26 weeks - 98 days to go!!!

26 weeks down, 98 days to go and all is well, we received the 3D scan and some belly pics of Jyoti. She looks great and getting bigger by the day they tell me. Hmmm.. I wonder how big she will be in 10 weeks or so.

Nothing new to report, no measurements were taken during this scan as it wasn't a scheduled scan just done for our viewing pleasure.

Mark and I are so very grateful and feel blessed that we have this amazing woman carrying our baby who taking such good care of our herself and in turn our baby. She is truly an amazing lady and we will be forever thankful to her and her family. The level of care that the surrogates receive from SCI is second to none and that is made evident by the healthy babies that are being born.

Here are the 3D and belly pics of our beautiful baby and surrogate at 25w 6d, enjoy!

25 weeks

Just a quick post, we received our scan on Saturday and everything looks great with baby and Jyoti is feeling well. Baby is still measuring 4 days ahead and has very long legs.

No profile or 3D pics this time but we have requested an additional 3D scan to be done, that will be done this week sometime and also we should receive a belly shot of Jyoti's growing belly.

Some other exciting news is that I offically go on maternity leave on 2nd December!! 7 weeks to go, not that I am counting. It has been kind of strange telling clients that I am going on maternity leave in December especially if I am seeing them face to face, as the first thing they do is look at your belly, it makes for an interesting conversation, most people have heard about surrogacy but don't really know the process and are fascinated and excited to hear about our journey to parenthood.

The next set of milestones we are aiming for:

11/2 weeks - Start of 3rd trimester- YAY!!!!!!!! We are on the home stretch!!
4 weeks - Next scan due
7 weeks - Finish work and OMG this makes 32 weeks!!

Time is flying by now, before we know it Christmas will be here and it will be time to fly to India to meet our baby.

Lots of baby dust to those in Delhi at the moment, good luck and hope to hear some good news in a few weeks!!

x

24 weeks!! and Thank you

Firstly, thank you to everyone for your kind messages of support over losing Delta, it's so nice that we have the support from friends, family and of course our surro family, whom we have never met personally but have been brought together through Surrogacy.


Now for the good stuff, no official news but what a relief to be at 24 weeks. It is a real milestone, if the baby was to be born this early there is a 50% chance of survival, by 28 weeks it jump to 90%, of course we are praying that this little one stays put for at least another 13 weeks so we can both be there in India when he/she is born.


These are the stats for 24 weeks:

Baby Size

13.5 in or 34.5cm

and the size of a rutabaga - apparently this is like a swede

Baby Weight

1.5 lb or 680g

Baby

Your baby's body parts are continuing to become more proportional to each other. Baby fat is also continuing to fill in your baby's wrinkled skin for a smoother look and more hair is growing, developing texture and color.

Congratulations to all who have had fantastic news in the past few weeks, it is so awesome to be able to follow others on their journey to parenthood, following blogs becomes very addictive and I have passed this addiction on to the girls at work. Every morning we check for updates and we have a chat about who's waiting for tests, scans or who has had babies. It has been a very emotional office over the past few months. They too feel part of our surro family.

Our next scan should be here next week, so stay tuned for an update.