My third beta came back at 57,—-.
After I heard the nurse say, "Fifty-seven-thousand…" I kind of tuned out and didn’t hear the rest of what she was saying.
I’m assuming at most there are only two in there, right? Since we only put back two embryos, that would make sense, right??
RIGHT?! She shrieks maniacally at the computer screen.
BeBop and I go in Saturday for our first ultrasound, so I guess I’ll get a better idea of what’s going on In There then.
BeBop asked me this morning how I’m feeling.
"Uh, fine, I guess. Just super, super tired."
"Well, you’d know, instinctively, if things weren’t going well, right?" he asked.
To say I became unhinged is somewhat of an understatement.
"HOW THE FRICK WOULD I KNOW?" I yelled. "I’ve never been pregnant before, how the hell would I know what’s going on?? I’ve never carried a living creature around inside me before, I have no idea what feels like what," I continued, making less and less sense as I carried on.
I think the stress of our upcoming scan is starting to get to me. I’m cracking under the pressure.
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In other news, my poor sister is still sick and my Mom is still shirking her motherly duties.
The day I heard my sister was put on bed rest, I scrambled onto Babies R Us and Target and bought tons of stuff from her registry. Tons of stuff I had no idea existed and that I would have no clue what to do with. Like milk storage bags (although their title is fairly self-explanatory, I guess…), a microwave steam sterilizer, a Supreme Snuggle Nest with Incline (HEY! Can I get one of those, whatever it is?) and some other crap.
Did the prospect of maybe needing to know what all this stuff is make me all nervous and twitchy? Why, yes. Did the idea of one day possibly even needing to own all of this stuff, AND USE IT, send me into somewhat of a panic? Yep. And did that send me scurrying to the kitchen for a stale Mrs. Field’s cookie that we got from placing an order with Office Depot sometime last quarter? How did you know?
I also ordered my sister a special relaxation CD made especially for women on bed rest. I was on the phone with her when it arrived, and can only imagine the smirk on my (very conservative) brother-in-law’s face when he saw the package from Earth Mama Angel Baby. "It must be from your sister," I heard him say as soon as he saw the return address.
She had to start taking blood pressure medication and had a terrible reaction to it at first. I’m planning to go down there in mid-May, and I won’t be surprised if her baby makes an early appearance, so we’ll see what happens.
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Anyhoopers, my Mom regaled me with tales of the Sedona Life Vessel. "It’s not a pod!" she kept correcting me. (And the official story is that no Peyote was involved, but I’m dubious.)
"But you sit in a machine that’s like a tanning booth, right?" I asked. "But you’re all enclosed or ensconced or whatever? Sounds like a pod to me…"
Apparently she sat in this vessel for an hour the first day, two hours the second and yep! you guessed it, THREE hours the third day. While in this pod (excuse me, VESSEL), flashing lights beamed down on her and it had a slight vibration. There may have also been noise or music involved but I was having a hard time paying attention after a few minutes of her story.
I still can’t quite grasp the overall impact of the life vessel, but it’s supposed to cure anything that ails you.
"Oh! Well then your sinuses must be much better," I helpfully suggested.
"You know what? You’re right! I hadn’t thought much about it," she said.
Hmmmm….doesn’t sound like a ringing endorsement if you ask me. If you were cured of everything that ails you, wouldn’t you want to at least feel healthier?
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And? She’s totally torturing my sister about her choice of non-organic, non-hemp made materials for the baby’s room. My sister is more into the high-end, designer baby decorations. My Mom, on the other hand, prefers an all-natural approach, as you might remember from The Infamous Baby File.
My Mom’s been calling her twelve times a day, warning her about the imminent danger from ‘out-gassing’ from the mattresses my sister has for the crib. Not to mention how her choice of non-organic sheets and bumpers and GASP! some polyester, fleece-like blankets will mean certain and immediate death for the poor little tyke.
My Mom kept telling my sister how she went to Babes R Us and even though my sister corrected her forty-thousand times, she kept insisting she was horrified by all the polyester clothing at Babes R Us. Which sounds much more like a strip club than a baby store, so at least my sister and I got a good laugh out of that one.
And for some reason, my Mom was also against the idea of a glider rocking chair thing for nursing.
"But you have Papa’s rocking chair," she told my sister. "Why don’t you just use that?"
Ummmm…probably because it’s from our family’s 1800s farmhouse in the Northeast, designed for a 5’3", 140-pound man to sit in while smoking his pipe and contemplating the impending secession of Southern states and wondering if that could lead to an actual Civil War and is conceivably the most uncomfortable piece of furniture ever fashioned from a piece of wood.
Maybe that’s why.
Oy. It’s never a dull moment around here.
OMG – I totally knew it was a dualit. I have one too!! I also noticed the Kitchen Aid mixer tucked in the corner. Just so you know, my dualit lives next to one of my Kitchen Aid mixers!!! How totally cool is that!!
Ok. 57,000 – that is a serious beta. If you don’t have twins in there I am going to have to go to spend a few days in a pod to recover!
Thrilled for you, Watson. I cannot wait for Saturday’s scan!
Whoa. Can’t wait to hear about the scan!!!
57K – Wow! How many dpt are you now? (Or if you feel comfortable putting it into weeks that would be cool too). Looking forward to hearing about your scan!
Couldn’t one divide and make twins….well, it would be triplet in there then?!!
That is a superb number!
holy hot damn – 57,000!! congrats!!
57,000. Can I get that in small non sequential bills? I have a down payment to put on a house, and that’s a good number.
Um, yeah.
