That first email

"Hi, are you still looking for embryos?"

That was the first line in an email that I received on January 11, 2014 from the woman who would eventually donate 4 perfect embryos to us (along with her husband)!

(I know in my last post I said things changed on my birthday on January 9th.  They did- I had a dream overnight that I would be finding out about our baby very soon.  Nothing specific happened in the dream, I just had a peace of mind that it would happen any day now.  So when I got the email, I was shocked... and yet not.)

The email from K and T (the potential donors) went on to say that she had found our profile on Miracles Waiting.  She hadn't created a profile for them as she didn't want to have to turn down couples who may email them.  They wanted to be able to reach out to the couples whose profiles spoke to them.  Something about our profile stuck out to them and made them contact us!

Still not sure how I concentrated on work or anything else for the week after that. Just like in middle school waiting for Matt to call (pre-texting days, dating myself here), I was keeping an eye on the phone all day... and email... and texts.  Luckily, K was just as anxious/excited as I was, so the communication was pretty constant.  The best part: talking to K was like talking to an old friend.  There was the nervousness due to the importance of our conversations, but also the complete ease with talking with her.  It just felt so meant to be, but after years of heartache from trying to start our family, I kept waiting for a catch.  Then after a few days it came.

"There are other couples we're talking to."