Monday, September 28, 2009

Let the journey begin!

For the past 2-3 years I've had egg donation on my mind.
The idea of helping someone have a family who is struggling with fertility issues makes me happy.
I went through 3yrs of wondering weather or not I would be able to have more children and it was frightening, sad, stressful and I just lost myself.
In early 2009 I made the decision to go for it! I contacted my Reproducive Endoctrinologist (who helped me get pregnant with my 2nd child, which also resulted in my 3rd child a year after that). I began the paperwork but was told I was ineligable at that time due to the fact I was still breastfeeding.
My youngest child was about 4 or 5mths old at the time so I put donating on the backburner until I was done nursing.
Now my youngest is 13mths old, she si still breastfeeding but we are weaning. I'm hoping in the next 2-3mths we will be done and I can start!

We moved to Oklahoma in July 2009. In August I contacted the International Assisted Reproduction Center via the internet.
Low and behold they got back to me pretty quickly but the email went to my spam box. About a month later I looked in my box and saw the email.
I quicly responded and got another reply the next day.
I had my first telephone interview with a nice rep from the company named Lindsay, on September 24, 2009. After about 15-20min of answering questions and then asking some, I was told I was a good candidate and my paperwork was being sent via email.
I received it later that day.
I will begin filling out my paperwork sometime this week. I am very excited to start this process and will be tracking my journey the entire way!