Positive!

At the risk of jinxing ourselves (really, do you never get over expectations of the worst, even when you've had the best of luck?), we've got a positive beta.  303 at 17 days past ET.  Given that we thawed embryos that were frozen on day 1 and transferred them on day 3 (of thaw), I'm not even sure how many DPO you'd say that is.  I think it's a reasonable beta. And the nurse said it was, so I'm going with it.

Just to fill in the gaps since the last post.  4 embryos survived thaw on Wednesday, July 18.  On the day of transfer, we had one 7-cell, one 6-cell and two 4-cells.  We transferred the two best on Friday, July 20. (The other two didn't make it to re-freeze so this became our only shot with the embryos from my sister's eggs.)

Since then:  daily PIO shots and Delestrogen shots every 3rd day continued.  Sister-in-law, 2 nephews (5 1/2 and 2 1/2 years old), brother-in-law, mother-in-law at my house; then off to the beach with said in-laws for the first half of last week and then swapped in-laws for my parents and my sister's family the second half of last week (with one day overlap on Wednesday for all 4 nephews to play together! E had a blast with her 4 boy cousins!); and back home.  Exhausting.  But good.  And now, the best news.

So, here we are.  Happy, of course.  But, with early loss experience I think you never really can let yourself be completely excited even with a good beta.  And even once you've seen a heartbeat - which won't be for a while.  So, we'll try to take it one day at a time.

And then there's genetic abnormalities.  And I think especially once you've had that experience you definitely don't count your chicks (so to speak) until you know for sure there are no abnormalities.  My sister's eggs were just 37 years old so they definitely have less of a chance of being abnormal than mine, but nevertheless, we'll be waiting until we're sure everything is normal until we tell anybody (if we get that far.)  We haven't really talked about whether we'll do CVS again.  It went so well for us last time that I'm kind of inclined to do it again.  It gave us such a sense of reassurance to know that there were no genetic abnormalities, even though it was really just the trisomies that we were most worried about.  The doctor we used last time has a clinical miscarriage rate of something like 1 in 400 so the risks of CVS don't really give me much pause.  But, we'll see what we feel like when we get to that decision point.

Anyhow, there we are.  2nd beta on Wednesday.  The waiting game never ends, does it?  But I am very grateful for this opportunity at a second stroke of luck.  Hopefully, it sticks.  If it doesn't, well, we'll deal with that then, right?