Appointment update

Our appointment went really great last week. Getting there was the hardest part. I'd forgotten how much I hate flying - and we had a layover on the way there and on the way back. But we made it :) :)

We got our rental car and then we drove from Atlanta to Knoxville, TN. It was nice to finally get in the car and relax. I pulled out my knitting as soon as we got out of Atlanta and we got to chat and relax for the entire drive - about three hours.

(I finished a sweater and a pair of socks last week, so I was very productive.)

I guess knitting's off topic.

I got medically cleared with a few minor caveats. There appeared to be a little bit of fluid in my uterus, which might signal there could be an infection. So I was given a prescription for some antibiotics and told to start that as soon as I get my next period. I also have to start my birth control at that time and then my lovonox.

So in a few weeks I'll be on:

• two types of antibiotics (for two weeks)
• birth control pills (just the active ones until I'm directed to stop)
• lovonox injections (I have to start that when I start the birth control pills)
• prenatal vitamins
• fish oil
• Vitamin D for 8 weeks (blood work done at the NEDC showed that my levels are low.)
• lots of kefir to counteract the antibiotics
• raspberry leaf tea

I can't remember if I'm supposed to be taking anything else?

The other thing that we're waiting on is for our homestudy to be reviewed so that we can start to be matched with another donor family. I'm getting anxious about that. My husband is going to be out of the country for three weeks starting Labor Day and even though we've set up our Skype accounts and that should work for our counseling/matching sessions I'm still hoping there aren't any hold ups that prevent us from making the November transfer group.

I just wish our social worker would get back to us so that I can start to emotionally process that it's going to happen in November, or that we're going to have to cool our jets until January - which would also be okay. I just want to know what to expect. I'll kinda be disappointed if we have to wait, just because I stopped breastfeeding to meet the November deadline, but that's the way it goes.

Feeling incredibly blessed though!!! We are so lucky to get medically cleared. We are so lucky that there are families out there who are willing to let us adopt their embryos.

I'm scared too. Scared to be sad, scared of the anxiety that these treatments bring.

But then there is my son. He's really crawling now and not just army crawling. He's started to say "dada." He gets super excited when he sees a bottle, a banana or a bowl of oatmeal cereal. He loves to eat and eat and eat. We have his 9 month appointment this Friday. He's such a ham! He smiles and engages everyone he sees. Yesterday at the grocery store he was totally "chatting up" the man in line behind us with his smiles and his eyes. He was trying to peek around me to smile at the man whenever I got in his way.

I'm also finished with breastfeeding him. He's 100% weaned, but we still have a supply of breast milk in the freezer. Right now he gets a combo of baby formula, breast milk and real food.

Well, that's all and that's a lot!

Prayers to all of you on this journey.

xo Jill