Friday, May 1, 2009

Beta # 2 Is In

Without further ado, it's 439. 439. Wow. That's a doubling time of 37 hours, nicely ahead of the appropriate 48 hour doubling time. Here are our values graphed onto averages for a singleton pregnancy. Hmmm.



We're extremely encouraged and starting to get at least somewhat excited at this point. So many more hurdles to jump over, but so far so fabulous.

We've already had a small "emergency" call from the clinic in Denver. They called back on Wednesday late afternoon and of course I thought they were calling to tell me there'd been a dreadful mistake and they'd given me someone else's numbers, mine were negative, terribly sorry and so on......... It all still seems too good to be true, hence my apprehension. However, the call was in fact made to tell me I had to get a shot of Rhogam Immune Globulin within 72 hours of my bleed on Tuesday night. My blood type is O negative, so my blood must not mix with that of the fetus (it's not actually a fetus yet, still an embryo), so they wanted to take the necessary precautions and give me this protective shot. I went to my OB/GYN for it.

The next big milestone will be the ultrasound in two and a half weeks, where they'll be looking for a heartbeat. It'll be on May 18th or 19th. In the meantime, I'll need to go in for estrogen and progesterone checks to make sure the levels are good, as well as CBCs (complete blood counts) to check my blood platelets since I'm taking a Heparin derivative (Lovenox) for my blood disorder. I'll need my platelets checked once a month from now on.

So it's sparkly for us tonight. Mine's a sparkly water, but I might be so decadent as to have a slice of lemon in it.

12 comments:

  1. Darlings, let me be the first to comment that this is the best news I've had in a long time. Dad and I are both ecstatic. Keep up the good work.
    Love you both. G

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  2. Unfortunately I think the early hatcher looks a lot like me.
    Apart from that, well, what can I say! Except XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    and, as they said in the War, Keep Calm and Carry On

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  3. YAHOO!! i am jumping out of my skin!!!

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  4. Nice beta #!!!!! Twins maybe? ;-)

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  5. A more than doubling beta - sounds like everything is going really well so far! Had to chuckle about your lemon comment - I stare at my hot water with the slice of lemon in it, my preferred drink of choice while cycling, and think to myself that this is about as exciting as it will get for me - so it's funny you think the same :). I hope the time passes quickly to your u/s.

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  6. Sounding fabulous!

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  7. Congratulations on an amazing second beta!!! Things are looking very good! I hope the u/s 2ww goes by as fast as possible. Can't wait to hear an update!

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  8. Mach weiter so, ich bin ganz zittrig

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  9. Annisca, Teachrun here. Is your blood disorder the Protein S deficiency or the MTHFR? I ask because I noticed that they're doing CBCs on you and wonder if my clinic should be doing those on me.

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  10. Congratulations! Sounds good! Good luck with the Rhogam shot and with the wait for the u/s!

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  11. Great news babe, keeping our fingers crossed that this is the start of more great news. Thinking about you.XX

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  12. all our best love and hope you manage life as well as you are up till now. Thinking very much of you and your minute offspring.

    Caroline & Wolfgang

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