willingly... but whatever.  It took many weeks of emailing back and forth before we were finally given the ok to get our babies.

Then comes the pick up! We decided again with the help and support of our clinic to go pick up the embryos ourselves! Which meant we would literally picked up a nitrogen tank from the office, drove to Morgantown, WV (thats right MORGANtown!!), went to the donor's clinic and they placed the embryos inside the tank and we drove back to NY.  This was about a 7 hour drive, so we left on a Sunday, picked them up Monday am and headed straight to our clinic.  The boys had a successful first car ride and remained perfect little snowflakes.

Here is a picture of our first family road trip.