Beta #2 Results...

After a very productive morning, I called in to get the results of my beta.

Beta - 193
Progesterone - 18.6

Cindy, the nurse practitioner, was very perky with her congratulations and instructions. I think I was in a daze when she was telling me the numbers because she said "Hello" a few times before I answered. She said that the beta more than doubled so that was great and the progesterone looked great for 4 weeks. I told her briefly about my freaking out on Sunday about my progesterone levels and thanked her for reassuring me that they were ok. We scheduled my first visit and ultrasound for April 2nd which will put me at a little over 7 weeks. I can't believe that I have to wait until April but then again I can't believe that April is a little over 2 weeks away. It will be great to see the baby and a heartbeat. We will be going down to see our folks that weekend so maybe we will have a nice (surprise) gift to give them.


I entered my betas into babymed.com's hcg calculator to see what doubling level looked like and where I stood with my betas. It makes me feel better that I'm more average or slightly higher than average than I thought.

Blood Test aka Beta #1 Results...

70.


The nurse said it was good for 14 dpo. Not bad. Not excellent. But in the range they like to see them between 60 and 100. I know that each woman is different, each pregnancy is different, but I still worry and wonder if that 70 is good enough. I go back in tomorrow for my next draw tomorrow morning and will not get the results until Monday.

Hopefully the beta results will have doubled.

So this is what it's supposed to look like...

So I woke up decided to test. I'm not sure what I really expected but this is what I was greeted with (sorry in advance for the crappy pic)...



Umm...(squint)

Wait...(rub eyes)

Is that a positive? STFU!?!...I must be fucking delusional right now. I have somehow wished a positive pregnancy test into existence and now I don't know what reality is. Is it really positive? Let's go ask the hubs.

(Walking calmly to bed to wake up Torin)

Me: Take a look at this. (hands pregnancy test handle first)
Torin: Umm...I don't know what it's supposed to look like...
Me: (I point at side of test)
Torin: Wait I thought you were going to wait until your test date or you were late? It looks like a faint plus sign. What does this mean?
Me: (So I didn't imagine it...) Today is my test day and I'm taking another test.
Torin: What? You just took one.
Me: (Running off to bathroom for the EPT we bought to use up his medical reimbursement.)

So I dipped the test in the urine I so cleverly saved and picked it up and got in bed with Torin while the test developed. We looked over at two minutes and it looked a little something like this...



So this is what a positive pregnancy test is supposed to look like.

Well Torin is not convinced, he told me to call my doc to get an appointment ASAP. So being the good wife I called the advice line and talked to the nurse. It was pretty awkward to call them but they said to call them whenever I turn up pregnant. Pregnant. (sigh) Anyhow, they ordered a blood test stat and I plan to stop by the lab before work. I should have the results tomorrow.