Blah, okay ladies, just need a little support or just someone to cheer me up as I'm not usually someone who freaks out and whines about every little thing on the normal BnB boards and I try to stay out of all the panicking about pregnancy. But yesterday morning I was in the shower and reached down to wash 'down there' and when I pulled my hand back it was covered in blood. I just about passed out. It must have just started because I'd used the toilet not long before and there wasn't any in my underwear when I'd gotten undressed. I shut off the water and got out and sat on the toilet for about 5 minutes and just kept wiping it up. It wasn't like massively heavy with clots or anything, but it would have been like a good solid medium to heavy flow day of my period (I probably have pretty light periods compared to most people). I put on a panty liner and went and got dressed and sat down in the bedroom for a little bit. And went back to check in about 5-10 minutes. There was still bright red blood but it was slowing down. It all lasted for about 20 minutes, still no clots or anything, and it didn't even soak the panty liner, then changed to just brown spotting.
I had otherwise felt fine all morning before that and had no cramping, so being the optimistic and scientific person that I am, I figured it must be one of those things that just happens and probably everything is fine. I laid down on the sofa for pretty much the rest of the day (one of the benefits of working from home is that you can blow off work and nap when these sorts of things happen). I did have some mild cramping that started up maybe an hour or two later. It wasn't severe, but I did have the occasional sharp pain here and there. I only had a bit of spotting the rest of the day and a little tiny bit this morning, but it was old brown stuff, nothing red. I still feel kinda sore down there, like bruised, or like I've been punched in the pelvic area. It's definitely not like doubling over kinda pain and if it had happened without the bleeding it's probably something I wouldn't have thought twice about but just chalked up to my uterus stretching or whatnot.
I know bleeding happens all the time and it's not even necessarily a sign something is wrong. Obviously, it can be, but lots of women have bleeding and it's unexplained and they have perfectly healthy pregnancies. So at first, I really didn't stress about it and just thought I'd wait it out and see what happened the rest of this week. I'm realistic that if something is wrong, panicking and rushing to A&E isn't going to make it all better. But anyway, my husband convinced me that I probably should call my midwife, so I did this morning. The on-call midwife definitely kinda panicked me a bit because she sounded really concerned, and now they have been booked in for a scan first thing tomorrow morning. Now it all suddenly seems real that there could be something wrong.
I really am one of those people who'd rather just leave it and see what happens and not freak out and run to the doctor (maybe I just prefer denial? I don't know). I know realistically I'd probably rather know and it will be good to just go in and get checked out and get an answer. Probably it's not a big deal, and especially because it was such a small amount of blood and only last a few minutes, I'm okay. But I know it could also be bad news too. I keep trying not to think about it, but every once in awhile I just cry thinking about it. I'm really hoping though it will be nice to have the reassurance that things are fine, and if nothing else, we get an extra scan in (I'm 11 weeks today, our first scan wasn't booked until 12 + 5). So anyway, sorry to be so depressing! I really don't want to be posting about this all over BnB until I know what's up, but I felt like I needed to tell someone. Any of you had this happen too?
Hope all you ladies are doing great. Thanks for listening. I just needed to write that all down somewhere. I'll post an update tomorrow after I get back.
Im one of three, got 2 younger brothers and I love it, My DH is an only child and it kind of sucks as he has alot of pressure from his parents (not saying all only children are like this) More the merrier I say!!!! lol Its was fun when we were younger growing up and playing, you might not have all the money in the world but you dont need it you make your own fun and if you get sick of playing with one sibling there as another to play with!!! lol
