Six days to go...

By about this time next week, I should know if this IVF was "successful". I put it in quotes because I will call it successful when I am holding my baby. Even if it's a positive test, I won't much be in a celebrating mood until at least 12-14 weeks along. I suppose that's how having a miscarriage makes you feel.

Until then, I have to decide if I want to do a home pregnancy test (HPT) before Monday. I mentioned that my last shot given March 8 was HCG (which is the pregnancy hormone measured in HPT). So, if I had taken an HPT to this point, it would be positive because that shot is still being metabolized and will be for up to 10-12 days. There's something that the infertile community calls "testing out the trigger".  You test every day until the HPT goes negative (and therefore, HCG shot is out of your body), so if you test and get a positive after that, you know it's from being pregnant and not from the HCG shot still in your body. Oh, the things I go through!

My argument for testing early has always been that I don't want the biggest news of my life delivered in a phone call in the middle of the work day when I am home alone. I think that's fair, right? Some people insist on waiting because they don't want to get a false negative and be devastated or even get a false positive (this can be caused by a chemical pregnancy which is basically the earliest kind of miscarriage). But either way, the fate is coming to me and doing an HPT is not going to change it. And so, I will probably test at some point later this week or weekend.

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers! It is much appreciated!