Our first scan

We have received our first scan and they have confirmed that we have 2 gestational sacs, so if everything goes to plan we will be bringing twins home.

It is still early days yet but we have passed another milestone, they will do another scan next Friday and hopefully we will see 2 little heartbeats.

The results are in, take 2

IT'S POSITIVE!!!!!!!!

Finally the words we have been waiting to hear, we received an email last night saying that Jyoti's blood test came back positive and even more of a surprise is there is a good chance that we could be having twins!!

So now we wait, next week they will do a scan to confirm how many gestational sacs are present and the week after another scan to detect the heart beats. It is still very early stages and still a long way to go but we are over the first big hurdle.

We will update again next week.

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Update on embryo transfer

We have a small update, out of our 7 embryos 5 made the cut and all 5 were transferred on Monday. Out of the 5, 4 were Grade 1 and the other one was Grade 2.5. Grading is based on the quality and fragmentation of the cells, 1 being the best and 5 being the worst.

So at this point we are still in the 2 week wait and have a week or so to go before we find out if we have been successful this time, fingers crossed.

For those who are wondering, the chances of all 5 embryos implanting aren't very high. Because if the complications with high order multiples for the surrogate and the also babies, SCI have a policy that surrogates can only carry twins.

As soon as we have some more news we will update again.

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Update

So egg retrieval went well and the good news is we have 7 embryos! Bad news is I am suffering from mild ovarian hyper stimulation and feel like I have been run over by a truck but day by day it is getting better. Dr Shivani said it will take a week or 2 till I'm back to full steam.

So everything thing at the moment is right on track, Dr Shivani is really happy with report from the embryologist and we are set for embryo transfer on Monday. From there we enter the 2 week wait period.

Tonight is our last night in Delhi, we fly out tomorrow at 8.45am local time and get into Perth early hours of Tuesday morning. We are both looking forward to a soft bed.

Will update when we have more news.

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Friday is the big day

So after a few scans and blood tests, Dr Shivani has decided that Friday will be egg retrieval day.

I had a scan on Monday and it showed 11 follicles in total ranging between 14-16mm, Dr S wanted to do a couple more days of treatment and then have another scan on Wednesday, so off we go yesterday to see Dr Jolly for the repeat scan and good news all 11 follicles are all over 18mm and he thinks that there could be a couple more hiding too.

After speaking with Dr S yesterday, she feels alot more confident that we will get a positive result this time, so fingers crossed. I had to give myself the trigger injection this morning at 6am to mature the follicles and egg retrieval is set for 4pm Delhi time tomorrow. They will fertilise them straight away and we should get a report from the embryologist on Saturday or Sunday to let us know how the embryos are travelling. Embryo transfer will more than likely be done next week sometime depending on how many eggs are collected and also how many fertlise.

Our second journey in Delhi is fast coming to an end, we leave to come home on Monday morning and land in Perth at midnight Tuesday, can't wait to sleep in my our SOFT bed. The beds here are so hard, I don't think I have had a good night sleep since I have been here.

We will update probably on Saturday with how the retrieval went.

Also a big Happy Birthday to Nanna Elvie, who is celebrating her 85th birthday today. Happy Birthday Nan!!

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Update

So where to begin, a few things have happened since my last update. We were told the other day that we would need to choose a new surrogate as "G" has had to be placed on an extended rest period, not really sure what that means but we always listen to the advice of the good doctor. So once again we received 4 profiles of prospective surrogates to go through and decide which one would be carrying our bundle/s of joy. This time it was a much easier choice, one of the profiles was of a young lady who has previously been a surrogate and delivered her surrogate baby last year, so we have decided to go with her.

Her name is Jyoti, she is 25, married and has 2 kids, a 4yo son and a 2yo daughter. We met her when we went in to sign the contracts and once again she is tiny, she is about 5' 3" and a gust of wind would blow her over. She was very shy or maybe she was in shock to see both of us towering over her. We ask for a photo with her but she was too shy. So we just thanked her for what she is about to do for us and how grateful we are, all through an interpreter of course.

So now on to what's been happening with me, well I had a scan and blood test on Friday to make sure things are headed in the right direction and good news I have at least 11 follicles all between 11 and 14mm and growing happily! So already things are looking better than last time. I will have another scan on Monday to check the size of the follicles and that will determine the day of egg retrieval. At this stage Dr Shivani said at the earliest Wednesday but most likely Thursday, just depends on the sizes of the follicles, they all need to be around 16 - 17mm in size before they are mature enough for retrieving.

We have been very adventurous with eating Indian food, the owner of the apartments and the B&B recommended an Indian takeaway just around the corner from where we are staying, so on Friday we thought lets give it a whirl, we ordered Butter Chicken, Lamb Korma, rice and some naan bread. I must say we were all surprised at how much we enjoyed it, I thought it was a little hot but but Mark and our Darwin friends thought it was ok. So tonight we thought we would have it again, we got the same dishes but it was about 3 times as hot!!

Today we didn't have any appointments so we did a bit of sight seeing around Delhi, we went to the Gate of India, which is a war memorial and also to the Red Fort both were packed with locals and tourists but still interesting and definitely worth a look. The downside of going sight seeing this time of year is the heat, it was over 40 degrees today so not that pleasant walking around outside in the sun.

I will update again tomorrow after my scan, night x