Just making a note of today. Sharp twingy/stabbing pains in the left of my lower abdomen. Hopefully it is the start of implantation, or even ovulation itself.
I flew up to Sydney early Monday morning (my alarm was set at 3am to catch a 6am plane!) and stayed the day at IF's place. As soon as I arrived we did an insem..to which I think I had far more of an idea of what I was doing. (smaller syringe size to give more control and exactly where my Cervix was...I liken self insemination to trying to hit Ping Pong balls in the dark with a tiny dark. This time I was trying to HIT the pingpong ball and not the wall around it!!
Chosen donor (I will call him C) had had all his testing when they had looked into egg donation with a dear friend so all relevant testing had been done as well as a quarantine period. Sadly the start of the roller coaster of emotions for them in a TTC journey as the embryos that were created did not respond well and couldn't be frozen.
All paperwork, legals and Counselling has been done over that time, it varies slightly from what is required for a gestational surrogacy but not too much.
This is what is termed as a 'Traditional Surrogacy Journey' where it is my egg that is used. IVF clinics won't help out with this legally, so my hubby had to be very ok with me 'self inseminating' with another mans biological material. I think that is the most PC way I can put it...trust me I could be a lot blunter ;)
Anyway..so here we are today, the TWW.
