Cautious Drum Roll.....

Yep, this is from this morning. I also have my first beta from this morning, a day early. 180 at 13DPO or 8dp5dt! That's a nice, strong number for 13DPO. Impressive.

Now, we're not jumping up and down just yet. The reason we have this information a day early is because I started bleeding bright red last night at about 11.30pm. My fear of POAS was immediately replaced with need to know and so I POAS. Two lines came up in a few seconds. So now we had a BFP (elated) and bright red blood (terrified). After a few minutes going back and forth about what to do - it was 12.30am by then - we decided this warranted a call to the nurse on call in Denver (at least it was only 10.30pm there). We were actually put through to a doctor, who told us to do a progesterone shot immediately in addition to the morning one and to go in this morning to check progesterone, estrogen and pregnancy hormone level, the test I was supposed to have tomorrow. All the numbers look fantastic. For those in the know, E2 was 867 and P4 was 59. I'm going in again on Friday to see if the beta has doubled as it should in 48 hours, or at least increased by 66%. Then and only then will we know if this might be a viable pregnancy. The doctor and nurses have told us since last night that bleeding can be very normal with IVF and especially with an FET. And I'm relieved to report that the bleeding has subsided for now. I've been told to take it very easy, not lift anything and rest. Thank goodness I work from home and can actually do that.

It's a shame the joy over a lovely BFP has been taken from us by this very frightening bleeding episode, but we'll take it all for a healthy pregnancy and baby. Having gone through what we've gone through to get here, we already know that we'll be nervous every single day of this pregnancy, if indeed it's viable.

Now we hold our breath until Friday.