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!