6w3d

We had our 6w3d ultrasound today. We saw a heartbeat!!!! The heartbeat measured 110 bpm. It was so tiny but I was able to see it flickering away on the screen. According to the tech's measurements the baby is measuring 5w6d. I was concerned about the difference in the dates... but my Dr isn't. She said she isn't worried at all. We have growth and a heartbeat so she is ecstatic. I asked her if my risk of miscarriage goes down now and she said most definitely yes. She said before seeing a heartbeat a normal person's risk of miscarriage is 30%. After seeing the heartbeat it drops to 5%. So please please please let me be in the 95% group and have a healthy baby!!


And now the pictures...

Less than 2 days to go!

Title says it all.... less than 2 days until I go for my ultrasound. I have had a very hard time keeping my eyes open today. At least I get to sleep in a little bit on Friday.

Other than that I have just been passing the time. Brianna had dance last night so that kept me busy (their costumes arrived for tap class for the annual recital! so cute!). I was going to go to the HOA meeting tonight but I forgot to buy some Black dress shoes for Brianna Monday night when we went shopping (for her Orchestra concert tomorrow night) so now we have to go shopping again. Hmmm maybe that's prego brain kicking in!!

So see not much to blog about lately. LOL. Oh I have had 2 baby girl dreams the last 2 nights! The first one was about twin baby girls. I had named them Georgia and Dehlila. Last night it was one baby girl and I had named her Leigha. Wonder if my subconscious will throw any more name suggestions out there!!

5w5d

Just a quick update to say everything seems ok. The spotting stopped Friday night. Thankfully!! I was so scared on Friday. I've been trying to take it easy all weekend and have been drinking lots of water! I am definitely looking forward to my ultrasound on Friday! I am praying hard we see the heartbeat and that this little one has grown by leaps and bounds!

Scare today

Well I had a scare that freaked me out this morning. I had some brown spotting (course brown is the best to have if you are going to have any). With my history I immediately got upset.

I did go into the Dr office today for an early ultrasound. We saw only 1 Gestational sac. The sac was measuring about 5w1d (I am 5w3d) but she said not to worry about that because if you move it a hair it can show that you are 5w5d. The tech said she might have seen the start of the yolk sac but she wouldn't swear to it. (I was really hoping to see the yolk sac).

So basically we know there is 1 Gestational sac. Cervix is closed so spotting wasn't coming from that. Other than that.... we have to wait till next Friday.

Please send tons of Prayers my way that our baby continues to grow and sticks around!!

5w1d

As the title says... I am 5w1d today. Nothing much going on at all... just trying to pass the time until my ultrasound at 6w3d. I keep telling myself everyday too that I am pregnant!! Sometime my symptoms get so light that I almost can't tell they are there and I start to worry! Course I am pretty tired most of the time. I just have to remember I didn't have symptoms every single day when I was pregnant with Brianna all those years ago either!!

Any suggestions for how to pass the time?!

3rd Beta 19dpo

According to the nurse... my 3rd beta is great! Today's number is 1038. Doubling time is right at 48.5 hours. She said no more beta's and they will see me on the 26th for my first ultrasound! I am going to have to find something to keep myself busy for the next 12 days!!!!

I have to admit, I am really excited now! How can I not be? I've haven't seen numbers like these before!

2nd Beta

IS GOOD!!!!

My second beta today came in at 523. That means that since the first one it took 45.32 hrs to double. They like to see it under 48 hours so mine is good!!! I'm quite relieved!

Oh and I scheduled my first ultrasound! I will be 6w3d and it's on 3/26/2010 at 11am!!!

I wasn't nervous about the beta at first... course when she didn't call back at 1pm like she did Wednesday THEN I started getting nervous! LOL Just goes to show me doesn't it!

I do have to go back on Sunday but I expect good numbers!

1st Beta

I went for my first beta draw today. I just got the call back a little while ago. At 15dpo my beta is 251! Nice strong number so I am happy!!! I go back on Friday and Sunday for my other draws.

According to beta base these are the averages for a singleton pregnancy. You can see my number is higher than the median 15dpo number.

