Our clinic

Our clinic (pre CCRM) shut down "indefinitely." Evidently there was a class action lawsuit filed in July because of mislabeling of embryos. Wow. While there is not anything yet in the news about embryos being mixed up during transfers, I imagine that there must be more of that going on around the country than I personally care to think about. Certainly there should be checks in place, but I hope this does not lead to regulation making ART more expensive or unattainable for families.

Thankfully there is no doubt that Freddie is 100% our genetic material, being conceived in glorious Maine without clinical assistance. And I suppose it is a good thing we're not fretting over frozen embryos stored there waiting to be transferred to my uterus, but all in all it does make me wonder about the level of care and attention of the entire process during our nearly 2 years of treatment.

Since I am on the topic of my eggs, Charlie's sperm, and such, please know that we chat almost daily about further expanding our family. The plan is to actively try on our own in January with the help of ovulation predictor kits. If after six months we have not had any luck, I'll head in to talk it over with Dr. M. In my 2 postpartum check ups I'd say he was our biggest cheerleader and didn't in any way try to hide his feelings that we should commence Operation UmBaBay Part Deux right away.

I imagine we may try a visit to Maine before worrying about examining embryo labels in 2010. We fully expect to visit CCRM sometime in 2010 but would be pleasantly surprised if lobster tails and chow-dah do the trick.