March 7, 2017 • Andre & Cameron

Embryo Glue, Intralipid Therapy and Endometrial Scratch. WHAT?!

Surrogacy
March 7, 2017June 1, 2020

Last week we found out about Embryo Glue, Intralipid Therapy and Endometrial Scratch. We are members of a closed Facebook group formed by our surrogacy agency – Canadian Fertility Consulting, and read a post from a fellow Australian woman who is engaging in surrogacy to have a child. A few of her embryo transfers have failed and she is now left with a couple of healthy embryos which she is worried that she may lose them to failed transfers as well. It is very stressful. She highlighted that now the IVF clinic, CReATe Fertility Clinic (which happens to be the same as the one we chose to work with) is suggesting to her that she should consider embryo glue and intralipid therapy to increase the chances of getting the embryos to ‘stick’ to the uterus. After a few comments on her post from various people, we found out that there is another treatment called endometrial scratch. What are these things?!

The scar that will never go away

Thoughts
March 7, 2017June 1, 2020

I am certain that I have been permanently scarred (emotionally) by the episode with my parents when I came out to them. It was hard and difficult to understand the rejection that I felt and it still affects me till this day. Last night, I dreamt that my parents wanted Cam and I dead (which I know will never happen in real life) because dream-parents felt I was no use to the world and they would rather get rid of the problem (us) than to live with it. I was terribly upset in my dream as I got Cam involved and I was so very lost. We did flee at one point to prevent ourselves from getting harmed. When I woke, I felt drained but happy that it was just a dream and that Cam was still there beside me.