Introduction

This is my first blog in a long time, outside of the blogs I write to track the updates I do on the "family" site.

I plan to update this as news changes, as things happen, mainly to document for E.M. and I's family-to-be (our children to come) what we went through to get them.

We are a loving and committed couple who are beginning a family. We are currently filling out paperwork for a sperm bank in Washington State and after that goes through we plan to start trying for a baby in May of this year.

We are thrilled at the ease in which the process seems to be (obtaining sperm from this bank). We have looked at many other banks and they seem so complicated, this one doesn't seem to be that way. We printed the paper work this afternoon and began to fill it out before E.M. headed to work.

We were origionally going to go with a free-AI donor vs a bank but after meeting with multiple men who were "willing" we felt it was best (mainly most responsible and safe) to simply purchase the sperm from a bank.

I (Jess) will be carrying the child and we have been charting my ovulation (not temping) and I will start using OPK's this month so I have a better idea in May when to ask the bank to ship us our "frozen possibilities".

More to come. :)