Thanks for your encouragement! I do feel much better!!
Happynifer, I saw that you had your 30 week appointment. Congratulations! And thanks for checking in with the old fertility board to help us out!
you are on estrogen because of the IVF...they suppressed you before your transfer and artificially built up your lining.
i was also on estrogen and progesterone for the first 6 weeks of my pregnancy, although my clinic did not measure either.
people with hig numbers can have one baby, and you can start out lower and have multiples. so the numbers aren't much indication unfortunately.
you'll know how many at your first scan :)
That beta is more than good. Is great first number. You will be on the estrogen for some time and it doesn't effect your embryo cause is a normal body hormone. Just follow the beta that it doubles everything else will be fine.
That was about the same number as my daughters first beta and she felt no symptoms for a while she now has 8 month old triplets so that number is great.
PS good luck to you this week as well!
Thank you for the encouragement! That's great to hear about your friend with twins. So mine could be twins, too, right? Is there a # people usually see who are having twins? Or a cutoff below which it's not likely to be twins?
Thanks for your quick responses!
Happynifer, this is very interesting (and reassuring!) information...it all makes sense. But if estrogen is supposed to drop off, do you have any idea why my doctor is having me stay on the estrogen pills? Also, they didn't seem to like the 50% drop in estrogen levels...
169 is an AWESOME # & y ou should be so pleased with it. I don't think it is twins as you suggested, but one never knows what can happen
I do know someone that had twins & her #'s went something like this..
104, 339, 962, 2327, 8400
Keep the faith.
your estrogen is not what makes you "feel" pregnant...it's the progesterone.
the estrogen helped mature your follicles (although not needed with a FET), to build your lining and helped your embie(s) to implant but naturally will drop off as the progesterone takes over.
symptoms come and go. some women have zero and have very healthy pregnancies.
if your dr wanted more than 50 and you are 3x that number, then that is great.
the biggest indicator is how the beta is increasing over the next several days.
so hang in there and hope your number doubles every 48-72 hours.
your number is fine my very first beta was only 100 even so as far as that goes it's good I am not sure about the estrogen ? though