What's your number? BETA test #1

By this point, needles have become a close friend and enemy. I used to get light headed just thinking about giving blood. This morning when I walked into the lab for my first BETA test, I offered to draw it myself. That skinny vampire has nothing on the size of the 25 gauge needle that has got up close and personal with my back side every night for the past few weeks. POI's have quickly become a PIMA, literally!

Anyway, it looks like our first hCG number is 602! We are PREGNANT!
I believe they were aiming for over 100 and I am a bit of an over achiever so it is not a surprise that these little embryos are going full force. I started taking home tests since 4dp5dt and after about 10 minutes a faint line would show up which the nurses told me to ignore since it was out of the "testing window". So I finally got a digital test, checked in the with Dads to see if they wanted to know, and got a big fat "YES", so I was expecting a positive but not such high numbers. They were happy to report their joy as well as the expecting grandparents. What a great way to ring in the new year :-)

And of course the Googling began to see what other prego's numbers were with singleton and twin babies 10 days after a 5 day-embryo transfer. And it is looking good for twins (eek!) but we will have to wait until the Ultrasound on the 17th to really know how many babies are in there.

Typically you want your hCG levels to double every 48-72 hours, so I am curios to see what our numbers are at the next blood draw in 2 days. Here's hoping!


Weight: 156
Symptoms: baseline nasuea that gets better with light snacking.
Cravings: fresh fruit

Baby/babies: 2-3 weeks, about the size of a poppy seed

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