And just like that......Friday September 10th we got the news we had been waiting for since we started this journey. PREGNANT! My 1st Beta Hcg level was drawn at 7 days post transfer and was 22 which is low, but anything greater than 5 is considered pregnant so that was a win. I sat and sobbed as she tried to explain to me my next steps and it was honestly all a blur. I was completely overwhelmed with emotion. Despite feeling so much different this time and in my heart wanting to believe this was really it, I had mentally talked myself into thinking it would be another NO. So when it was a YES I fell apart. I could not wait to talk to my Intended Momma. She was so nervous about getting the results too, that she took a sleeping pill and with the time difference between here and Spain it was so late and she fell asleep. I was going crazy just wanting to know that she knew. The next morning she responded and I was so excited to learn my message was the first one she saw. She was so happy! But understands we have a long way to go.
My next levels were at 10 days post transfer and my nerves were feeling the pressure. We needed those levels to at least double by then. So that Monday I went back to the lab to get blood drawn again and waited, then I got the second most exciting call.... levels are 160 and rising nicely. Still pregnant! A third level in a week would then be the determining factor.
Today was the day...3rd Beta levels. This time it was an email saying "good news" and "congratulations" my level was 6.939. I felt such a weight lifted as I was simultaneously getting texts from my advisor Wendy and my Intended Momma I just couldn't feel more relieved in that moment. We are really doing this.
We are 5 weeks pregnant as of yesterday and although I know we have a ways to go until we are "safe", and lets be honest I am a NICU nurse so I know there really truly isn't a magic number that makes you "safe" because things can happen at anytime. But I am enjoying these moments and am hopeful and happy and just feeling so, so blessed. Every morning that I wake up feeling nauseous, every 2o minute trip to the bathroom and every sore or tender boobie moment I thank God for. Now the constipation issue we are currently battling thanks to all the vitamins I could do with out.....seriously, but every other feel like crap, exhausted moment, I'm thankful. This little embaby stuck and snuggled right on in. The little bean is growing everyday and I am just so excited for what this journey holds for us. I officially have a wombmate for what I hope to be the next 8ish months.
Next on the to do list is our first ultrasound at 6 weeks (next Monday) which is to check for the gestational sack and yolk sack. And then another ultrasound at 8 weeks to detect and confirm fetal heartbeat.
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