Since we are able to get the blood work done locally we don't need to make the 6 hour round trip drive, thankfully! That gets very exhausting after so many times. The clinic sent over the physician's orders to my OB's Lab stating they would need same day results and the lab said it was possible. It wasn't until I got to my appointment after they took my blood that they informed me that only one of the tests would come back same day because the other had to be sent out for testing. Ugh! There were two test: beta hcg hormone level and progesterone hormone level. An HCG level of less than 5 means no pregnancy and anything above 25 means pregnant. To recap, mine was 286!!! Progesterone is a hormone that is produced by the ovaries and surrogate will take this to help their uterus prepare for being pregnant. When the surrogate's body recognizes the placed embryos and forms a placenta her body with begin to produce her own progesterone and she will no longer need to take the medication (the end of the first trimester).
The clinic called today with our progesterone level results. They like to see anything over 10 for the first few weeks of pregnancy. It is soooooo weird to think I am actually 4-5 weeks pregnant already when we literally just did the transfer 2 weeks ago. I was wondering how the due date worked so I found a website to help out a little. My estimated due date through this site would be July 1st 2013 for a singleton and June 9th 2013 for Twins!!! Twins! Twins! Twins! ;) My progesterone level came back at 10.39 so we are right on track and doing great!!!
Can't wait for tomorrow to have my levels checked again for peace of mind! Anxious but not as anxious as Tuesday. At least we know we have a POSITIVE, which I am overwhelmingly happy about!!!!! I will let you know how tomorrow goes!
Love,
Go Chels go! <3
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