And now we wait some more...

Well, after 9000 miles and 44 hours of travel time (we stopped in Europe for the night to break up the trip), we arrived in Delhi last night around midnight local time.  I managed to get us business class seats at the last minute and thank God for that.  The apartment we rented is in Greater Kailash which is ten minutes from the ultrasound facilities, the hospital and Dr Shivani's office - so, very convenient.  We have daily housekeeping and anything we want is a text message away.  Steve is thrilled that we can have a massage therapist here at a moment's notice for about $12 an hour.  Everything from DVD's to fresh meat from the butcher shop - all delivered - the service here is such a treat for so little money.  There is an open air market across the street that has everything from pharmacies to clothing to groceries to Pizza Hut.  So, we are set there.

Now, onto Steve's reaction to Delhi and what you endure for all these treats at such a modest price.  As all of us who have been to India know - that first flirt with reality here is a bitter dose.  He is having that experience today.  While I have been here twice, this is his first trip.  He is simply speechless at the level of poverty and unsanitary conditions - and we are in 'posh' Greater Kailash!  I am somewhat less affected this time - which is disturbing in and of itself.  How quickly we condition ourselves.

All in all, we are comfortable and as the title suggests - now we wait.  We had the wonderful experience today of visiting Dr Shivani and Dr Jolly (the sonologist) at Dr Jolly's office - there we met our (incredibly shy) surrogate for a routine scan.  Having the experience of watching your children on ultrasound, hearing the heartbeats - simply amazing.  I never thought we would make it here in time, but we did - and it looks like with time to spare.  We are 36 weeks 1 day and Dr Shivani says she will not schedule a c-section before 37 weeks 2 days - so we have potentially 8 days of additional waiting.  Both babies are approximately 5.5 lbs (2.5kg) as of today's scan - so, likely we are going to have 6 lb twins!  I don't know of another set of Indian surrogacy twins that have gone to 37 weeks - someone correct me if I am wrong.  This is such great news...nice, big, healthy babies.  We are convinced more now than ever that at least one baby is a boy - have thought so all along, but almost certain of it now.  Just saying...noone disclosed a thing...just a gut feeling.  The only person who knows the sex of the babies is the sonologist, Dr Jolly - Dr Shivani doesn't even know...all against Indian law...I know this is driving several of our friends nuts.

So, that is it for now - stay tuned...

Terry & Steve