I said that I would blog about our journey at least monthly so I didn't want July to slip away without posting something. July was a stressful month. My mom has now been in the hospital for almost three months and our surrogacy journey has been a waiting game.
June 14th came and went. This was the date when our egg donor should have been done taking her birth control pills so we could wait for her cycle to start. We exchanged a few e-mails with our agency about paperwork around that date but the director of the agency didn't want to e-mail us an update. He wanted to talk via Skype. Tom was convinced this was great news. I was convinced of the opposite.
Tom got home from work early and we waited for a Skype call at the appointed time... and we kept waiting... and waiting. Finally we get an e-mail from the coordinator. The director (who was supposed to be calling) didn't have internet access because he was traveling in Argentina. He called the coordinator in Mexico, who then e-mailed us. We rescheduled the call for the next evening.
Tom had a business dinner so I took the call on my own. It was not great news. Nothing had happened. First, the egg donor forgot to take all of her pills, making the date we had been waiting on useless. Second, the fertility clinic that our agency was using in Villahermosa was not giving them the service they hoped to receive so our agency decided to work with the agency that they originally worked with in Cancun. We don't have any way of verifying this information which is a bit nerve-racking.
We keep reminding ourselves that: all e-mails are answered within 48 hours, usually 24; everyone we met in Villahermosa was kind and seemed genuine; and last but definitely not least... that another American couple in San Diego has a successful pregnancy from using our agency.
So nerves aside, our sperm has gone on Spring Break to Cancún. We hope it ends up at our new clinic and not at Señor Frogs! Like many American children, ours will be conceived in Cancún... just under slightly different circumstances. The egg donor is supposed to be done taking her pills on July 27th. What is supposed to happen after the 27th can be seen in my last blog post. If everything goes to plan (which we accept may not happen), we should have more news around September 1st.
I will write again in August. In the meantime, thanks for your love and support.
