Pregnancy dreams are weird. Last night I dreamt I went to visit my husband’s sister and walked in on her breastfeeding her cat.
November 8, 2011 November 8, 2011
One. We’ve got one strong baby growing in there. It’s measuring slightly ahead and has a good strong heartbeat.
We are surprised that it’s not two, but one is better for us. Not only is the pregnancy less risky, but I have no idea how we would have run our cheese business while dealing with two infants.
So, one. And we’re happy.
November 4, 2011 November 4, 2011
Not surprisingly I can’t stop thinking about my elevated betas. I’ve done some reading and found a research article on IVF & monozygotic multiples. This is what it said:
It can be summarized from the literature that prolonged culture as well as manipulations of the zona pellucida (ICSI and/or assisted hatching) could lead to an increased rate of monozygotic multiples. To minimize the resulting risks such as increased abortion rates, increased perinatal morbidity and mortality (Al‐Nuaim and Jenkins, 2002), assisted hatching in combination with ICSI and blastocyst culture should be critically performed. The aim of therapy should be the transfer of only one blastocyst in as many patients as possible. In our opinion the incidence of 5.9–8.9% monozygotic multiples after ICSI and blastocyst transfer reported in the literature requires the prior informing of patients of the uncertainties until this phenomenon and its risk factors are better understood.
We did ICSI and blastocyst culture. I know that the clinic did assisted hatching on the embryo from our failed transfer in the summer. I don’t know know if they did for this recent one. But 5.9-8.9% is a high enough chance to be significant in my mind.
November 2, 2011 November 2, 2011
Still pregnant. I got my beta results yesterday. They’re a little high. We only transferred one embryo so it’s most likely that I just have one really strong little critter growing in there, but the hcg levels make me wonder if it split. We’ll find out on Nov. 8th when I have my first ultrasound. I’ll be 7w2d at that point. And for interest’s sake, here are my levels, and levels posted on Betabase:
Mine:
At 18DPO – 972
At 25DPO – 11000
According to betabase, the Median HCG for a singleton:
At 18DPO – 416
At 25DPO – 4285
For Twins:
At 18DPO – 806
At 25DPO – 9040
