Baby Barry!
We got fantastic news when I went in for my pregnancy test on July 8th, it was POSITIVE!
I had been waiting on pins and needles all morning long waiting for that phone call and when it finally came I was really nervous. Chris was convinced that I was pregnant but I knew that the odds were not in our favor so I was trying not to get my hopes up. Luckily all those fears were erased when Judy said "I have good news, you're pregnant!"
Judy, Dr. McKenzie's nurse, said that my HCG level was 119 and that was a good result because they were looking for an HCG level over 50. I had to go back in that Friday, July 10th for more blood work to verify that my HCG level had doubled. Ideally it should double about every 2 days during early pregnancy.
On Friday, my HCG level had risen to 360 and my estrogen level was 919 which meant I was able to stop wearing one of the two estrogen patches I had been wearing. They told me to come back on Tuesday for additonal blood work to check my estrogen level again.
On Tuesday, my estrogen level had risen to 1018 which meant I was able to remove the last estrogen patch and just continue my daily progesterone injections. I will be on progesterone in oil shots until my 10th week of pregnancy.
Chris has to give me the daily injections of progesterone. He is becoming quite good at intramuscular injections!
We have our first ultrasound appointment July 22nd at which point I will be 6 weeks pregnant.
We are so excited!
Saturday, July 18, 2009
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