A bit of a scare

Two nights ago there was a bit of a baby scare.

At about 8:30pm Wednesday night I started bleeding, a lot. I was scared out of my mind. First of all, I thought immediately MISCARRIAGE. After the fourth or fifth trip to the bathroom, I started thinking about myself. I was losing quite a bit of blood.

I called the fertility doctor, and he was very calm, and seemed undisturbed. Which bother me since I thought I was bleeding to death. (Clearly wasn't -- but I was a bit panicked). He told me to come in the next morning for an ultrasound.

That drive to Highland Park was the loooongest ever!!!! My mind wouldn't stop going back and forth. But one thing I did come back to was that I really still felt pregnant. So, that was good, but still just a feeling.

The ultrasound tech took the intended mother (who met me there) and I back right away and was very comforting. Which in turn was a little "uncomforting".

But, alas, all is well. Well, kind of.

The baby is fine. Me on the other hand --- I have developed a subchorionic bleed. something that occurs when the embryo is attached to my uterine lining. I had one earlier - about 4 weeks along, but it went away, no bleeding, all was well. Apparently another has popped up. This one is much larger and has developed right at the top of my cervical opening, so I will bleed until the thing has bleed out completely. The tech said that the baby could care less about this bleed and that he/she was doing just great.

Unfortunately the bleed can reoccur, again. Matter of fact it can happen late through the pregnancy. Great! Bleeding while pregnant is quite stressful to say the least, even when apparently it is not a big deal.

So, for now, I need to take it easy, with a few restrictions and hopefully NO MORE BLEEDING!