four weeks is the unofficial standard minimum time for any progress in this game.

finally after a month of silence my Embryologist sends:

“Hi Gavin,

We saw your donor yesterday and she is great. She is on the pill at the moment and we’re waiting for some blood test.
Please can you find out from the surrogate where about in her cycle she is and if she is on the pill?
I will then start synchronizing the cycles accordingly.

Kind regards,”

yay. start synchronising. that is all i read. no idea how long that all takes. will be quizzing Embryologist on Monday.

how long does it take to ‘come off’ the pill? I wonder. and do you need to wait till all effect of the pill taking are gone, like a full cycle? do the surrogate and the donor need to go through one full cycle together? what about those injections my surrogate is dreading, when do those come into play.?

and of course when do my boys need to be perfect? I does help motivate and keep focus when exercising. happily reduced my body’s age to 41 from 46 last year. Graham keeps saying the ‘G’ word (grandchildren).
Would be something to live to meet them and love them and let them have had a grandfather. They are not getting a mother, so it is the least I can do… 🙂

This child is getting some pretty impressive grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and godparents.

But a grandchild … now wouldn’t that be something? Dare to dream – even if it never comes true, still dream it, because how else will the world know what to give you?