We're pregnant!

Our official four week beta test came through with an hCG level of 314 which is a most definite affirmation that our first IVF has indeed worked.

Of course, there was no way I could wait that long, so I did some sneak tests earlier last week, two and four days before the official one, which came in at 31 and 114 respectively, which indicates that things are going very well indeed.

We're ... I dunno ... in a bit of a daze I guess, as it is something I've avoided thinking about for so long now because it becomes quite hard to imagine pregnancy and kids around when things are just not happening. And now I have to think about it, and it is almost as if my brain has a block! But I got my book, I'm reading it, I'm already eating funnily (puked everything I ate up on the weekend due to a migraine and now don't feel like any food whatsoever, even chocolate cake is left untouched!) and I have no doubt that I can feel... something down there. Which could still be from all the procedures that happened down there, though, rather than the real something.

We have so many friends being so incredibly happy for us and it is awesome. My mother-in-law is phoning the whole world including CNN to make sure everyone knows, and she is hopping up and down like an energizer bunny (it's her first grandchild). It is incredibly early days, so I keep telling people, hey, stuff happens, you know, at least until six weeks, and then until twelve weeks, and then until 28 weeks, and then we can maybe say, ok, it's sticking. But for now, it is there and we are incredibly grateful. Unbelievably grateful in fact. Knowing how hard things can become and how traumatising this journey have been to many people, we got away with one single IVF (ok, given that we did take four years of disappointment to get there!) and we got our bean. Or beans. The high betas, who knows, maybe we get two.... which would be awesome yet freaky!!!

Now... to find a place where you can get an ultrasound every week in Cape Town... what's with this waiting until the six week? I wanna see the blobs!!!! :)