could they day get any worse? (kinda long vent)

glycerine1281

I don't even really know how to start a vent post like this. I guess I'll start with last night. SIL is a drug addict and she has a nasty habit of calling DH and I, strung out and feeling extra sorry for herself. This is a fairly new thing, but it's very stressful to the both of us. She lives about 2,000 miles away from her whole family so I think that makes it even harder. We both are not really sure what to do about it. Anyway, she called last night and got us all worried and riled up.

I managed to fall asleep for about 5 hours and woke up around 3:30am. I could NOT stop thinking about SIL and the more I thought, the more angry was getting. I didn't get back to sleep so I've been awake since 3:30. I got up and found that she had called my phone at 2am!! She knows I work an 8-5 job and I am alseep then (she doesn't know about the pregnancy, but, oddly, we're getting the most pressure from her about having a baby). Her behavior is getting so bad. Something told me to put my phone on vibrate so I wouldn't hear any calls, well, I guess that motherly instict was kicking in. Too bad it didn't really matter, sleep-wise.

So, I spent the morning downright livid at her. Then work was particularly stressful. I got home and I went to the bathroom and wiped and sure enough, there was pink blood on the tissue. I totally lost it and cried for an hour before falling asleep for a half hour nap. I have really faint cramping I guess. It feels more like ute stretching/growth than cramping to me though.

I've gone number 1 twice since then and there's almost no blood and it's turning brown already, but I have not had ANY spotting as of yet. Nothing on a panty liner either.

It was just too much to handle. DH is at work till about 10:30 and I may not even be awake still when he gets here. I know this will really worry him too and he's just as stressed out as I am right now.  

My first appointment is Thursday morning.  Why is this so scary?

Skruffy

rough day!

AlishaMay

This is a really rough day, I'm sorry you have to go though this right now.

If it's any consolation, I had some spotting around the same time (my doc calls anything that's not a menstrual like flow spotting, so in her book, what you had would qualify as spotting)

I was told that around 9 weeks is prime time for placental development, and as it grows it usually runs into capillaries that seal off quickly and don't bleed.  But sometimes it can come across a vein, or larger blood vessel and bleed a little bit.  My doc also told me to keep in mind that bleeding of any sort that turns brown is a relatively good thing, because brown means old blood, and usually means that whatever event that caused the bleeding or spotting has passed.

If you don't feel you can wait until Thursday, give your office a quick call in the morning, that's what they are there for.

Good Luck, hope you can get some much needed rest tonight!

glycerine1281

AlishaMay:

This is a really rough day, I'm sorry you have to go though this right now.

If it's any consolation, I had some spotting around the same time (my doc calls anything that's not a menstrual like flow spotting, so in her book, what you had would qualify as spotting)

I was told that around 9 weeks is prime time for placental development, and as it grows it usually runs into capillaries that seal off quickly and don't bleed.  But sometimes it can come across a vein, or larger blood vessel and bleed a little bit.  My doc also told me to keep in mind that bleeding of any sort that turns brown is a relatively good thing, because brown means old blood, and usually means that whatever event that caused the bleeding or spotting has passed.

If you don't feel you can wait until Thursday, give your office a quick call in the morning, that's what they are there for.

Good Luck, hope you can get some much needed rest tonight!

Congrats on twins! That must be so exciting for you

Oh, thank you. This makes me feel better and I did not know this. I've really had so few symptoms this whole time that I really was starting to think it was too good to be true. If I have more blood tomorrow, I'll call, but for now, i think I can wait till the appointment.

Gosh, I love the bump and the ladies on 1st Tri.