At the beginning of summer, I knew that I wanted to have another baby. I was looking into options, adoption being one of them. Although as you can see, that didn’t happen this time around. Despite the fact that I got pregnant fairly quickly, I haven’t ruled out the possibility of adopting or fostering a baby or even an older child in the future.
I’ve always wanted to be a mom, ever since I was little. I got pregnant with my oldest, when I was just 17 years old. Despite what people think, Keera was in fact a planned baby. The way that my pregnancy dates fell, I ended up having her when I was 18 years old.
Statically I am not a teen mom, but I do fall into the young mom category. My pregnancy with Zaden, and Emilee wasn’t planned but they are blessings none the less.
The first pregnancy test I took was on August 29th, around 3am I got a “Pregnant 1-2” result. Then I took another Clearblue digital test around lunch time, and it said the same thing. We had only been trying a few short weeks, and I was already pregnant.
“We’re going to have another baby!” was all that was going through my mind. I was over the moon excited.
That excitement quickly lead to fear, it’s the reason I didn’t mention my pregnancy right away. Unfortunately I can’t say right now why I had fear, because I can blog about my life. However I can’t blog about other people’s personal business, especially when they haven’t told anyone yet. The struggles of a blogger eh?
The day I took the pregnancy tests, I told two people. The father who was/is very excited, and my mom who was/is excited as well. I never posted anything about my pregnancy till now, because someone else had told us they were pregnant and I didn’t want to “steal their moment.”
I wanted to tell the kids about my pregnancy first, because I knew they would be thrilled about a baby sibling. Which was why I waited, in-case I had a miscarriage. I knew explaining something like that to them would be very difficult, so I waited.
Now that the cats-out-of-the-bag, and that everyone knows I’m pregnant. I should catch everyone up on, the chaos that’s been happening with this pregnancy.
My pregnancy was going fine, until September 27th. I started getting some spotting, followed by some mild cramping. According to my doctor, in early pregnancy some spotting, and cramping is considered “fine.” Unless it’s bright red heavy bleeding.
I wasn’t in panic mode until, I passed a small sized blood clot.
That was enough to make me go into the emergency room, where they did a pelvic exam and ran some blood tests. Going off the dates of my last period, they said I was around 8 weeks, 1 day pregnant. They were concerned, so they scheduled me for an ultrasound the next day. Everything on the ultrasound appeared normal, and I was free to go home.
Other than some very mild brown spotting, I had no reason to be concerned. That was until October 13th, which I would like to mention also happened to be Friday the 13th! Basing my dates off my last period, and not my actual ultrasound dating scan. I was around 13 weeks, 3 days pregnant.
I started bleeding bright red blood, filling pad after pad (the heavy over-night flow ones.) Terrified I went to the emergency room, and they kept me there till I stopped bleeding I then got to go home. I went back to the ER, on the 21st of October. The bleeding had started again, and I was soaking heavy flow pads.
The ER doctor scheduled me for an emergency ultrasound, I was expecting to be told the worst. I’ve never experienced bleeding like this, with my previous pregnancies. Shockingly they said the baby was healthy, and that the reason for the bleeding was because I’ve got a Subchorionic Hemorrage Hematoma (Subchorionic hematoma.)
Subchorionic Hemorrhage Hematoma, affects about 25% of women, in their first trimester of pregnancy. It’s where you’ve got a pool of blood, near the baby and it could cause a miscarriage. For a more in-depth information CLICK HERE.
Currently I’m freaking out, because I’ve never experienced this before.
The Emergency room doctor said that most of the time, our bodies will reabsorb the blood pool. Worse case I’ll have a miscarriage.. There’s not much that they can do. I’m really hoping that my body decides to reabsorb the blood, and that the bleeding stops soon.
On October 26th, the doctor sent me for another ultrasound so that they could measure the blood pool. The pool of blood, is 7cm in length. The silver-lining to the terrifying information is, the baby is moving a lot and looks healthy.
So that gives me hope, that everything will be okay. I’ve been scheduled for another ultrasound November 9th, since the bleeding hasn’t stopped yet. The doctors want to keep an eye on the little babe, and make sure that the Subchorionic Hematoma isn’t growing.
Google can be your best friend, or your worst enemy in situations like this. I wasn’t aware just how common bleeding is in pregnancy, even the doctors say it’s common. Which baffles me, I’ve had three pregnancies before this one, and I’ve never heard of this issue.
I think the issue here is, no one likes to discuss this. Whenever people think of blood, during pregnancy they think miscarriage right away. To be fair in some circumstances that is the end result, although that’s not always the case.
More people should be sharing their stories, there should be more conversations about this both the good and the bad. My best advice as well is, don’t trust everything you read on the internet, ask your doctor if you’ve got any concerns. Trust your body!