HCG Count 11,000 and the joys of internet

About five days ago, I did not know much about different stages of pregnancy and things that go along with it. Then came the positive pregnancy test and I did what a normal (meaning nerdy) software engineer would do to learn about something new. I started googled stuff.

There's soooo much information online that things get dizzy after a while. Since we're not exactly sure how many months S is along ... I convinced everybody ( i.e my mom and S's mom and S) that we HAD to get a quantitative HCG blood test done. We went to AKUH lab for the test this morning. The reports generally are to be collected at the end of the next day. But due to the really awesome online report feature of AKUH, we were able to check the results online around 9pm today.

Her HCG count is 11,098 mIU/ml and according to the following chart, puts her somewhere in her 6th or 7th week.

Week from the Last Menstrual Period	Amount of HCG in mIU/ml
3	5 -50
4	3 - 426
5	19 - 7,340
6	1,080 - 56,500
7 - 8	7,650 - 229,000
9 - 12	25,700 - 288,000
13 - 16	13,300 - 254,000
17 - 24	4,060 - 165,400
25 - 40	3,640 - 117,000

We're planning to go see a gynecologist tomorrow. Maybe she'll be able to hear the heartbeat of the baby :D