Spent all day in ER
Jitterbug2668
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Friday started off very typical of me. Up at 3:45 for work, at work by 6, did all of my normal stuff, but around 10 I went to the bathroom and noticed there was blood in the toilet. I sat back down, wiped again and red blood, like the first or second day of my period was on the TP. I honestly freaked. Walked back to my office, and before I could even open the door, I broke down in tears. Luckily 2 of co-workers were right there, one who is 3 weeks ahead of me in her pregnancy and one who had been through it before. They sat me down, had me call my OB, and before I could even get a call back from the OB, they had DC Fire/Paramedics on their way. Talk about scary! I was taken to GW by ambulance and had a police escort following us. Guess thats what I get when I work for a police dept who happens to be like a second family to me.
I spent 6 hours there, had an internal done which the dr said my cervix was still closed so I breathed a sigh of relief after that, but they wanted to send me home and I requested to have an ultrasound done to ensure everything was absolutely fine. They have me an internal & external ultrasound and I got to really see the baby for the first time. Tiny yet so amazingly formed and moving around like crazy. It looked like the baby was in there using my uterus as a springboard. DH wasnt able to go back w/ me but they sent me back to my room w/ 3 pictures to take home. I was also given the RH negative shot in my badonkadonk - which I asked the nurse to give it to DH after I saw the size of the needle! Not so lucky on that request, but the baby was doing great. Still no idea what caused the bleeding though.
I was able to get in touch with the on call OB friday night and was told to be on bedrest for the weekend.
If anyone else has any experiences like this, I'd love to hear about them.
~Theresa
Re: Spent all day in ER
I had significant bleeding at both 9 weeks and 12 weeks of my pregnancy with DS. The first time I went to the ER. The second time I just went to see my ob and she got a normal heartbeat on the monitor.
He was premature but the bleeding had nothing to do with it (I had HELLP). As you can see, he's a perfectly healthy guy today.
I had a very similar experience at 18 weeks and again at 32 weeks - possibly even heavier bleeding than yours. It was really scary! The first time, we went to my doctor's office, where they checked my cervix and did an ultrasound (just like you). At 32 weeks, they checked my cervix and hooked me up to a contraction monitor. Both times, everything was fine - just random bleeding. Really scary since obviously there's no way of knowing the baby is OK without an ultrasound but everything turned out fine, as you can see from my sig pic!
Just take it easy the next few days. You could have had a subchorionic hematoma, which aren't uncommon and generally resolve by 20 weeks without an issue.
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I had a similar experience and it turned out to be a subchorionic bleed. We also spent a terrifying night in the ER (at about 7 weeks) after I began bleeding rather heavily. Everything looked fine on the ultrasound with the baby, but they did warn me that I could bleed some more. I think I had spotting for at least one, maybe two weeks after that. I was on edge for several months after that incident, but I now have a very healthy 14 month old.
I hope that all is okay with you and your little one.
wow- so scary. I had some serious spotting right around the same time as you, but nothing like that. Fingers crossed that everything goes smoothly from now on!