DPO	Median HCG Level	Lowest HCG Level Reported	Highest HCG Level Reported	Number of women reporting a number for this day
10	16	1	245	64
11	24	2	196	258
12	37	2	294	568
13	62	3	575	1075
14	101	2	2088	2201
15	136	2	2088	2825
16	201	4	9000	3061
17	292	5	9000	3151
18	406	7	10529	2997
19	602	16	12318	2842

For Twin pregnancies: I'm just below the Median for 15dpo

DPO	Median HCG Level	Lowest HCG Level Reported	Highest HCG Level Reported	Number of women reporting a number for this day
10	30	1	309	38
11	40	3	309	159
12	66	5	679	284
13	124	10	1823	527
14	207	17	1823	1130
15	266	19	2550	1457
16	396	33	3567	1530
17	582	54	6983	1502
18	803	67	6983	1396
19	1173	86	12979	1284

I was thinking at first it was a singleton... but it still could be twins. Guess we will have to wait and see at the first ultrasound!!!

4w0d

I am exactly 4 weeks 0 days today. And no, I didn't test. I'm happy with the line from Monday so I don't think I will test anymore. I'm trying to stay as relaxed as possibly this time. No need to obsess right? LOL. Besides, tomorrow morning I go in for my blood test and I should have my HCG number by afternoon. That is more important than a line on a test anyways! I know they are probably going to want me to have another one done on Friday. Honestly I don't know if I want to... I start stressing out about the numbers than. Maybe if my numbers are high enough tomorrow she will let me forgo it (doubtful though with my prior history but I can dream).

I will say this... I am so tired today!! I had a slight bought of queasiness throughout the day but I don't mind that at all at this point!

Just passing time

Well I stuck to my guns. I tested on Saturday and then waited till today to test again. I don't think I'm going to test again unless it's just for fun.

Here is Saturday's test

Here is Today's (Monday's test)
I can see a definite difference in the lines so I feel a lot more comfortable. My blood test is on Wednesday (10th) so I am praying for a nice large number.

Other than that not a whole lot going on. We went to the park on Saturday since it was a beautiful sunny day. I took a few pictures...

The 2WW (2 week wait)

Ok in a normal month the 2ww (2 week wait) is pretty agonizing for a women that has been trying to get pregnant for a long time. See we tend to know exactly when we ovulate and exactly when our period is supposed to come. Some of even love to torture ourselves more and will test early; sometimes ever day and other sometimes every other day. Yes HPTs (home pregnancy tests) can detect very small amounts of HCG. I've had some pick up when my blood test came back at 13. I am definitely one of those women who have a POAS habit (pee on a stick). With all of the miscarriages I've had I like to compare the lines on the test from one day to the next. If it was dark one day and got a lot lighter in following days, I knew it was over. We like to see them continually get darker!!! Ideally one should only test every other day because the Dr's like to see the hormone (HCG) double every 48 hours. If you test daily and your doubling rate isn't 24 hours then you won't see much of a change... that only leads to stress (Trust me!!!).

Ok I'm rambling... I know I haven't even updated in the last couple days. Honestly there wasn't a whole lot to talk about. I was obsessing though in my own kind of way. I decided to test out my trigger... I started with a faint line at 5dpo and watched it get lighter. Well yesterday (9dpo - which is 9 days past ovulation... which in my case is also 6 days past a 3day transfer)... I decided to test again... this is what I got.




If you don't have POAS goggles it might be hard to see the really faint line on the 9dpo test... Here is one I took a little closer...
See it's really faint... Now you know why we obsess! Could this really be real? Is it an Evap (a false +)... I didn't want to publish yesterday until I had confirmed what I was really seeing. yes that means I tested again today (10dpo now).

I would say this is quite a bit darker than yesterday. I didn't even have to turn the test different ways in order to make sure it showed up on the camer. So yes I am Pregnant!!! My beta test
is scheduled for Wednesday March 10th. (Beta test = blood test to detect the amount of HCG or pregnancy hormone that is in the blood). I am praying for a large number!! I am also praying very hard that the embryologist picked 2 very healthy embryo's and that my body allows this pregnancy to continue full term. The thought of actually being able to hold our baby in my arms is bringing tears to my eyes!!

I will probably test again tomorrow. After that I will TRY to do it only every other day until the test line is darker than the control line. LOL.