I'm a Bad Blogger

Wow, I can't believe that I've neglected this blog for more than a whole year. My last post was about my infertility struggles and moving on to IVF. Needless to say, a lot has happened in the past year. Peter and I are still trying for a child, our process has just changed a little. We had met with an IVF specialist last October and they were supposed to be working on making a probe(to pick the non CF related genes) for us. It turned out that Peter had two cystic fibrosis related mutations, meaning that there wouldn't be any non affected genes to take out for the probe. We were told that our only other option for IVF would be donor eggs. Since getting pregnant with donor eggs was not a for sure thing, we decided to step back for a bit and weigh our options. During this time I went to a family friends wedding where I got to talking with a gentleman who had adopted his son. Peter and I had been talking previously about adoption, but after speaking with this man and hearing all of the wonderful things that he had to say, it solidified it for us. We were going to go the adoption route. I guess I had never really realized what a long process adoption in itself can be. In November and December 2014, we met with a few adoption agencies to see what the best fit for us would be. We picked our agency and got to work on the adoption application. We submitted our application in March of this year and are currently on the waitlist for the home study process to begin. Wish us luck. P.S. I'm going to start documenting our adoption journey on here, so stay posted. -Michelle