What Happens When You Have A Chemical Pregnancy After A Frozen Embryo Transfer
Notes of hope from the IVF road
It was a Wednesday afternoon in early January.
My husband and I had just finished lunch when my phone rang — it was our fertility office. We had received the call that our frozen embryo transfer had worked two days prior, and I was indeed pregnant. The blood test that they had done detected a level of HCG in my blood. HCG, otherwise known as human chorionic gonadotropin, is a hormone for the maternal recognition of pregnancy produced by trophoblast cells that are surrounding a growing embryo, which eventually forms the placenta after implantation.
The blood test I took at the doctor’s office had detected a low HCG level, so I was pregnant. To make sure that the pregnancy was progressing and viable, they’d need to repeat the blood test in two days, to see whether or not my HCG levels were rising — a sign that things were progressing in the right direction.
It was a Wednesday afternoon in early January.
We had just finished lunch and were already starting to dream a little bit about a future with our baby. We smiled at the thought of having a little one running around. Our hearts warmed at the idea that the fertility treatment had…