Also, I’m so with your sister on the high end hoity stuff, our glider was the best thing ever, as is our stroller, I want to run off to Vegas and marry our stroller. Oooh, get her an itzbeen, my friend got me one and LOOOOOOOOVE. But take back the steam sterilizer. It’s a pain in the ass. The dishwasher does the same job, and with less fuss. I don’t know what i was thinking.
Totally anticipating your scan results.
OH WOW Watson. That is HIGH.
I mean, though, what DPO are you? Nevermind. It’s high.
We have a family at church who put two back and they have triplets. Just SAYING.
Here’s hoping for twins!! (right?)
GOOD LORD you triplet people are totally freaking me out!!
Why, when you know I’m dealing with an upcoming scan, a sick pregnant sister and a CRAZY, organic-obsessed mother, would you even suggest such a thing?
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHY?!?
Like Reality said, if anything even remotely triplet-like is going on in there I will need my very own private life pod vessel to get through it.
And don’t forget the Peyote.
And a one, and a two…TWO???!!! Can’t wait to hear the results of the scan, Watson.
As for your mother – did SHE breast-feed whilst sitting in that antique rocking chair? If she did, then she’s forgotten how frickin’ uncomfortable a rocking chair is when you’re trying to do THAT.
Thanks again for the laugh and congrats on the AMAZING beta. Can’t wait to see (read?) how the scan goes.
So you’re what? Like 27, 28 dp5dt? Which puts you around 32, 33 dpo? Sounds to me like you’re right where you should be.
(my clinic stops checking levels after about 1500 so I have no idea where my triplet pregnancy put me at 30dpo, so I can’t do any comparisons for you) I will say the odds of you having triplets in there are still pretty darned small, so I wouldn’t worry. Now, quads… that I could believe. JUST KIDDING!
I can’t wait to hear about your ultrasound tomorrow. I don’t know how you’ve held out so long!
57,000 is just normal doubling from your last beta (sue me, I’m a geek, I just wrote all your numbers down and did a calculation). So you’re fine, although it should actually stop doubling sometime soon. Don’t panic, wait for the scan. Thinking of you.
dammit! you guys have kitchenaids AND dualits? soooo jealous.
okay so if karen calculated it right for us and you are around 33dpo, betabase says the median for a singleton at 30dpo (the latest they report) is 16670, and for multiples it’s 30345. fingers crossed for twins!
best wishes to your sis too.
Wow, at first I just saw “57” and thought “NO, it dropped way down!” But, nope… we are looking at an entirely more promising scenario. Yay!
Your mom kills me. Stay away from the old rocking chair! Antiques are nice to look at, but they are seldom very functional!
i’m with you…that’s a pod. how’s that saying go?? if it beams like a pod, vibrates like a pod….
don’t hate me, but if you’re having triplets, i’m gonna laugh. probably so hard that snot will come out of my nose. Because that’d be really, really funny. Ok, now you hate me.
i’m with you…that’s a pod. how’s that saying go?? if it beams like a pod, vibrates like a pod….
don’t hate me, but if you’re having triplets, i’m gonna laugh. probably so hard that snot will come out of my nose. Because that’d be really, really funny. Ok, now you hate me.
WOW, Watson! Great beta. Keeping my fingers crossed for an equally great scan. (And I agree with you. It’s a pod. Totally.)
Watson – you better sleep with one eye open because the next time I see you (meet you?) I am going to kick your video-making, mother-in-a-pod-having, diet-coke-out-of-my-nose-causing ass! The title of this post combined with the first line, “My third beta came back at 57…”, gave me a third degree myocardial infarction sitting right here in my office!!!! (Third degree heart attack? I just cracked myself up…)
What the hell is the matter with you, scaring the bejezus out of me like that?? Shame on you! When the triplets are old enough, I’m going to tell them this story, and then you’ll be sorry!
Holy smokes, Watson, you scared me too! I read 57 as well. 57,000, now that’s better. Wishing you all the best of luck for tomorrow’s scan.
OMG, 57,000???? congratulations Watson. I found your blog today and I very excited for you. I can’t wait to hear about your scan
take care
OMG, 57,000???? congratulations Watson. I found your blog today and I very excited for you. I can’t wait to hear about your scan
take care
cannot wait to hear what 57, ??? adds up to..but I can tell you that I am SUPER DUPER excited. Holy crap for someone who was never pregant, all I can say is OVERACHIEVER…
my turn next, I start BCPs tonight and I am thinking of showing MR Kir your videos instead of the ones at the clinic, at least your’s are entertaining. 🙂
GOOD LUCK tomorrow. *hug*
Great beta, but like others, you almost gave me a heart attack with “my beta came back at 57…” I hope the first scan goes well.
Sounds good for you. Hope your sister holds up. And yes, I had a heart attack, too – for goshsakes, be careful!
Bea
Isn’t it comforting to know YOU’RE next. AND it sounds like your mom lives much closer to YOU than your sis?? 🙂
Yea!! Great Beta!! Can’t wait to see your us pics!! Your mother sounds like Darma’s mother from Darma and Greg! I love that show! I bet she is a hoot (your mother)! At least you and your sister share the same views and it isn’t your mother AND your sister ganging up on you to be “one with the earth!” However you really should be worried about matress “gassing”. Humm maybe that is why we have been having trouble getting pregnant….. matress gassing!! Yep that’s it!! Wow, I can now tell my RE that he has been replaced by an organic matress. Where would you buy those anyway??
A
Hey Watson,
Thinking of you today as you have your first u/s. Can’t wait to hear the good news.
-Faith
Thinking of you here, too, and anxiously awaiting your next update……