Second Beta Test Results

[spryng]

Warning: Pregnancy related. Feel free to skip.




314 or 334 – I don’t remember because I was too relieved to hear it was over 300!

Ideally, the beta number should double every 48-72 hours. The second test was 45 hours after the first, so a near double is perfect. Strong, still probably not twins.

Now I have an ultrasound scheduled for the end of February and that’s SO FAR. I’m tempted to keep peeing on sticks to reassure myself, but at some point I have to just trust my body. So. Breathe.

No symptoms, really, aside from occasionally being walloped by exhaustion. Not surprising, because it’s still only, what, 18 DPO? Jeez, it feels like so much longer.

Passing time by looking at dates. I’ll be 8 weeks beginning of March, 12 the beginning of April – which makes me want to announce on April 1st, but that is probably not a good idea. Internet’s estimation for due date is October 10th.

This all feels like it's happening to someone else. I wonder when it will actually sink in that this is happening. Until the first u/s? Until I start showing? Until the baby actually shows up? Never? How long did it take you?


(cross-posted from my other blog)

Comments

[kerrickadrian.livejournal.com]

Till Ez was about two months old. As an outside baby, I mean. :) I still sometimes feel surreal about it.

R had a chart made up to show the growth of the fetus as measured in worldwide species of frogs. You know, since most charts use fruits and vegetables and he couldn't think about food... and loves frogs...

[spryng.livejournal.com]

OMG frogs! That's adorable! We've been using an app that has less common animals, which so far is fun. First one was waterbear, so I'm already sold.

[ladibug21.livejournal.com]

I felt like the first three weeks after I found out were a complete circus in my head. One minute completely ecstatic, the next terrified beyond belief, and mostly still unable to believe it was really happening. Occasionally I'd forget for an hour. Around 6 weeks was when I got slammed into with exhaustion and all the other symptoms.

Kiddo is 2 and I still sometimes cannot believe it worked.

[spryng.livejournal.com]

Hahah - I occasionally forget for an hour too. :)
Still no symptoms, but it's only week 5. I expect that all to change next week.

[jadesymb.livejournal.com]

For me it was a process. It happened slowly. I remember distinctly sitting in the cafe at work having lunch at about, 30 weeks? and the baby was moving around and rolling around and I was just sitting there, by myself eating. And suddenly it was like, OMG. I'm having a baby. And I love him so much. I'm so excited!

And from that point on, it was real, and didn't go away.

I did announce my pregnancy with Oliver on April 1st. No joke. I rather enjoyed it. (I waited until we had seen the heart beating in a U/S and that everything was going well and I was out of the first tri, or almost out of the first tri, due to a miscarriage I'd had before my pregnancy with him). That said, I'd done what you did, and told LJ and some people, but I waited to tell Facebook until April 1st. :D

My biggest pregnancy symptom was being tired. I was so tired during the first trimester. I was struggling to stay awake at work.

[spryng.livejournal.com]

How was the reaction to the April 1st announcement? Did anybody go "haha, didn't fool me"? Or get angry?

[jadesymb.livejournal.com]

I hate April Fools day, which is a known thing about me. So I had said right out front, THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE.

But it might be fun to do it and then see how people react, if you like that sort of thing.

No one was angry or anything. But I'd had a miscarriage a few months back that was public knowledge as well.

[spryng.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that's an idea. I guess I had assumed there would be no disclaimer, just see how many people got confused. :) But that's probably not very nice of me.

[xotiffany.livejournal.com]

I'm so very happy for you two! I kept peeing on my stash of sticks when I first got a positive and finally caved and bought a couple digital. Those made me feel really good. ;)

Hope you have access to lots of nice cool pools this Summer. =P

[spryng.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I peed on a lot of sticks, for sure, but thankfully the blood test cured me of wanting to buy a digital. I'm still sorely tempted, tho... this wait before the ultrasound is hard.

I think I will just have to live inside this summer. I really hoped we wouldn't still be in the desert, but looks like I'll get to enjoy 110+ degree days again.

[spreadsothin.livejournal.com]

As soon as I got a positive I was ecstatic, and then every milestone made it feel more real- the heartbeat, the visual, the improved visual, the movement, the little fingers tickling, the birth. And then a few days after she was born, she was sleeping in her room, and I was in the living room watching TV with my love- and I suddenly had the jolting realization that I had forgotten, just for a moment, that there was a baby.

But it's still surreal, the foreverness, sometimes.

My early symptoms were a lack of patience.

[spryng.livejournal.com]

Haha! My symptoms exactly! :)

[koyaaniisqatsi.livejournal.com]

I hope the end of Feb comes by quickly for you! Your first scan, how exciting!

I don't have children, but I imagine it'd sink in for me when the baby starts kicking.

[spryng.livejournal.com]

I keep telling myself maybe around the first ultrasound. We'll just have to see. :)