We have a date

 After a heap of blood and urine tests our preliminary tests have all been done now except for Cam's semen analysis. We've had a bit of trouble finding somewhere to get all the tests the Dr has asked for but we have now found a place that will do the most important ones and our Dr is happy with that. Cam's booked in for Wednesday and once we get those results all the prelim test will be finished and it will be full steam ahead.

We are able to choose when we would like the egg retrieval to be which is great. I just need to take birth control pills for 1 month prior to that date and it will prepare my cycle. We chose our date based on flight availability and wanting to be home for Lawson's 1st birthday. So if all goes to plan I will be having my egg retrieval on the 20th March. I can't believe that is only 6 weeks away! So many emotions keep running through my head... excitement, fear, nerves..... I think the best thing to do is to keep busy and focus on the end result.

Giving Back

I am very proud to announce that I am now officially an organ donor! To be honest I hadn't given it much thought before we ventured into surrogacy and the thought of my body parts being removed creeped me out a little. But now I look at it in a whole different light. The way I see it now is a stranger gave us the gift of life. Without the help of her body Lawson wouldn't be alive. So now hopefully one day I can return the favour to a stranger by giving them the gift of life as well with my body. 

Introduction

My name is Nardia and this is our second round of surrogacy in India. We have a beautiful 10 month old son Lawson from the help of a wonderful Indian surrogate. I only discovered the world of blogging halfway through our pregnancy so I didn't bother starting one then but now that we are embarking on this journey again I wanted to do one.

For those of you that don't know me I'll fill you in on our story. I have wanted to be a mother since as young as I can remember. There where many professions that I thought I'd like to get into but deep down I always knew what I really wanted to do. That was to be a Mum. I married the man of my dreams and we started trying for a baby straight away. Sadly our plans came crashing down only 12 weeks after our wedding day when I was diagnosed with cervical cancer. My only cure was to have a radical hysterectomy which left me unable to carry a baby. As hard as this was to deal with and get through I never gave up hope of having a baby. I was barely out of hospital before I was researching other avenues to have our baby. We started the adoption process (which we later stopped when we found out we where pregnant with Lawson) and spent months researching surrogacy both in Australia and overseas. Our decision was pretty easy, the laws to do surrogacy in Australia where so ridiculous that it's pretty much impossible to do it. To do it in America was so expensive we would never be able to save the money, which then left us with the option of India. Initially it was the cheaper cost that drew us to India but now after having been through the whole process I can honestly say it was the best decision we made doing it in India and I recommend it to anyone who is in the same boat as us. Saying this though you still need to choose your clinic and doctors wisely.

So here we are again about to embark on another roller coaster as I like to call it. We are using the same clinic again which is Corion. Dr Kadam is an amazing doctor and we had such a great experience with our first pregnancy that we couldn't go with anyone else. We had two attempts last year with our left over frozen embryos from last time but unfortunately neither attempts resulted in a pregnancy so we are now starting from scratch again. Our aim is to be in Mumbai for the egg retrieval in March and seeing as I've only just realised this isn't that far away, I've been running around getting everything together to get the ball rolling.

Cam and I had all our screening tests done this week so hopefully we'll have those back by the start of next week and I'm in contact with Dr K about recruiting a surrogate and working out a cycle for me. The beginnings have well and truly started - eek!