I can still remember several patients in tears when they came for blood draws, thinking they were not pregnant as their home pregnancy test was negative, only to call them later that day giving them great news. If you have been dehydrated, your urine will be very concentrated and if you have stayed well-hydrated, your urine will be dilute. You could use home urine pregnancy tests to “cheat.” But they can be inaccurate and they depend on the dilution of your urine. But I do agree, nine days seems like forever, even for the physician as we wait expectantly, hoping to tell our patients they are expecting. Hinckley on the 9-day wait & the IVF resultsĪctually, it’s no longer a two week wait for IVF results. “Eighty percent puppy, twenty percent IVF.” “That little guy helped us get pregnant,” I told Ken. Friso, sensing the excitement, zoomed in loops through the room, leaping on and off the sofa, attacking the new fabric with paws and teeth. ![]() By noon we’d sent a glowing four-paragraph testimonial of commendation, gushing about their delivery skills. One of them handed us his card and asked us to write his manager. Then we went downstairs and gave the sofa guys a fat tip. When we hung up, we high-fived, hugged, and stared at each other with gawping fish mouths. “Your HCG levels are off the charts,” she continued, while we said back and forth, “Wow!” and, “Oh my God!” and, “We did it!” ![]() “You are pregnant.” She even drew out her words, speaking at an unexpectedly leisured pace. It seemed to happen in slow motion, the ring, the reach for the phone, the settling with Ken on our living room sofa. Two guys were downstairs, attaching wooden legs to an ottoman, when the phone rang. Of course the new sofa and the call from Dr. I wouldn’t allow a bunch of strangers online to get me riled. If those takeout dry-fried green beans made me queasy, it could be almost anything. For once I didn’t bother searching my physical symptoms online. I found that the Internet world had a name for this last stretch before the big verdict: “the two-week wait” or, in infertility chat rooms, “the tww.” Its primary known side effect, agony, seemed to afflict almost everyone. He would respond about half the time but seemed to prefer cuddling in our laps or sneaking off to the kitchen to poop in a corner. We’d do hours of “sit” and “down” commands, as if cramming for PhD orals. In the last leg of IVF, the week of waiting for news, I managed to distract myself with Friso, who was finishing puppy obedience school. Excerpt from The Doctor and the Stork book Part 4: The two week wait
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