Double Deuce

The usual wait time to find out if one is pregnant is approximately 14 days after the egg, or eggs, have implanted. In the case of IVF, two blood tests are performed, one at 10 days and one at 14 days. It is, as I recall, the longest two weeks of one's life. After our third round of IVF, we went back east for a wedding and would be forced to wait an extra three days for our second blood test. (I use the plural pronoun here liberally - obviously only one of us was consistently at the pointy end of a medical needle.) We are not particularly patient people so it was no surprise when we took matters into our own hands.

After about a week of waiting, we bought our first pregnancy test. Negative. We assured each other that it was too early, and with all the hormones probably not terribly reliable and then decided to check again the next day. And by next day, we meant the next time the possibly pregnant one had to piss.

If memory serves, it was the sixth pregnancy test that, after proper basting time, showed the faintest of pink lines in the "yes you are pregnant" box. We assured each other that it could be wrong, and with all the hormones probably not terribly reliable and then decided to continue to check every hour on the hour for the next three days. As if IVF isn't expensive enough, we racked up quite a bill at the local Duane Reade.

By day 12, we were pretty sure. 17 pregnancy tests can't be wrong. Then the doctor did his fancy blood tests and had a nurse call to give us the good news.

Turns out, it takes about the same amount of time to find out if one is having baby pigeons. The experts say anywhere from 14 - 17 days of incubation. I have no idea when the little eggs showed up, but I'm going to assume the first one has been there about a week and the second one about 5 days. So if those little eggs are going to turn into little, really ugly baby birds, by my calculations things should start shaking on April 22.