Results are in…

Today I went in for me BETA blood work which would tell us if the IVF procedure worked or didn’t.

IT WORKED! We are officially pregnant! It is very early but with the bloodwork today it shows that my hormones and HCG are exactly where they should be or even better than they should be (whatever that means)! We are excited and extremely cautious! We do not know if it is 1 baby or more than 1 and won’t for a few weeks. 🙂

Today began with me driving across town 1st thing in the morning to get my blood drawn in the office. I then had to do the hardest thing, I had to ask that they wait to call me until after lunch. You see I had an important work meeting and I didn’t want to know positive or negative until that was over. (Also I am controlling and wanted to control the exact time I found out so that for once, my husband and I could find out together!)

My meeting went well and surprisingly I only thought about it like 4 times. Now I know many people are thinking (any many have asked) if I “cheated” by taking an at home test. We chose not to. We haven’t in the past and I didn’t want a false positive or negative, so I waited. Trust me, during the meeting break it took everything in me not to call. (It was hard!) However, once my meeting was over I had 1 thing on my mind, get home before the call time!

I drove as safely as possible and arrived 7 minutes early. My son and husband were home when the nurse called. She asked how I was doing and I said good. Politely I asked how she was doing and she said “I’m doing great because I have some good news for you!” My heart started beating again! We ARE pregnant! She told me my exact numbers for HCG, Progesterone, and Estrogen (all of which were higher than they were looking for… which is good). Then we scheduled another blood draw for Monday. I will have at least 2 more blood draws but possibly 3 before an ultrasound is scheduled.

Once we found out, we went to lunch. We called our parents on the way to lunch but then decided to sit on the news for a little while (sorry)! We enjoyed knowing our secret for a little while (even if it was only an hour or so). We text a few friends and then enjoyed the afternoon together. Even with being open about the blog, I knew I would want a little time just for us (which is understandable hopefully).

With as excited, happy, and joyful as we are, there is caution within us as well. You see getting pregnant from IVF hasn’t been the struggle. The struggle has been keeping the pregnancy. Our “sweet spot” is the 9-10 week mark. Today I am a little over 4 weeks so we have 5-6 weeks to go before I will breathe more. Seeing the ultrasound at 7 weeks will help, but to be honest, I have never made it to the 7 week “scheduled” ultrasound. There has always been a need to have an ultrasound earlier than that. This is the caution. We want to not have any event (bleeding, low numbers, etc) happen to cause us to have to rush in like we have in the past.

For now we are happy, excited, thankful and yet we are cautious, nervous, and waiting. Luckily the next 3(ish) weeks of work are easy going and shouldn’t provide stress. I will only be doing things that we feel isn’t difficult physically (not a lot of stairs, no marathons- yeah right me run… haha, and no picking up our son- that one hurts my heart!). I will still be around at church, work and participating in as much as I can, but we definitely have our “kid gloves” on within this critical time.

Thank you all for being on this journey! I am thankful that for today, our journey isn’t over! This blog has been a wonderful support system for us and we are so thankful to be able to share JOY with you all today! As i have promised before, I will be posting about the previous 4 transfers soon. (It’s hard to relive.) Please stay along this journey with us! We now have even more to look forward to and write about!

Pearl of Wisdom: Babies are gifts! No matter what the age (or gestational age), they are all gifts!

Request: Pray for attachment and an easy few weeks. As we celebrate each week it is important to continue to pray for this baby (or babies) that are growing within!

Love and Pearls, ~Me