We can stop betas because I’m so badass

Beta #1: 564 Beta #2: 1224 Progesterone: 29.47 Progesterone: 61.4 Apparently, I don’t even have to have a third beta on Monday! Because Monday is my first OB ultrasound!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m hyperventilating. No, just kidding. I’m crying my eyes out. True story. I took a photo of me five weeks pregnant:…

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Beta beta bo beta—RESULTS!

Between the comments I received on my Facebook page, and the discussions with several friends, I learned a little more about beta numbers. In that, it isn’t as important as I thought. A mom I know had her first beta the same day as mine and hers was a little…

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I did my beta draw this morning

The pee sticks have seemed to come to a standstill. I’m not complaining, because it just means Seaweed and Kelp are digging in deep and ramping up that HCG. This was 12 days past transfer. The line on the FRER is now darker than the control line (read: my embryos…

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Pregnant infertile

I have been officially pregnant for 6 days. By “officially” I mean self-diagnosed according to embarrassing amounts of home pregnancy tests.  My beta is two days away; my clinic has no record of a pregnancy. Still, at 10dpt my head was drooping into my coffee, and I took a three-hour…

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Both doubt and hope at the same time

So I have a confession to make. Yesterday morning, right before I went to start writing my ZOMG! I’M PREGNANT! post, I had a moment of doubt creep into my head. Remembering the first IVF cycle, when I proudly showed off my pee sticks to the Internet, only to have…

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