Darrell & Sharyn

I went in this morning for my third and final Blood beta draw. Boy was today a busy day at the hospital. I arrived by 8:00 and there were already like 20 people ahead of me. I think I was there for over an hour.

I was spoiled last week with the beta results being returned fairly quick. 12:30 was the latest I had gotten them. Today, the clock past 1, then 2, then 3, then 4. I was starting to get worried because usually they only call later when they have bad news. Amy finally called around 4:45.

Beta level of 3306. This is a doubling time just over 44 hours. Once again, another awesome number. I was relieved.

So much for trying not to stress to much. 🙂

We scheduled our first ultrasound. We will get to see our little sprout on Monday, October 15 at 11am. I cannot wait. 11 more days!

I am pretty sure that there is just one in there, but nothing is for certain until the ultrasound. We should be able to see sprout’s heartbeat at the appointment.

I am still a little nervous knowing that a lot can happen in the next 7 weeks. We won’t be out of the woods until Sprout is born, but a few steps at a time.

Darrell is still apprehensive and isn’t quite as excited because he doesn’t want to get attached only to have something happen again. We haven’t even talked about nicknames yet. I have started calling baby Sprout. We shall see if it sticks for the pregnancy or not.

Our next milestone is the heartbeat. We will feel a little better knowing there is a heartbeat.

I love it when the results come back really fast. 🙂 I had my blood taken at 9am this morning and Amy called with my results by 10:30 am. Yeah!!!

So my second beta number is 266. Which is a doubling time of 28.57 hours. That is really good since they are looking for it to double every 48 hours.

I am really excited that our numbers are doing so good. They are really strong numbers for a singleton. I just want a healthy baby.

I go back in for another beta next Thursday 10/4 to see how things are doing. After that, we have about 10 days until our ultrasound. The ultrasound will probably be on 10/15. I won’t know for sure until we get our results next week.

So that means, theoretically, we will be able to see our new little sprout in 18 days. We are back to spending our time in approximately two week periods. But it will all be worth it in the end.