Beta#1: 4\/14\/2009, 11am = 1049
\nBeta#2: 4\/16\/2009, 9am = 1811<\/p>\n
I spent the last two days thinking, if it could just be at least 2000, then I can relax, then I can know it’s okay. My hands were shaking all day today, waiting for the phone call. Despite the fact that I was feeling a little nauseated and feeling some definite pregnancy cramps\/ligament stretching, I still was nervous. What if it’s bad news? I could almost hear the nurse’s voice in my head, saying she was sorry. I was mostly fine until about 1pm, and when there was still no call my mind went into overdrive. Not pretty.<\/p>\n
So for all of you waiting anxiously, sorry, but I didn’t get my voicemail until 3pm when I went on my break. And then I didn’t really have time to do much besides update twitter.<\/p>\n
The nurse opened the voicemail with, “I just wanted to say, congratulations! I am just so happy for you.” So I figured it wasn’t bad news. She continued to say that my blood level was 1811. I was disappointed. Not upset, but just… disappointed. It’s not GREAT, you know? I want GREAT, like Devin’s numbers all were. I want something really really reassuring. I didn’t quite get it.<\/p>\n
BUT. The nurse continued to say that they look for doubling times between 2 and 3 days, and I’m right on track for 3, so they are perfectly happy with it and she would see us at the ultrasound next Wednesday.<\/p>\n
And then I thought, well duh. Did I really expect it to suddenly take off? I knew from the first beta that this pregnancy has a slower doubling time. Still within the normal range, but the lower end. So this number falls right in line with the HPTs – see, they weren’t wrong… this one definitely<\/i> was rising much, much slower than my first pregnancy. This is a slow starter, apparently.<\/p>\n
Tonight I calculated my doubling time online: 58.39 hours (according to betabase). It’s not too far off the average on the singleton betabase chart<\/a>. But then look at the breakdown of the doubling time at these levels<\/a>. Notice where 58 hours falls? Right smack in the median group. Wow, that makes me feel good. Normal is good. Median is good.<\/p>\n Even the spotting is becoming a little bit more normal in my mind. I’ve heard so many stories about people who spotted through their pregnancy, sometimes even heavier than what I’m dealing with. I expect it now. I figure if my beta is still going up, and I’ve been spotting for a week, as long as it doesn’t get worse then it’s probably just one of those things… the things that only exist to drive me insane<\/i>.<\/p>\n So now I’m just holding my breath until the ultrasound. I just want to know that something is alive in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beta#1: 4\/14\/2009, 11am = 1049 Beta#2: 4\/16\/2009, 9am = 1811 I spent the last two days thinking, if it could just be at least 2000, then I can relax, then I can know it’s okay. My hands were shaking all day today, waiting for the phone call. Despite the fact that I was feeling a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91,87,107,113],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beta","tag-fet1","tag-preg-ectopic","tag-spotting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}