TPR Pregnancy Check-in 9/6

[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.

**I believe we have a new grad or two from the TTC thread, so let me know who I need to add!**

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

QOTW: It's football season! Are you into football? College or pro? Who's your team?

~~~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

[longhornwino0907]

32+5 over here and just impatiently waiting on baby girl. Had a blast spending the weekend with kaliRN; the weather was beautiful, we got her nursery pretty well planned out, and we're working on scheduling another visit to introduce the betrothed couple in the spring.

I've all but decided that if my cervix starts to look favorable, I'm going to request an induction at 39 weeks. H is less sure, but will go along with whatever I want to do as long as it doesn't put me or baby in danger. So we'll see how that goes. This is our last week without an appointment. OB next week, MFM the following, and then it's 36 weeks and weekly OB appointments from there on out. I have no idea how we got here already!

QOTW: I'm a HUGE football fan, especially college, but I'll watch pro, too. My H and I have been walking around singing "It's the most wonderful time of the year!" for about a week. I'll give you one guess who my team is, and they had a killer game on Sunday! I got so stressed out/excited that I had a pretty intense BH contraction while trying to celebrate the win.