Contractions

The agency sent me a draft copy of this surrogacy's contract yesterday. I read it on my new phone which was novel, but admittedly a bigger pain in the tuckus than it would have been on the computer. I won't bother with the details; it was basically the same as the last one, except this time we're opting out of legal counsel for the creation of the contract, because it's basically the same as the last one.

Last time we did this I was all a-dither, waiting anxiously for the next step and getting badly impatient with everything I saw as an obstacle. This time, I'm pleased to do it again, but I have a better sense of how things work, I think. I realize that the IVF clinic has many more patients than just me; that the agency is dealing with lots of different people in lots of different situations in lots of different stages of the process; that there are processes involved in each step that must be carefully followed to ensure everyone's protection.

Holy crap, I've grown up!

Ideally I'll be pregnant by May, but I'm not going to get all worked up if I'm not. It'll happen when it happens. Besides, I've got tons of other crap to deal with before then anyway.

I had to send a copy of the contract to my employer's HR department too. Of course, I already know what it's for so I just did the same thing I did last time: redact, redact, redact. They don't really need to know the dollar amounts, and they certainly don't need to know IF's name or address. I got the Big-Boss-Man's blessing a couple weeks ago, so as far as my job is concerned, I'm good to go. Personally I still don't see why they need to know about it at all, but ah well; such is bureaucracy.

So once the contract makes its way back to the agency, I just have to wait to go down to the clinic to get tested. Then back to the dino-shots (leuprolide, which my friend misread as liopleurodon, hence "dino-shots") then on to the embryo transfer. This time I don't have to sync up with a donor; we's usin' babysicles! HA! But seriously, I'm told that I.F. is in discussions with the IVF clinic about the timing of thawing the embryos for transfer.

And I think that's about it for now. I'll post more as things happen. :)