HCG Levels

On Friday, June 17th I went into my Dr's office to get my first blood draw for a baseline on my HCG levels.  I had to leave work to get there at 9, it took about .5 seconds for my draw so I was back to work within a 1/2 hour!  I got my results back that day...a 54.  My stomach sank a bit...54?  Wow that is low I thought to myself!  The nurse assured me that I was barely 4 weeks (4 weeks exactly based on my last missed period) that this was a fine number and was consistant with an early pregnancy.  Well of course my anxiety took over, I scoured the web trying to find someone else or some chart that would show at 4 weeks my level was "average".  I found one source and said "thats it, i can't stress" everywhere I found gave such a large range of normal and stressed that the actual number wasn't that important, it just needed to double within 48 hours.  So I went into ThedaClark on Sunday, on my way to my parents to celebrate father's day to get my second draw.  That one took a little bit longer as I had to weirdly register in the ER and then wait for a lab person to come draw my blood (and it took her two stabs!! owie :( ).  I had to call the on-call nurse for the results, which Im sure she loved since its a non-emergency and it was Sunday, and it was father's day!  The nurse told me my numbers came back at 133, she didn't know my beginning so I told her 54 and she seemed satisfied and said that is was good they doubled.  133 still seems low to me but I found a graph to help my anxiety, but cant figure out how to post it on here as a PDF file!

So I guess Im just on the "low" end of the scale, but as long as they are doubling I can't let myself freak out...doubling is good!  Doubling is what matters!

My next step is my 6 week ultrasound on Friday, July 1st...Im praying that I will be able to hear a strong healthy heartbeat at that appt.  During my last pregnancy I found out I was miscarring at about 8 weeks, but the baby had stopped growing before reaching 6 so I think if everything turns out well at my ultrasound and shows that this baby is doing well at 6 weeks a ton of stress will be lifted!

4 Weeks!

Well we offically hit the 4 week mark!  Crazy to think that not to long ago this was the earliest you could find our you were pregnant with Home Pregnancy tests, they've come a long way, ha!  I went into the Doctors today to get my blood drawn to get a quant check.  I hopefully will find out my levels this afternoon, then will check those against Sunday's draw and make sure they are correctly increasing.  I'm feeling pretty good...Ive been going to sleep at like 8 pm everynight which in the summer is kinda sad since its not even dark out yet!  Kinda tender bb's but not as bad as the last pregnancy, maybe thats still to come!  I've also been feeling a bit nauseaus, mostly at night which is ok by me, which I didn't have at all during the last pregnancy so I'm hoping thats a positive sign!  No actually puking yet which can stay that way but i want all symptoms that I can have :)


Baby Center update - Right now your baby is an embryo the size of a poppy seed, consisting of two layers: the epiblast and the hypoblast, from which all of her organs and body parts will develop.

Its definitly a Big Fat Positive!!

Im so excited! but soooo sooo nervous!  I've already called the doctor and because of my previous miscarriage I get to see them a bit earlier which hopefully will calm my nerves!  I go in on Friday (06/17) for a blood test to get a baseline on my horomone levels then I will get another test on Sunday (06/19) to make sure my levels are doubling (they don't consider a pregnancy "viable" if your numbers don't double).  Then I have a 6 week ultrasound scheduled this time (before I had to wait until 8 weeks...and that time I had to scream and beg because I knew I was miscarrying so I had one at like 7 weeks).  I'm crossing fingers, toes, everything I can that this pregnancy is it!

Its a........BFP!!!!

Soooo excited! I started testing this month at 9 DPO...got a BFN...tested @ 10 DPO and got a nasty indent...then this mornings test (11 dpo) i swore was just an indent again but it started to get a little pink after a bit. I posted the tests on babycenter.com to get tweaked and got a lot of "looks like a BFP" to me! Im going to test again tomorrow morning, ill be 12 DPO and use FMU so im hoping for some more distinguishable lines!!