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.

I've come a long way...

...since this post.

I won't say when this decision was made but we have made the decision to start trying to have a baby.

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone