Good news quickly turned bad

Well, the good news quickly turned into bad news. As posted earlier, we received out beta on Friday and it was good, it almost tripled and we were so excited. I went to my brothers house on Sunday for a Memorial Day cookout and started bleeding. It wasn't very much at all and it stopped quickly. I was hoping everything would be OK but I called the doctor and they assured me that it could be a number of things and just go in for another beta on Tuesday since Monday was a holiday (why do things always happen on weekends and holidays).

I went in for my beta Tuesday morning, and it came back at 97 and I was told to stop all meds. Needless to say, we were devastated. We really did not expect that. I guess I am somewhat naive and I though once I was pregnant I was pregnant, that's how it always worked before. Ashlea says I don't think like an infertile person, she was excited but very reserved the whole time and I was on cloud 9, thinking that nothing could go wrong, we made it, we were pregnant.

We will both be fine, we will just pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and move on. We will give it one more try but I have to wait about 2 months before we can try again. This waiting is for the birds, it took us months to get to this point just to start over and wait again. Life goes on I guess.

Beta Results

We have now received the results of out beta/hCG test. We had our first test on 5/22 and it was 113 and our second test on 5/24 and it was 309. It more than doubled, which is what it is supposed to do so it is now official....WE ARE PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!!

We have our first ultrasound on 6/10 and get to hear the heartbeat and confirm that there is just one.

POSITIVE - So far

So, Friday I got off work early and ran some errands. I went to get the oil changed in my car and while I was waiting I called Ashlea just to pass the time. In the process of our conversation she tells me that if I want to take a home pregnancy test that it is fine but just not to tell her if it was negative. I told her that I was not going to take one because if she didn't hear anything from me she would know it was negative and that would not be good, she would have a terrible weekend and the days would drag until out blood test.

Well, she gave me permission and I couldn't resist. I stopped and picked up a test on the way home and would take it first thing when I got up Saturday morning. I took the test and could not believe when I saw the faintest of a second line.Since I am such an early bird, I had several hours to decide what and when to tell Ashlea. My initial thought was to just stick with our original plan and let her come over on Wednesday morning and we would take a test together. I just wanted her to be involved in the knowing and I didn't want to just call her and tell her. Then I decided that it was better for her to know and not have to worry for four more days even if she did just hear it on the phone. So I called her ans we talked for a couple minutes and I told her that I had taken the test and that it was positive. She was convinced that I was lying to her and just playing a joke. Come on now, do you really think I would do that. So once I convinced her that it was not a joke and I was not lying she said Oh, OK. Just OH, OK. It took a few minutes for it to sink in that I was pregnant and she was going to be a Mommy.

I say positive so far because we have not had our blood test yet so we don't know our numbers. We will both feel more confident once we have the final numbers and they are doubling as they should but we have taken a test the last three days and all have been positive so I am going with definitely pregnant.

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We are now on day 8 past our 3 day transfer. This is driving me crazy. I never knew how long this 2ww could be. I think Ashlea is doing fine, she says she is not as stressed with this transfer as she has been with the others. Only 5 days until Beta!

Transfer went great!

It has been such a busy weekend. I had the transfer done on Thursday and spent the day at Ashlea's house, we had graduation on Friday, a wedding on Saturday and everyone came over Sunday for Mothers Day. I am usually a couch potato so I am not used to all of this activity.

The important stuff: The transfer went great. As I mentioned before, Ashlea had 4 frozen embryos and they were going to thaw all four and transfer the best two. Ashlea agreed to this because she has always had about a 50% thaw rate so we thought we would only have two anyway. Well, all 4 survived the thaw. She started with two 7 cell and two 6 cell, after the thaw she has three 7 cell and one 6 cell and they chose the best two to transfer. Now we play the waiting game.

We will not be taking any home pregnancy test before the beta test. Ashlea is coming over the morning of the 22nd, I will have the blood test and we are going to do a HPT that morning.

So far in this journey, everything has gone better that we thought it would. We joke every time we have something done that once again, it has exceeded our expectations. Now we just need the most important part to exceed our expectations so it will all be worth while. Fingers are crossed, prayers are floating around everywhere, we just need that little bambino (or two) to stick.

Mom and Ashlea before the transfer

Ashlea - transfer day

Mom - transfer day

So close

Well, we had our appointment to check my uterine lining and my hormones. My hormones were good, right where they wanted them to be. I don't remember the number but they were very pleased and that was all I needed to know. My lining was 13.5mm and they said that was great. Ashlea's lining has never been above 9mm so we were both very pleased with the 13.5mm, that should be a nice, thick lining for implantation.

We have our transfer next Thursday, 5/9. Ashlea and Bill decided to thaw all four of the embryos and have the best two transferred. Ashlea has always had about a 50% thaw rate so we had thought all along that they probably wouldn't have any left anyway.

Keep your fingers crossed and say a little pray that all goes well with the transfer and we end up with a big fat positive!!