lies, damned lies, and statistics

I'm not gonna lie.

I'm freaking out a little bit here.

My beta yesterday came in at 8332.

According to the site betabase.info, that's about double the median for singleton pregnancies, and about 600 points less than the median for twin pregnancies.

But, they say these kinds of numbers are all over the place, and those are just median numbers.

And the chance that Happy split into two little ones is only 1.7 percent. Although, some say that there might be a higher chance for 5-day blasts than for 3-day embryos to split. And then others say that is totally false.

And I read somewhere that there may be a correlation between high numbers and gender (the higher the number, the more likely it's a girl....), but then there are plenty of people who say that is hogwash.

Who are these people, anyway?

I guess we'll have to wait for some answers until Friday, when we go in for our ultrasound.

Oh, Friday. There are too many days left for me to sit here and sift through lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Sigh.

In happier news, my momma comes to visit tonight for almost three weeks! Huzzah!!!!

to the max

Beta #2 results are in:

2868!!!!

My fab nurse said that the betas are "doubling appropriately" and they want me to come back for beta #3 on Monday.

My numbers, friends, are higher than my numbers were when I was pregnant with G & E.

In fact, the handy-dandy calculator on babymed.com indicates that I'm on the "max" line as far as numbers go.

Back in 2010, I was in between the average and max line.

Today, we're steadily following the max line.

Very interesting.

Very interesting, indeed.

be....wait for it....ta!

This morning, I was waiting with beta breath.

Sorry, that was terrible. But when a good pun presents itself, I just can't pass up the opportunity to smack it across the room.

Anyhoodles...I went in for my beta this morning.

And I waited.

And waited.

And waited.

Staring at my resurrected iPhone (huzzah!) and willing it to ring.

And ring it did.

My beta came back at 1315.

1315!!!

Friends...when I was pregnant with G and Elioenai, our first number was 464. Twins typically result in higher numbers. This one is almost triple that number.

TRIPLE!

BUT, my nurse said that sometimes frozen transfers result in higher numbers, she thinks it's a nice strong number. She tried to calm me down and (probably) prevent me from going on Google and researching typical betas.

Yeah, right.

But there is a large range of numbers that are possible for a singleton or twin pregnancy. So, I'm guessing we just have one very strong-willed baby in there...Lord help us. :)

One or two, I'm so excited.

Thank you, Lord, for letting Happy stick around.

EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm officially, officially pregnant!

4 weeks, 5 days down...35 weeks to go!!!