I'm 32 years old, recently married and my husband and I conceived a baby on our first try. How excited were we;,studies show it takes up to 6 months to have a baby and our first child proved the studies wrong.
On 4/28/02 I had my first episode of some brown spotting. Called the doctor the next day she wanted to see me right away...at that time I was only going into the 5th week. We went to the doctors and just saw an empty sac too early to tell so we go back 5 days later then walla a life form beginning. Two weeks later another vaginal u/s and walla the heart is beating. No bleeding since the first episode. Dr said it was the causes of possible implantation stages and so on.
Week 11 it's June 3 and I'm driving to work and walla dead stop in traffic a man who works for the same company as I do, decides not to stop and hits me from behind. Slight fender bender no big deal. Day 2 June 4 I go to work, normal day as always..and I decided to leave early because I was not feeling to great. My pregnancy so far...I'm feeling great..just a little stressed and only had morning sickness on 4/27 and mothers day (how appropriate). So I leave an hour early do some shopping and at my last stop in Bed Bath Beyond I felt a dull ache something told me to go home. So I'm about 4 miles from home sitting at a traffic light and what felt like a gas pain at one second turned to a gush! I thought to myself my gosh did I just pee myself!
I looked down and saw a pool of blood, called my husband right away and we went to the ER. My doctor is an hour away because before we got married I never changed my obgyn because I just ador her and when we got pregnant we figured we would stick with her and just drive the 30 miles to the hospital to deliver and when we get closer to the due date I would just stay at my parents house and he can meet me at the hosptial.
Every time I stood up, I felt this gush come out. We are panicing with the thought of we may lose this precious little one. Once in the ER, the bleeding felt like it had subsided, there were just a few gushes, they told me they had seen worse. So I am grateful but still scared. I was wheeled off to the u/s, and we saw our little tyke doing flips and boucing around! We are so excited, 163 bpm and we know we've got a strong one! The ER doctor came in to tell me I have a small subchorionic hematoma and it's near the placenta. We go home that night with strict instructions...bed rest and pelvic rest!
June 5-8 no bleeding at all...until late that night some spotting. So I just thought okay I need to take it easy. June 9-11 all okay just slight light brown discharge.
June 12, 13, and 14(today) not so good. Thank god I found your website this week! I passed a big clot on the 12th but had brown blood, remembered the doctor said to me that this would probably happen. Went away till last night the 13th then walla another clot is what it looked like this time I have red brown blood..and no cramping.is this normal???? My spotting is getting heavier than usual. But no heavy bleeding, I can get away with wearing a pantyliner so I guess I should be thankful.
So now we are at the point where we just sit and wait. I am taking it very easy, all I do is recline myself on the sofa or lay in bed. My husband and both families have been a huge help.
My next appt is July 12th so I will know more then. As of now I'm still spotting, scared and depressed. But now that I found your website and can talk to others I feel very good right now.
Thank you for starting a wonderful website...I will be in touch.
~ Marie
