TPR Pregnancy Check-in 8/23

[longhornwino0907]

This is a check-in for those of you (or your SO) who are pregnant as a result of TPR including donor sperm, donor eggs, donor embryos, gestational carrier, surrogacy, or any combination of those. Lurkers are welcome to come in and ask questions or become part of the check-in!

Point of clarification: I am using 'surrogacy' to mean traditional surrogacy (using the surrogate's eggs) and gestational carrier where the carrier's eggs are NOT used. They are sometimes referred to as 'traditional surrogacy' and 'gestational surrogacy' respectively.

1. How far along are you?
2. How are you feeling?

QOTW: Are you looking forward to fall? What's your favorite thing about that season?

~~~BFPs~~~
Acting as gestational carrier
ashleysyn - EDD 11/23

Donor eggs
kaliRN - EDD 10/27 with singleton
longhornwino0907 - EDD 10/27
dream2be3 - EDD 12/28 with twins
dukegirlsc - EDD 4/2 with twins! Congrats and welcome

Donor embryos


~~~New & Soon-to-be Grads~~~


~~~Book List~~~
If you find other books you'd like to add, please let me know.
All forms: What Makes a Baby, Cory Silverberg
Surrogacy: Sophia's Broken Crayons, Crystal Falk
Surrogacy: The Very Kind Koala, Kimberly Kluger-Bell
Egg Donation: The Pea that Was Me, Kimberly Kluger-Bell
Egg Donation: The Very Special Ducklings, Wava Cirisan
Egg Donation: Mommy, Was Your Tummy Big?, Carolina Nadel
Egg Donation: One More Giraffe, Kim Noble
Egg Donation: A Very Special Lady, Nell Carswell

[kaliRN]

It's been a long time since I've checked in here. I'm 30+5 and doing pretty good. Still struggling with HG at times and currently bad back pain. I'm seeing a PT and using a good hot water bottle. Otherwise I'm nesting and trying to get things organized in baby boys room. My showers are in a couple weeks and I'm looking forward to them!

QOTW: I am looking forward to fall. 1 bc that's when baby comes and 2 bc the cooler weather is so nice. I can't wait for the cider mills! They open soon and I'm so excited!

[longhornwino0907]

kaliRN, I'm so excited to go to a cider mill when I come to visit!

[longhornwino0907]

I never came back to actually post my update!

30+6 today with my baby girls. We have a growth scan with the MFM tomorrow to check on Liv. Our doula and my therapist also both suggested that we ask to look at Cate, too, so we can start to get an idea of what to expect her to look like when she's delivered. We met with the Special Deliveries nurse on Monday at the hospital, so I'm feeling better that we'll be in capable hands – she's already put together a binder with all of our history and info, and there's one for the nurses and one for NICU, just in case. We'll hopefully get our birth/post-delivery plan all written out this weekend and sent out to the appropriate parties, too.

O seems to be doing great in there; she's gonna just cartwheel her way out one of these days, I swear! We're getting so excited and anxious to bring her home.

Trying out acupuncture for my carpal tunnel. Appointment number three is today, and last night was probably the worst pain I've had since this started up. Felt like I'd broken my wrist, and then it moved to my elbow, and then my shoulder. Excruciating pain. I basically had to sleep sitting up to avoid putting my right arm into any unusual position. If this doesn't start to help in another couple of sessions, I may take my OB's advice and call a hand specialist about maybe getting a cortisone shot to help.

QOTW: COOLER WEATHER! The Texas heat was so stifling this year, and while my back porch pool helped, I'm ready for cooler weather, windy days, and leggings (because hello stretchy pants!). It also means baby is almost here!

[dream2be3]

Thanks for the check-in longhornwino0907! Glad things are coming together for you. You and kaliRN are getting so close to having outside babies!

Sorry you are still dealing with HG kaliRN. I can't wait for the nesting stage - I hope you are enjoying it!


AFM, 21w6d and still waiting to feel more movement from the twinkies. I had to schedule a last-minute appointment with my OB for this Friday because my keytones registered as moderate this morning. He believes it's just because I was taking my insulin but wasn't eating (strep throat) but wants to review my blood sugar numbers to be sure. I'm hoping this leads to a quick peek at the twinkies too.