Dreams of being a mommy again!

Ever since I was a little girl, I always wanted kids. I used to pretend that my room was an apartment and I was a mommy to my cabbage patch dolls. I would walk them in strollers and fasten them in little plastic car seats in the back seat of my moms car.

I met my husband, Nik, when I was 19 years old and we have been together ever since! We had a little boy, Trey, back in 2003. He was a natural conception. I always knew that my second child would be a little girl. I planned on adopting so immediately after Trey was born, Nik had a vasectomy. Fast-forward 10 years later and we now find ourselves getting ready to move to Salinas, Ecuador. I am now 32 years old and the burning desire to become a mommy to that little girl has been more and more prevalent. Especially since this past year, I have had 4 different girlfriends get pregnant, all with little girls. One of my dear friends even picked the same name I wanted to name my future daughter, Ava.

The adoption process here in Ecuador can take 3-5 years after you become a resident. I cannot wait that long so we have chosen to go with in vitro fertilization. Since it is very expensive in USA, I choose to come to Ecuador.  I spent countless hours online researching the best doctors who can do the treatment with gender selection. Dr. Pablo Valencia is the doctor that I choose to go with. He had a great website and gave me his personal email. He is bilingual and answered all my millions of questions thru email. Once I booked the appointment we made arrangements to come to Ecuador, to close on our new beach houses then 2 weeks later, fly to Quito to come meet Dr. Pablo Valencia.

When I shared with my Ecuador friends that  I was coming here to see Dr. Valencia, everyone says that he is very famous here. He has gotten lots of couples pregnant and almost everyone I told knew of him! This was such a great sign. It really made me feel that all my research had paid off!

So this morning was my first appointment. I was totally impressed with his nice office and there were so many other couples in the waiting area. Once we met Dr. Valencia he was so nice. He took his time explaining the procedure and made sure that I felt completely comfortable and all my questions had been answered.

Here is the front of Dr Valencia's office: 

Dr. Pablo explained how they do genetic testing on 5 different chromosomes to ensure you will have a healthy embryo with no down syndrome or health defects. This is also where they discover the gender. XX is girl so we are looking for quite a few of those!

Here is Dr. Pablo Valencia:

Nik had his blood taken today to test for disease and normal stuff like that. 

This is completely normal, and same thing they do when a female is pregnant! We will get all his results back in 2 days. We were both prescribed to take an antibiotic for the next 3 days to be sure there won't be any bacteria in our bodies. I was prescribed prenatal vitamins to be taken every day throughout the pregnancy!

Now we will just wait for the 2nd day of my monthly cycle then I will go back to the doctors office for my blood testing.

This is a brief synopsis of what happened up until now. As we go back to the doctors office I will keep everyone informed of our journey!