Yes, I realize that it a redundant statement. I'm sorry for not updating earlier. I got my beta result late today, at 2:30 and then I had to obsessively surf the internet to research. So, my beta from this morning was 131. In an absolutely ideal scenario, the number would have doubled exactly, but alas, I'm not ideal in this area, never have been! This works out to a doubling rate of 61 hours. An acceptable doubling rate is 48-72 hours so I'm well in the range, but it just didn't knock anyone's socks off. Because it wasn't a spectacular increase, I have to go back Monday morning for another test. I hope and pray that it takes off! The nurse assured me that this wasn't bad, but they're just not ready to stop testing me yet. She did say that Dr. D is taking me off the shots (yay!) and putting me on vaginal progesterone suppositories (boo!) and she assured me that he would not have done that if he was concerned so that makes me feel better.
The reason that I made the deja vu comment is that in my previous pregnancy, my numbers were slow to rise so the beta limbo is very familiar to me. Last time, it was 35 and then only rose to 56 which was a much worse doubling rate of 75 hours. I have no idea why my OB didn't test me again that time, but I do know that my beta levels eventually reached at least 84,000 (the day of the first ultrasound) so obviously they took off at some point. Maybe I'm just a slow starter. I just hope this pregnancy has a much more positive result!! We're already off to a much better start, so I'm feeling good and not freaking out. We're cautiously ecstatic!
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You are soon going to have to change your url to "jennifersfertilityjourney" ;-)
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