in the hospital
well, I’m in the hospital. Friday I was standing in the kitchen emptying out the dishwasher and all of a sudden I felt a gush of something. I thought I just leaked some urine or something because the baby had been kicking my bladder but I went into the bathroom and there was blood everywhere. Ben happened to have been pulling in the driveway just then so I jumped in his car and told him I needed to go to the ER. They sent me up to labor and delivery and they did some tests, checked my cervix and didn’t come up with a conclusive reason as to why I was bleeding. But they did find that my placenta is pretty low-lying and they think that could be why. Maybe when the baby was kicking me so low he/she hit my placenta or cervix and that’s what started it. i don’t know. All I know is the bleeding has pretty much stopped but I’m still having old blood coming out. The doctor here said that he wants me here until I have had absolutely no bleeding for 3 days. So who knows how long that will be. so far today I haven’t had any new bleeding (I had a little yesterday) so hopefully the old blood will stop soon and then I can start counting down the three days. Then when I do get to leave the hospital, I’ll be on bed rest for who knows how long. After the bleeding on friday I also started having pretty regular contractions, but luckily those have pretty much stopped now too. They have me on a medicine to stop them but they said it’s not a long-term fix so hopefully when they take me off the med the contractions stay gone. The baby has been doing fine this whole time. They have been intermittently monitoring his/her heartbeat and it’s been very strong and steady and he/she has been moving around a ton. So I don’t know… hopefully I don’t start bleeding again and as my uterus grows the placenta moves away from my cervix. I just know I’m going to be even more of a nervous wreck the rest of this pregnancy. At least I’m almost at the 24 week mark where the baby has a chance of survival if I do have to deliver. The doctor said when I got here on Friday that at 23 weeks and 5 days they will probably give me a steroid shot to help develop the babies lungs faster just in case. but yeah, one crappy weekend. I just hope everything turns out ok. I don’t know what I’d do if I lost this baby. 🙁