#IVF update - my second HCG blood level ("beta") is back! It is excellent news. It rose even higher than they hoped it would in the last 4 days. . . A good sign for an early pregnancy is a HCG level that doubles every 48 hours (or faster). Mine, on 14dp5dt, is 1957.9. This means that since 4 days ago (when it was 221), it doubled every 30.5 hours! That is crazy fast, and a good sign that things in there are proceeding well. I am relieved and happy. . . The hard part is that now that my beta is over 1000, I don't get any more blood tests. They simply scheduled my first OB ultrasound, which is in 15 days, on 11/19. That ultrasound (I will be over 6 weeks pregnant by then, nearly 7 weeks actually) will hopefully show an intrauterine gestational sac, and a tiny embryo with measurable cardiac activity. Hoping it does! Until then, I just have to wait around, and hope it is all still going well in there. . . I still am exhausted and feel queasy. I nap every day and still feel so tired. But it is a good sign, I am told! I continue to take the estrogen pills, progesterone injections, and progesterone vaginal inserts, consistently, until I reach 10 weeks pregnant, to sustain the hormones until the placenta can take over. . . #invitrofertilization #ivf #ivfjourney #ivfwarrior #invitro #ivfgotthis #ivficsi #icsi #pgta #pgs #ivfpgs #ivfpgta #infertilitysucks #infertilityjourney #infertilitywarrior #unexplainedinfertility #ivfsisters #noshameininfertility #pgtnormals #pgsnormal #frozenembryotransfer #fet #ivfpregnancy #fetpregnancy #embryo #ivfsuccess #ivfearlypregnancy #earlypregnancy #gillishreskid