Setting Off on a New Journey

Three-plus years ago, I wrote a long post about our hope to one day become parents—and how, in our case, it wouldn't happen the old-fashioned way:

If anything, we are now more convinced than ever that it would be too risky for me to try to carry a child. And that means—if the IVF goes well and we have some promising embryos to freeze—we will be looking to a surrogate. And that's a whole other minefield that we are not going to try to navigate just yet.

It has taken a long time to reach this place, but we're finally here.

Not at the edge of a minefield, really—however apt that metaphor seemed at the time.

Instead I'd say that we've arrived at the trailhead.

And although we've got sturdy shoes and a trusty compass, this path has no map.

We'll be figuring it out as we go.