Our fist blog about our journey to becoming parents through adoption....
I have never been much of a blogger but I have been inspired by all the support we have been getting recently. I think we owe that much.
We have been through so much in such the short 5 years that we have been married when it comes to trying to start our family.
We first wanted to try to start our family when we had been married for only two years. We went and had a home study done and began the search for an adoption agency. Unfortunately every agency wanted prospective parents to be 25 or older and married for 5 years or more so we put our dreams of having a child on hold and we both focused on school.
About a year and a half later we decided that going through the state was the best way to go. We had our home study updated and attended classes to become foster/adoptive parents. This was in February of 2010. In September of 2010 we received the call we had been waiting for.We then welcomed a beautiful 9 month old baby boy into our home and family. He changed our lives forever and we enjoyed every minute that we had to spend with him. He ended up going back to his mother 4 days after his first birthday in December.
After he had gone back Rob, my sister and I talked about doing IVF. My sister wanted to donate eggs to us so that we could carry a baby of our own.
My sister and I started our medicines in July of 2011 and began the process of harvesting her eggs and getting my body ready to have those eggs implanted. Sara's harvest was successful. We got 10 eggs and by the end 5 had fertilized. We encountered a small bump in the road though. My uterus had filled with fluid and we were not able to implant the embryo's fresh. They were frozen and I underwent a D&C in September.
After my D&C and another round of medicine my body was finally ready for implantation. We did the embryo transfer on October 17th and found out we were not pregnant on October 28th. This broke our hearts once again.
A few months after that it was offered to us to become parents through surrogacy. We attempted two times for pregnancy and were not successful. The surrogate then backed out on us with no explanation at all.
So here we are on our endeavor to become parents again and we are praying with all of our hearts that this is our time and that our long wait is almost over. Please pray for us and help us in any way you are able to. Thank you so much for reading our blog. More to come!
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