Thursday, August 1, 2013

An egg-citing update about our donor!

We got the confirmation we were waiting for......the email that said "congrats! you've successfully matched with the egg donor"; which really just means "thanks guys, your check cleared".  As promised, I'm going to describe our egg donor in as much detail as I can so you can get create your own visual on what she looks like.  Actually, Chris and I are kind of creating our own visual on what she looks like too since all we have to go by is her baby pics.  We took a gamble....we're just hoping it pays off.  

Ok so she's a white girl (we briefly talked about a black egg donor since most mixed kids are gorgeous but we figured having two dads would already be enough to explain as he/she/they got older) born to an Italian mom and German dad.  We're hoping she doesn't have a feisty temper and a fresh mouth; I won't name names but we already have one of those in our house.  She's 22, 5'06" and currently weighs 125 pounds.  Over half of the donors were immediately eliminated since we gave a weight cut-off to any potential donor.....I'm not going to post what that weight is because I'm sure we'll look like a couple of dicks.  I'll just say we were pretty picky.  

She has a small body frame, born with blonde hair but it's now a light brown color and has blue-green eyes.  She's not married and doesn't have any kids of her own but plans to down the road.  In college, she played field hockey and was a competitive cheerleader.  Right now, she's working on getting her masters in social work.  I can't believe this is actually a question on her questionnaire but she's only had 2 partners in the last five years, I find this pretty remarkable for being 22 actually.  I hope this characteristic IS inherited in our kids from her......I won't give my number of partners by the time I reached 22 since I have family reading this but I will say there is a number 2 in it.  Hahaha....jk.  Maybe. 

If I see you out and you want to see her pics, ask me and I'll show you.  Or shoot me a text and I'll send you a screen shot of her two pics.  
So right now our carrier is taking more meds to trick her body into thinking it's pregnant and the egg donor is taking meds to get her ovaries into overdrive so we can get the most eggs out of her as we can.  This all takes 4-6 weeks in total.  Our nurse from the fertility clinic said that we'd be transferring the fertilized embryos to our carrier mid-September.  More waiting but at least I feel we're making some real progress.  I'll update the next post when it comes time to transfer

Thanks for reading.