Countdown...

10:30am: 
My first doctor's appointment is today at 3:50. Basically it's just an appointment to do bloodwork to confirm that I actually am pregnant (and that I didn't just happen to get false positives on the THREE tests I took). Regardless, I am very anxious. Remember that sense of calm I told you about in my last post? That lasted all of about 24 hours. Now I'm starting to get increasingly nervous. Doctors' offices are where the bad things happen - that's where they tell you that you've miscarried, or that you need surgery, or that you only have one ovary left. I'm really hoping that this time doctors' offices can become a place of celebration!

5pm  update: 
So I didn't get any good news in the office (I had to wait for all the tests to be run, so they sent me home to wait for a nurse's call), but I did get good news over the phone!! So far all my numbers look great! Apparently my progesterone is 20-something and my HCG level is 430-something.  According to these sites that I later googled (since I, of course, wanted to double-check the nurse's reassurance that everything looked great), that's right where my numbers should be. Whew! So now I get to have new bloodwork done on Tuesday (to make sure my HCG levels double by then), and if that looks good then we get to schedule an "early ultrasound." Fingers crossed!