"Victory is the sweetest, when you've known defeat"

... Indeed... Baby Mama and her husband have known defeat... particularly in this long journey.
And now, we can begin to breathe just a bit easier.

Some of you have followed us on Facebook and know that (like the impatient people that we are) Baby mama and I tested with a home test WAY too early and got the expected negative.
Of course that only prompted us to continue to test.... daily....
And we continued to get negative results.
On Thursday, the 30th Baby Mama contacted the fertility clinic to ask them to push the beta test from Monday to Friday.
We were not hopeful at that point. The nurse told us that this was probably an indication of what we should expect, and we began to prepare for the worst.
Thursday was a crappy day for all of us as we all went through a variety of emotions.
We began to prepare our closest friends for the likelihood that this was not a successful transfer.
Since I had one leftover test, I decided to use it on Friday morning ... this test was positive... I nearly fell over when I was the result!
Of course my camera phone was not cooperating, so I had my daughter take a picture of the test, and send it to Baby Mama.
Needless to say, she and her hubby were equally shocked!
I had a very long day in court, and then went to the lab for my beta... at that point we wouldn't have the results until Saturday morning!

After a very harrowing morning involving Baby Daddy stalking the fertility clinic... LOL... we got our first number.... 50.

A follow up test was scheduled for Monday. I JUST made the morning pick-up! by 3 that afternoon, we were at almost 500!
They were looking for a number of 100...
And here we are... Wednesday.
For today's blood test we were looking for close to double (around 1000). since it would actually be only about 45 hours and not the full 2 days, I told Baby Mama that I am sure it would be fine if we hadn't completely doubled our numbers...
That didn't turn out to be a problem....
Today's number was a whopping 1584... more than triple!

What does this all mean, you may ask....

Right now, we are awaiting further instructions from SGFC.
We may have another blood test on Friday, or we may jump straight to the ultrasound sometime within the next couple of weeks... until then, we know that we have success... the unknown... is how much success... whatever it is though, we'll take it!

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery~