We embarked on this journey with 3 plans in mind to get us to egg retrieval. Plan A, Plan B and Plan C. Our main goal has been to cycle here at home for as long as possible as Cam doesn't have a lot of annual leave accrued and seeing as we are leaving Lawson at home with my parents while we are in Mumbai the least time away from Lawson the better.
Plan A -Was to get a GP to write a prescription for the medication needed, purchase it from a pharmacy and administer it myself. I have done 3 ivf cycles in the past so I know how to inject myself and how the medication works. Plus also I am under the direction of Dr K so if I had any concerns I could get her help if needed. After attempting plan A this week it failed as we found out that a GP is not authorised to prescribe fertility medication, only a fertility specialist is. Plus also one of the medications I need to be on is not available in Australia.
Plan B - See a fertility Specialist. After numerous phone calls and luck we managed to get a cancellation to see a fertility specialist yesterday. It ended up a waste of time and money because the minute the Dr heard the word "surrogacy" his wall went up and shut us out. He made us feel like what we are doing is illegal and we wanted him to help us break the law. This is defiantly not true. There are lots of grey areas in surrogacy and all we where wanting was this Dr to look outside the square and into the grey area but he wouldn't even look. Anyway I'm not going to get started on this subject as I would be here all day writing my views on the subject. So this now left us with our last option, Plan C.....
Plan C - I will fly to Mumbai on my own and do the entire treatment there and Cam will meet me there around day 11/12 just before my egg retrieval. I'm trying to just focus on the benefits of this rather than how much I am going to miss my boys. This way I can get all my medication without a problem but most of all we are not looked upon as a criminal, just a normal loving couple who are wanting a family.
Plan A -Was to get a GP to write a prescription for the medication needed, purchase it from a pharmacy and administer it myself. I have done 3 ivf cycles in the past so I know how to inject myself and how the medication works. Plus also I am under the direction of Dr K so if I had any concerns I could get her help if needed. After attempting plan A this week it failed as we found out that a GP is not authorised to prescribe fertility medication, only a fertility specialist is. Plus also one of the medications I need to be on is not available in Australia.
Plan B - See a fertility Specialist. After numerous phone calls and luck we managed to get a cancellation to see a fertility specialist yesterday. It ended up a waste of time and money because the minute the Dr heard the word "surrogacy" his wall went up and shut us out. He made us feel like what we are doing is illegal and we wanted him to help us break the law. This is defiantly not true. There are lots of grey areas in surrogacy and all we where wanting was this Dr to look outside the square and into the grey area but he wouldn't even look. Anyway I'm not going to get started on this subject as I would be here all day writing my views on the subject. So this now left us with our last option, Plan C.....
Plan C - I will fly to Mumbai on my own and do the entire treatment there and Cam will meet me there around day 11/12 just before my egg retrieval. I'm trying to just focus on the benefits of this rather than how much I am going to miss my boys. This way I can get all my medication without a problem but most of all we are not looked upon as a criminal, just a normal loving couple who are wanting a family.
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