How to get pregnant.

Edward and Clay moved to Ma. so Edward could attend Harvard. This could not have worked out better. We live in Western Ma. so it would be a two hours trip to get to our home. This whole experience would be different., instead of getting progesterone injections, I would be clocking my cycle. Instead of using donor egg, I would be using my own. Having two sets of twins back to back did take a bit of a toll on my body, I needed a kind pregancy. One that would not require bedrest or being away from the general public for more than a day. The down side to all this is the emotional piece. OK....I guess I should say that also is a positive. It's both where traditional surrogacy is concerned. Although, at the very start of all this, I had no idea that even in the surrogacy world, we would be considered unusual.
Now before you read on I have to tell you, we were all medically tested. This is a sorce of discomfort for some people. Everyone received a glowing bill of health, so we marched on with our plans. We had to do inseminations. I decided to do them with my obgyn, instead of doing them at home. Well, atleast at the start of our journey. We did procede with some home inseminations when after the first month I didn't get pregnant. Let me tell you, talk about uncomfortable. They greeted us at our door, with a little brown bag. You can guess what was in it. From the looks on their faces it appeared they wanted to leave the little brown bag on the stoop and run. It was a bit humorous. The insems were no big deal, in fact compared to the twins, it was a piece of cake. It took 6 months of clocking my cycle, brown little bags, and doctors appointments before I became pregnant. I had also begun my nursing program so I had that as a distraction. It also helped that Piper was in the middle of her first surrogacy.
I was on top of the world during my pregnancy. I purchased the cutest maternity outfits know to man and women.We found out at 20 weeks that I was carring a girl. Now, some of you may be wondering how that felt to me. I mean I had two boys. I also had two step-daughters. I have to tell you I was thrilled. I knew this wasn't my baby, but on the very primal level it was. She is and always will be Edward and Clays daughter, but that little piece of me that knew her right from conception, that's the part that makes me her mother, surrogate or otherwise.. You can decide.