I'm 38 years old and am in the first trimester of my first pregnancy. I was told years ago that due to poly cystic ovarian syndrome that I would never get pregnant without help. Well, I did it! On December 2nd I took a home pregnancy test and it was negative. A week later I went to the doctor and on December 10, 2010 I got the good news! I was very excited and a little nervous, I am getting up there. Just a few days later, on December 14, 2010 I started bleeding, just spotting at first, then it got worse. I feared the worst and went to the nearest urgent care centre. After waiting and waiting and waiting, a pelvic exam was done and I was told that 50% of the time this leads to miscarriage and that I would need an ultrasound. The next day I was lucky to get the ultrasound and I saw my little blob and the heartbeat! The baby was alive!!! I went back down to see the doctor and after a very long wait, they came and told me that there was something they couldn't decipher on the ultrasound report and they were waiting for clarification but that the baby was alive. I was so tired at that point, that that's all I cared about so I went home.
A week and a half later, early in the morning December 24, 2010, I woke up in what can only be described as a pool of blood. My heart sank, not again! Then I became really calm. This had happened before and everything was fine. Everything will be fine. As it was 2 in the morning and the last night of partying before Christmas, I decided to wait until later to go to the ER. I went around 5:30 in the morning and there was no wait, thank god. While I was there, there were at least 3 other women in there with possible miscarriages. I felt so lucky by the time I left because all indications were that mine was still fine. One lady had lost hers and didn't react at all when they told her. Another one got whisked upstairs for an ultrasound before they even technically opened the department and another one got there just before I left so I don't know what happened to her. When I was getting the ultrasound and the technician went out to review the results with the doctor, I just stared at the ceiling saying, "fine, same as last time, fine, same as last time," over and over and over again. The ultrasound tech came back and told me that the baby's heartbeat looked good and that growth was normal for 9 weeks 3 days. Whew!
I have what's called subchorionic hemorrhage. In some cases it's because of a clot between the placenta and the uterine wall but in my case the placenta has pulled away from the uterine wall slightly. It happens in 1/3rd of pregnancies and when it does happen 50% of the time it ends in miscarriage. I've beaten it twice!!!
Apparently this bleeding can continue but I sure hope it stops. It's a little bit disconcerting to be needing pads while pregnant. I was kind of looking forward to the whole no bleeding thing. I have my first OB/GYN visit January 4th and a follow up ultrasound January 7th. Hopefully the bleeding will stop soon and I won't have to go through this again, as I get closer to the 12 week mark I'm feeling more confident.
I did a bunch of research on the Internet and didn't find a huge amount of information out there, so hopefully this blog will help someone in the same situation.
I will try to be as honest as possible and since pregnancy and child birth can be very messy, this blog may be too. The good, the bad and the ugly.
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