I emailed with Barb yesterday about questions I had regarding the calendar. I'm glad I did! The calendar doesn't say anything about Lupron after next week, but I will apparently be on it all the way up until N triggers and I start taking progesterone. Important to know. That's how it worked with my last protocol too, but I wouldn't have known without asking. Three Lupron injections down now, no issues at all. Last night was my last birth control pill too. Moving forward!
Morning Edition had a story this morning about fetal cells passing into the mother's bloodstream and staying there, for good. They found fetals cells living in the mother 40-50 years after the last pregnancy! Different theories about what the cells are doing-- helping or hurting-- and it seems the answer is probably a little of both (making some conditions worse, helping attack others).
Combine that with the theories of epigenetics-- that mothers/carriers play a role in how the genes in an embryo are expressed-- and it seems there's a blurrier line in gestational surrogacy than you might think at first glance. Although the baby is genetically distinct from the carrier, we will each permanently influence the other. Our influence-- both ways-- lasts far beyond nine months gestation. Interesting.
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