Hard Boiled: A Donor Egg Blog

Apologies for the month offline -- I seem to be saying that with every post lately. My DE pregnancy is going just fine, but I have had all-...

Hello to everyone who hasn't given up on checking this blog. I am still here, and still pregnant. I think out of desperation, I just ne...

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 ...