Final Beta

We had our final beta on Monday the 11th and it was perfect!  It was....






                               7649!!!



We are definitely pregnant and expected a very strong baby in there!  We have our first ultrasound this coming Monday and are hoping to see a heartbeat.  It still might be a little early so we are trying to not get our hopes up if we don't see one then.  YEAH for our little snowflake wanting to stick around. :)

Official

I had my official beta per the clinic today and it was 333 which is PERFECT!!  WE ARE PREGNANT!!!  I am on day 10 but was 9.50dpt when I had my blood drawn.  I don't have another blood draw until the following week but the clinic agreed to let us have another done two days later.  I am more obsessed with seeing this number double the way it needs to.  It is comforting to see it go up since we have to wait for our ultrasound.  Ultrasound is in a few weeks...

Addicted

Any surrogate will tell you that you become obsessed and addicted to seeing that line get darker and darker.  I couldn't help but constantly taking tests to see it get darker and be reassured that the baby was growing and doing okay.  It is hard not to.

My last test I took

On Friday I also had my blood drawn to see what the levels were, they generally want the numbers to double every 48 hours.  My numbers were at 85 on Friday morning which meant we were right on track.  I don't have my official beta per the clinics orders until Monday morning.  We have dinner with J, T and the kids.  We also get to meet Todd's mom for the first time!  I am so excited!

Sign

Tuesday morning I peed on the stick and anticipated it to be negative again since it was still too early.  To my surprise there was another line and this time it was darker than Monday's test.  I was really starting to freak out and do the happy dance.  I sent it to my surro friends again and we picked it apart to determine that there was indeed a second line starting.  I wanted to wait til it was darker to show J and T again just to avoid them getting discouraged.  J was texting me by 7 am though asking if I had tested yet, it is kind of hard to hold this huge news in too.  I sent her the picture and she said she could see it.  I told her I would test again later that night just to make sure it was getting darker.  I was technically only 3.50 days past transfer when we got this line, so super early to know.

Since I wasn't at work on Tuesday the soonest I could get my blood levels checked were on Wednesday to see what was going on.  I was thinking they would be about the same as my first journey and be maybe 15 or so.  They ended up being  at 26 on 4.50dpt.  I was pretty excited that we had some really good news here!  It worked and this little "snowflake" stuck around!!!

3 weeks and 2 days along

Home

I thought I would have waited to start testing at home but Monday morning I figured why not.  I knew it would be negative anyways and it would be fun to see when I did start seeing a line.  To my surprise though I saw a line, I sent it to a few surro friends who have the squinter abilities and they could see it as well.  I was freaking out and thinking, Oh my gosh!  This is happening and SOOO early.  I wasn't going to say anything to J and T til I had a darker line and then I couldn't keep it in.  I told them that they were going to be parents.  It was so cute to hear their reactions!

I work for a lab and as soon as I got to work I had my blood drawn to see what my levels were.  My levels came back as negative though.  It was really strange because this was definitely a line and I wasn't just making it up in my head.  Maybe it is the start of something there....