Last Night

Okay...so...we had a bit of a frightening evening. I want to start by saying that Roger, our baby, and I are all okay.

It started Saturday with a bit of bleeding...it was bright red and scared me a bit, but it seemed to taper off and stop by that evening. So, I decided to take it a bit easier on Sunday by not going anywhere, just staying home, and putting all the stuff back together that I'd washed. By about 11pm I had a pretty big scare by seeing the bleeding again, more of it, and some other things that I don't wish to go into too much detail. I freaked out, but called Dr.S before I just ran to the ER. She called me back almost immediately and told me to go.

We were there about 3 1/2 hours. They gave me lots of fluids, they took blood, urine, and a sonogram. The doctor told me that the blood didn't seem to be coming from my cervix, that baby is doing great, and I'm just one of those special cases that has bleeding while pregnant and could have it throughout the entire pregnancy. They don't know why, but some women just continue to bleed around the time of when they would have had a cycle. I hadn't seen anything like that to date, before it was just barely light pink, but I hope to not see it again...but maybe I'll be a bit more prepared if it happens again.

I was never so happy to see my baby moving around, super active, and it's little heart just beating away. If nothing else hit home for me that I am going to be a mommy, that did it for me. Being so worried about the thought of not being able to see baby moving, and the great relief that washed through my entire body when I did....I can't really explain it.

The doctor tried to see the sex, and we got to see a little bottom...but it was gone in 2 seconds. "Oh, there was the bottom," he said. "Oh, there was a little hand." It was amazing.

So today, I literally did take it easy. I stayed in bed until lunch time, ate my lunch, then sat in the recliner or laid on the couch doing absolutely nothing...if that is what it will take to keep baby in as long as possible, I would do it every day.