Hard Boiled: A Donor Egg Blog

I am unutterably relieved to post that today's beta went up to 596, from 223 three days ago. IVFer's HCG calculator tells me this i...

I had my second serum beta HCG test today. It has risen to 223, from 156 on Wednesday. This is not the doubling that is expected for a hea...

This morning as planned, I used my last HPT and got an instant, but faint, line. It was darker than the preceding tests, but worried me a b...

This morning's test required no squinting, no waiting, no tilting, and no special lighting. It's a faint but definite line and has ...

How do I torture myself? Let me count the ways. I really must buy stock in the company that manufactures First Response Early Result pregn...

I'm pregnant. Or at least, I like to think of myself that way, after a transfer. Inside me are two 8-celled embryos, one Grade 1 and on...