Second beta in

My second beta is finally back.  I was supposed to get the answer yesterday afternoon but there was some problem at the lab and they never got back to me.  So I spent a night wondering if my number was bad and they were trying to get the doctor to call me instead of the nurse so they could tell me the bad news.  Thankfully, I worried for nothing and everything was just fine.  My beta more than doubled! It went from 68.5 up to 199.2 so that’s a doubling time of about 31 hours!  We will have our first ultrasound on the Monday 22nd and the nurse said they should be able to see the heartbeat by then.  I think I’ll be 6 weeks, 5 days by then if I calculated it right.  I believe the heart actually starts beating earlier but they can’t see it on ultrasound until 6 weeks I think. 

Last time I had an ultrasound and was pregnant, we found out that our little baby no longer had a beating heart (this was after seeing it beating and seeing the baby moving around on ultrasound) so I’m definately going to be anxious about it but I’m trying very hard to stay positive and completely enjoy the pregnancy. 

4 weeks 1 day – Symptoms
So far I don’t have too many symptoms.  I’m just starting to feel the tinyest bit of nausea.  In past pregnancies I got quite sick when driving or reading – sort of like motion sickness which I used to have pretty bad when I was little.  I am starting to pee a lot and even waking up at night to pee.  And I’m gassy and a little bloated.  Yuck, what a terrible feeling.  But it’s totally worth it, and I’m glad to have a few symptoms so I can start to feel pregnant.