Everything has been going really well. We even traveled to Denver for a funeral last week and I didn’t get sick or freak out (I did, however, vomit for the third time this pregnancy, exciting!). Other than that, there hasn’t been much action on the pregnancy front and that made me happy.
Then last night, I woke up for what I assumed was my usual 1:00AM trip to the bathroom but immediately felt a gushing / period is starting sensation. Once I got to the toilet I saw bright red, watery blood everywhere (toilet and underwear). I woke the hubby (who is thankfully in town this week), called my OB’s on call line (and left a message that was “to be returned within 20 minutes”, okay, OR SIX HOURS later), and headed to the ER.
The ER admitted me into the labor and delivery triage immediately, where we sat for about an hour waiting for the ultrasound tech to come. The bleeding got heavier and heavier, and we feared the worst.
The hospitals on call doc (NOT my OB’s on call doc) showed up just in time for the ultrasound. The ultrasound showed two healthy, moving babies with heartbeats still in the 150s (as they were in the previous ultrasound at 13 weeks).
Don’t get me started about the on call doc’s apparent annoyance with “high risk IVF pregnancies” (as in, she made it sound like she’s against IVF as a whole). Which really pissed me off at 2am this morning but now I am just glad I have found caring doctors that don’t see the world in such black and white terms.
Anyway, Apparently baby A is too close to the cervix, resulting in placenta previa. The hospital is monitoring me until my bleeding subsides (SO. MUCH. BLOOD. OMG).Then after that, I guess all anyone can do about it is monitor me even closer (this week I was already supposed to start cervical length ultrasounds every two weeks), and hope that as the uterus grows, baby A’s placenta migrates north.
The bleeding briefly stopped but came back this afternoon (of course after they found the heartbeats again, this time on the Doppler only, to ease my worrying mind), so now I’m back to worrying.
So that’s where we are at. All we can do is wait (apparently a while in order for my uterus to grow sufficiently). But for now, baby steps. Step 1 -for the love of God, please let the bleeding stop.
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