Hi there

No real update... but I'm updating so you don't think I've forgotten to update you ;)

IM wants to see another lawyer who was recommended by a friend. We've still got contracts to go over and we're waiting on getting a sample contract from whichever lawyer she settles on.

We're also waiting on IM to have a natural cycle herself before beginning the drug regimine.

My cycle is due again Feb 15/16. We'll have our saline tentatively on CD9 (24th-ish). I believe we'll start birth control pills in early March (CD3) and begin trying to sync our cycles up.

A lot has to happen before then, so we're just waiting, waiting.

Snow delay

The IPs lawyer appointment has been rescheduled to next Thursday. We've got around a month to work out all the terms before we need to do the saline ultrasound. Since IM needs to complete a full cycle herself, this works out great. No pressure to hurry; Plenty of time to make sure that all the expectations are laid out and everyone's butts are covered legally.

I'm really looking forward to this. If everything works out on the current schedule, we should be looking at a Thanksgiving baby! =))

*matched!*

We've agreed to be exclusive, so I've said "thanks,notthanks,gbye" to others that I had been talking to. I feel REALLY good about this match.

Next steps - the four of us meeting for dinner or something
Lawyers, contracts negotiation
Saline ultrasound
Possible MARCH transfer!

Ooooh!

Meeting a local potential IM tomorrow morning. I reeeally like her and think we have a lot in common. She's one of three couples I'm currently talking to (ALL of whom are local!!)

YAY!

Posted an ad.

Seems like old times, LOL.

Posted my ad and made an email address just for surrogacy. p1p3r@bigstring.com

Feel free to pimp it out if you know someone looking. =P I can also forward my ad.

A New Year; A New Start

Finally got the reply I was looking for from L, the IM. She's been quite preoccupied by her ailing mother, who lives several states away. There's no doubt that her focus needs to be there and that any surrogacy plans are on an indefinite hold.

I'm glad to have answers and sad that this journey has come to an end even before it got really started.

That feeling just before you fall.

Contact with the IPs has been almost nonexistent in the last two months. I (naively?) assumed it was because of the holidays and every one was just busy. I know I was and I was secretly happy to have the holidays without doing the shots. Martini's with the inlaws just wouldn't have been the same.

Anyhoo... two weeks ago, DH got a bill in the mail. Not just a bill... a collection notice. It was from the blood work for his STD testing. I forwarded the bill to L and S at least a month prior and didn't for the least bit think they wouldn't take care of it. My bill has yet to be received... maybe they were waiting on it??

So, I emailed L to check and ask 'what up' with the bill. DH's crapometer was starting to ping and I was holding out hope that it just slipped their mind in the chaos of a busy month. I got an email back saying she'd been out of town but would get back Sunday (laaaast Sunday). Her mother was sick. I told her that I would be off work all this past week but would have access to cell and email. I haven't received another reply. No call, no return calls and no further contact. WTH?

She's got another day or two to respond to my email from this morning (hey - what's going on - what's up with this bill, do i need to pay it???) or "else". It's obvious, even to me, that this is the end. I cannot move forward with IPs that can't take care of a simple inexpensive bill (<$150) before it hits collections. That, and I'm not given the courtesy of a BS excuse or anything. I'm being ignored for whatever reason. =/


Short of a miracle explanation at the 11th hour (coma?), I'll be looking for new IPs in the next few weeks.