Saturday, January 16, 2010

Bloody Scare

I came home from work on Monday with some serious abdominal cramps. It hurt to stand, it hurt to sit, all I could do was lay fetal position. It felt like I had eaten a porcupine that was trying to make it's way out with a vengeance. I went to the bathroom and noticed that I was bleeding. I completely freaked out, I've been afraid of a miscarriage since day one, getting pregnant was just too good to be true. Skylar was incredible sweet and sensitive and took good care of me all night. The bleeding and the pain subsided after I took a long bath.
I was afraid to go right into work the next day, because I was still mortified about what might have happened.
I called the doctor and they asked me to come in and do a blood test to see if all my hormone levels were normal.
The doctor's office called back the next day (which quite impressed us because at our previous doctor, we had to call them to get our lab results, and it was still like pulling teeth to get information, ridiculous). The nurse said that my HCG was very high and healthy, and the doctor wanted me to come in for an ultrasound, and that we should be able to "see good things". We set my ultrasound date for a week and a half later, because that's the soonest they had available that coordinated with Skylar's school schedule. They called back about an hour later and said that the doctor wanted my ultrasound done immediately, so they made an available time slot the next day.
Again, I am super impressed with this doctor office.