shereejoy
08-11-2005, 13:15
If I can help anyone with my story for their own reassurance I will be pleased!
I had discharge from 5 weeks to 8.5 weeks of which 2 days were red. All scans and HCG levels appeared good.
I started discharging again straight after scan on Thursday (approx 11 weeks), bit concerning but it wasn't bad. We had always planned to go to Warrick for the weekend to visit Wade's sister who is 19 weeks pregnant, and seeing as it had eased by Friday afternoon, off we went at 6am on Saturday morning. Wade's parents were there for the weekend also.
At 3am Sunday morning I woke up feeling all wet down there, sometimes I sweat alot during night, and I was inclined to ignore and rollover and go back to sleep, then I felt a gush, I bellowed to Wade, he turned on the light and there was red blood everywhere! I was crying, screaming and shaking. I woke the whole house. I went to the toilet and felt something fall out of me, I salvaged it from the bottom of the toilet. It was a clot about the size of my palm with no fetus in it! I was terrified, as I didn't know whether I had got it all from the toilet or not. Then I started cramping and had tail bone pain. Wade's sisters' husband is an ambo, and he raced me to the hospital. He has connections which was great, but they couldn't do a scan until 9am (when the obsterician came in). That was the longest wait, they gave me a sleeping tablet and I still couldn't sleep. I had given up hope as everyone knows red blood (and lots of it), clots and cramps are not a good sign. You could see on the doctor and nurses face they were not convinced all was ok. But sure enough
there was bubbles still alive and well. Bubbles was active, but hb had declined somewhat. Thursday it was 167, and it was now 120, which I was worried, but the doctor wasn't. That afternoon he did another scan and hb had increased a little. They kept me over night for observation, the bleeding was subsiding, as was the cramps. Finally went to sleep at 10:30pm Sunday night and then woke at 4am (hard to sleep in those hospitals). I had made an appointment with the gyno for Monday about a month ago and was eager to get back for it. The doctor released me and we made it back for my appointment right on the dot of my apppointment time of 2:20pm. That was such a long 5 1/2 hour drive, and it appeared that the bumpy ride, shook up my discharge again.
Anyway the gyno was very happy, he said for me to make it this far with all my discharge throughout the pregnancy was such a good sign. He said if I was going to m/c it would have happened on Sunday as with all that blood, it would have come away with it (normally)! He said at 12 weeks I now have a 95% chance of keeping the baby, and not m/c'ing, and at 16 weeks it become 98%. He did a scan and there bubbles was, very active, and the doctor said that was such a good sign. He could see nothing but good signs as the fetus and placenta looked healthy. But he ordered me to bed rest for the next couple of weeks as it is now so crucial. He truely believes if I do the right things there would be no reason for bubbles to leave. He told me my baby is a little fighter. He did an internal on me and confirmed that my current discharge is old blood and is reasonably confident it was my placenta coming away from the uterus in a section and blood got caught up behind it and clotted. He said I would have done something that day to dislodge it and it needed to be dislodged in order for the placenta to heal.
The doctor has given me so much hope, I just have to do the right things now. I am so relieved and can't believe the miracle that has just happened. Even the nurse told me that she didn't think bubbles was still alive. Wade and I are so exhausted and are glad we did not become a statistic. Now I can give hope to anyone that has a bleed, as mine was so extreme and here we are!
I can't explain my happiness!!!!!!!
Oh and also the scan on Thursday dated me at 12 weeks today, and my dates are 11 weeks 4 days today, and the gyno's dates from scan yesterday is 12 weeks 3 days today. So bubba is really growing well. I think I will go with the 12 weeks today (the one in the middle), just so I feel a little more at ease with reaching a milestone!
I had discharge from 5 weeks to 8.5 weeks of which 2 days were red. All scans and HCG levels appeared good.
I started discharging again straight after scan on Thursday (approx 11 weeks), bit concerning but it wasn't bad. We had always planned to go to Warrick for the weekend to visit Wade's sister who is 19 weeks pregnant, and seeing as it had eased by Friday afternoon, off we went at 6am on Saturday morning. Wade's parents were there for the weekend also.
At 3am Sunday morning I woke up feeling all wet down there, sometimes I sweat alot during night, and I was inclined to ignore and rollover and go back to sleep, then I felt a gush, I bellowed to Wade, he turned on the light and there was red blood everywhere! I was crying, screaming and shaking. I woke the whole house. I went to the toilet and felt something fall out of me, I salvaged it from the bottom of the toilet. It was a clot about the size of my palm with no fetus in it! I was terrified, as I didn't know whether I had got it all from the toilet or not. Then I started cramping and had tail bone pain. Wade's sisters' husband is an ambo, and he raced me to the hospital. He has connections which was great, but they couldn't do a scan until 9am (when the obsterician came in). That was the longest wait, they gave me a sleeping tablet and I still couldn't sleep. I had given up hope as everyone knows red blood (and lots of it), clots and cramps are not a good sign. You could see on the doctor and nurses face they were not convinced all was ok. But sure enough
there was bubbles still alive and well. Bubbles was active, but hb had declined somewhat. Thursday it was 167, and it was now 120, which I was worried, but the doctor wasn't. That afternoon he did another scan and hb had increased a little. They kept me over night for observation, the bleeding was subsiding, as was the cramps. Finally went to sleep at 10:30pm Sunday night and then woke at 4am (hard to sleep in those hospitals). I had made an appointment with the gyno for Monday about a month ago and was eager to get back for it. The doctor released me and we made it back for my appointment right on the dot of my apppointment time of 2:20pm. That was such a long 5 1/2 hour drive, and it appeared that the bumpy ride, shook up my discharge again.
Anyway the gyno was very happy, he said for me to make it this far with all my discharge throughout the pregnancy was such a good sign. He said if I was going to m/c it would have happened on Sunday as with all that blood, it would have come away with it (normally)! He said at 12 weeks I now have a 95% chance of keeping the baby, and not m/c'ing, and at 16 weeks it become 98%. He did a scan and there bubbles was, very active, and the doctor said that was such a good sign. He could see nothing but good signs as the fetus and placenta looked healthy. But he ordered me to bed rest for the next couple of weeks as it is now so crucial. He truely believes if I do the right things there would be no reason for bubbles to leave. He told me my baby is a little fighter. He did an internal on me and confirmed that my current discharge is old blood and is reasonably confident it was my placenta coming away from the uterus in a section and blood got caught up behind it and clotted. He said I would have done something that day to dislodge it and it needed to be dislodged in order for the placenta to heal.
The doctor has given me so much hope, I just have to do the right things now. I am so relieved and can't believe the miracle that has just happened. Even the nurse told me that she didn't think bubbles was still alive. Wade and I are so exhausted and are glad we did not become a statistic. Now I can give hope to anyone that has a bleed, as mine was so extreme and here we are!
I can't explain my happiness!!!!!!!
Oh and also the scan on Thursday dated me at 12 weeks today, and my dates are 11 weeks 4 days today, and the gyno's dates from scan yesterday is 12 weeks 3 days today. So bubba is really growing well. I think I will go with the 12 weeks today (the one in the middle), just so I feel a little more at ease with reaching a milestone!