The Results Are In!

Okay, I'm officially the worst blogger ever...I can't believe it took me this long to post! So, here's what went down over the past week. Laura went for blood testing at 8:30am last Monday. Thanks to my wonderful friend Emily, who kindly distracted me for the whole day, I didn't pull ALL of my hair out during the wait for results. Since the clinic told us results would be in around noon, Emily and I had champagne glasses ready to go. Well, here is how they sat for four LOOOONG hours.

Even though I was pretty confident we'd get a positive result after all the home pregnancy tests, waiting for the call was still incredibly suspenseful. Laura and I both made a few harrassing phone calls and FINALLY (around 4pm) the call came in. The nice thing was that Laura got to be the one to call me with the news. We were looking for numbers anywhere between 5-426 for a good result and we got a whopping 659! So, what does this mean? WE'RE PREGNANT!!

WOOT WOOT!! As is with everything in the surrogacy world, just as soon as you think you've made progress, you end up waiting...AGAIN. So, our levels were good but the doctors require another blood test two days later to make sure the HCG (what the blood test is for) levels are climbing. In 48hrs, the number should at least come close to doubling in order to confirm a viable pregnancy (they said above 1050, I believe). Laura went for testing again at 8:30am Wednesday morning. And again, we waited...and waited...and waited......this time the clinic never called!! Though I'm normally a pretty relaxed person, I'll tell you I was NOT happy. Laura's clinic kept saying the results were faxed to the Brigham and the Brigham kept saying they didn't have them but nobody would take the extra step to figure out where the disconnect was. It was BEYOND frustrating knowing that the results were in and that we just weren't getting them because somebody wasn't doing their job. I kept saying to Laura "It's not like we're waiting for the results of a MATH test...this is a PREGNANCY TEST from an INFERTILITY clinic! It doesn't get much more suspenseful than that!" Talk about patient torture. AGHH! Laura was a lot more relaxed about it than I was because she was confident that the results were fine. I guess I was too but I was still so angry. It's hard to explain. I guess I just felt so powerless in a situation where I already feel powerless enough. Anyways, that's how Wednesday went. But we did finally get the results on Thursday and were more than happy with the news. Laura's levels had climbed to 1545-MORE than double! So, in conclusion, things are looking very promising and we are all very excited! Brynlee just can't wait to share her princess throne with a new baby brother or sister. :)

And here's the really exciting part. Laura's first ultrasound will be a week from today-June 4th. The nurse said this ultrasound won't show too much-they only do it to make sure the pregnancy is in the uterus and is not a "tubal pregnancy". But she also said that we should be able to tell whether or not there are two babies in there! Umm...not sure how that translates into "won't show much" but as you can imagine, I'm not missing this ultrasound for the world! Unfortunately, Thom can't make this trip so my mom is going to come out to GA with me. We'll be flying out Sunday afternoon and coming home on Monday evening-a whirlwind trip for sure but WELL worth it! Hopefully next time you hear from me I'll have some more exciting news! As always, thanks for reading and for all of your support. More updates soon! :)