--- title: Southern California Reproductive Center's Blog | Jenn and Peter (2) description: We're Jenn and Peter. We met online. We went to Disneyland. We fell in love. We adopted a cocker spaniel. And we have now been trying to get pregnant since the U.S. got caught tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone. Peter loves random facts. Jenn loves bulldogs. We both want to be parents. This is our blog about our bumpy journey to (fingers crossed) parenthood. So much for the old fashioned way. Thanks for reading. We hope it helps. (2) --- [![Southern California Reproductive Center](https://www.scrcivf.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/scrc-logo-rgb-color.png)](https://www.scrcivf.com) Search for: Search Button **[800-600-9112](tel:800-600-9112)** - [About](https://www.scrcivf.com/about-our-center/) - [Fertility Specialists](https://www.scrcivf.com/about-our-center/fertility-specialists/) - reproductive endocrinologist - [Mark W. 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We met online. We went to Disneyland. We fell in love. We adopted a cocker spaniel. And we have now been trying to get pregnant since the U.S. got caught tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone. Peter loves random facts. Jenn loves bulldogs. We both want to be parents. This is our blog about our bumpy journey to (fingers crossed) parenthood. So much for the old fashioned way. Thanks for reading. We hope it helps. ### Recent Posts [![](https://blog.scrcivf.com/hubfs/Blog/IVF_embryo_transfer_day.jpg)](https://blog.scrcivf.com/embryo-transfer-day) ## [Embryo Transfer Day](https://blog.scrcivf.com/embryo-transfer-day) Published on July 14, 2016 by [Jenn and Peter](https://blog.scrcivf.com/author/jenn-and-peter) **I couldn't sleep. I was anxious, excited and nervous. ** And then the morning of the [embryo transfer](https://www.scrcivf.com/treatment-options/assisted-reproductive-technologies/ivf-et/) I had to drink a lot of water in advance. So then I had to pee. And my bladder is already weak. So there's that. [Read More](https://blog.scrcivf.com/embryo-transfer-day) [![](https://blog.scrcivf.com/hubfs/Blog/post_IVF_egg_retrieval_fertilization.jpg)](https://blog.scrcivf.com/post-egg-retrieval) ## [Post-Egg Retrieval: Fertilization](https://blog.scrcivf.com/post-egg-retrieval) Published on July 7, 2016 by [Jenn and Peter](https://blog.scrcivf.com/author/jenn-and-peter) [The doctor](https://www.scrcivf.com/about-our-center/fertility-specialists/) decided to perform [ICSI](https://www.scrcivf.com/treatment-options/assisted-reproductive-technologies/icsi/) (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) on half of the eggs and let the rest try and “naturally" meet with Peter's sperm. Peter felt confident about this split (he said with his charm and natural charisma they'd do just fine), but I would have liked the doctor to perform ICSI on every last one of them. [Read More](https://blog.scrcivf.com/post-egg-retrieval) [![](https://blog.scrcivf.com/hubfs/Blog/IVF_egg_donor_egg_retrieval_.jpg)](https://blog.scrcivf.com/retrieval-day) ## [Retrieval Day](https://blog.scrcivf.com/retrieval-day) Published on June 30, 2016 by [Jenn and Peter](https://blog.scrcivf.com/author/jenn-and-peter) **Jenn:** I was thinking at best the doctor would [retrieve fourteen eggs](https://blog.scrcivf.com/the-night-before). And don't get me wrong, I would have been pleased with fourteen. But not all fertilize or make it to day five so the more the merrier. Well, lo and behold (as I was shopping at Living Spaces) I got the anticipated call, told my sales guy to "hold that thought" and I ran to a quiet place to answer.  [Read More](https://blog.scrcivf.com/retrieval-day) [![](https://blog.scrcivf.com/hubfs/Blog/the_night_before_the_egg_retrieval.jpg)](https://blog.scrcivf.com/the-night-before) ## [The Night Before](https://blog.scrcivf.com/the-night-before) Published on June 16, 2016 by [Jenn and Peter](https://blog.scrcivf.com/author/jenn-and-peter) **Jenn:** It's late and I should have been asleep hours ago, but I'm so anxious and excited that I am still wide awake staring at the ceiling. And I know that I shouldn't count my chickens before they're hatched, but **tomorrow is the big day**. I'm wondering how many eggs we'll find tomorrow morning. It's kind of like the night before Easter in a weird, emotional sort of [fertility treatment](https://www.scrcivf.com/treatment-options/) kind of way. [Read More](https://blog.scrcivf.com/the-night-before) [![](https://blog.scrcivf.com/hubfs/Blog/hallelujah.jpg)](https://blog.scrcivf.com/hallelujah) ## [Hallelujah!](https://blog.scrcivf.com/hallelujah) Published on June 9, 2016 by [Jenn and Peter](https://blog.scrcivf.com/author/jenn-and-peter) **Peter:** I feel like a preacher in the middle of a sermon on a sweltering Sunday somewhere south of Savannah. That's the feeling that's overcome us today. Our donor is ready to go! [Read More](https://blog.scrcivf.com/hallelujah) [![](https://blog.scrcivf.com/hubfs/Blog/Fertility_treatment_emotional_struggles.jpg)](https://blog.scrcivf.com/go-in) ## [Go In](https://blog.scrcivf.com/go-in) Published on June 2, 2016 by [Jenn and Peter](https://blog.scrcivf.com/author/jenn-and-peter) You are going to yell and scream and cry and then laugh and then get chills and then feel excitement and fear like you've never felt in your life and then cry again and that will all repeat. **That means that you are going through [fertility treatment](https://www.scrcivf.com/treatment-options/).** [Read More](https://blog.scrcivf.com/go-in) [![](https://blog.scrcivf.com/hubfs/Blog/fertility_injections.jpg)](https://blog.scrcivf.com/shooting-up) ## [Shooting Up](https://blog.scrcivf.com/shooting-up) Published on May 19, 2016 by [Jenn and Peter](https://blog.scrcivf.com/author/jenn-and-peter) "..shots, shots shots shots, EVERYBODY!" No, this isn't the LMFAO song featuring Lil Jon. **It's the fertility treatment anthem**. And no, we aren't at Tao Beach at the Venetian. We're at the Roxbury. No, not that Roxbury.  [Read More](https://blog.scrcivf.com/shooting-up) [![](https://blog.scrcivf.com/hubfs/Blog/egg_donation_or_online_dating.jpg)](https://blog.scrcivf.com/online-dating-or-egg-donors) ## [Online Dating, or Egg Donors?](https://blog.scrcivf.com/online-dating-or-egg-donors) Published on May 5, 2016 by [Jenn and Peter](https://blog.scrcivf.com/author/jenn-and-peter) **Jenn: ** Once we decided to go with an egg donor we had to find one. [Dr. G](https://www.scrcivf.com/doctors/shahin-ghadir/) and his staff recommended an agency called [Growing Generations](https://www.growinggenerations.com/) so we went home and I immediately got on my computer and logged in. This is where it got kind of strange for me. Am I really going to a website to pick out the woman whose eggs I'm going to be using to have a baby?! [Read More](https://blog.scrcivf.com/online-dating-or-egg-donors) [![](https://blog.scrcivf.com/hubfs/Blog/donations_are_greatly_appreciated.gif)](https://blog.scrcivf.com/donations-are-greatly-appreciated) ## [Donations Are Greatly Appreciated](https://blog.scrcivf.com/donations-are-greatly-appreciated) Published on April 28, 2016 by [Jenn and Peter](https://blog.scrcivf.com/author/jenn-and-peter) Sometimes this feels like an unrelenting Groundhog Day of injections, blood work and disappointment. And yet, we fight on like Marine recruits during the Crucible in basic training. Like Diana Nyad swimming from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida. We have to keep going. 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