..and I'm no exception. After 2 miscarriages, even a spot of blood is enough to send me over the edge.
Saturday night I had some beige colored CM. I figured it was just a product of my progesterone. Sunday morning, I woke up with pink spotting on the toilet paper. I freaked. I burst into tears and came downstairs to tell Chop. It was off and on spotting all day, and then my left side started hurting again. I spent all day laying down, my hips started hurting. I thought the worst, and was pretty much a sad mess. I napped, watched TV and read a book all day--what a waste of a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
Monday morning, I woke up and had 2 red spots on the toilet paper. I immediately called my doctor and asked what to do. The nurse gave me a 9am appointment with the midwife. When I got there, I thought for sure my blood pressure was going to be through the roof again. It's been routinely 14x/9x. That's very high for me, I'm usually 110/76. The nurse took my blood pressure with the auto one and it was only 134/87. I was shocked it could be so low when I'm such a wreck. She did it manually and it was 122/83. Even better!
The midwife did a vaginal exam, and said when she neared my cervix to check and bumped it- it started to bleed. She thinks that is where the spotting is coming from. She said it just looks irritated and barely bumping it caused it to bleed. My cervix looks to be closed (didn't feel it because it's already irritated). She also took a swab because of the beige colored 'gunk' she found floating around- thinks it may be a yeast infection from the progesterone. She said the progesterone could be contributing to the irritation as well, or maybe just the act of stuffing them up there is bumping the cervix.
I'm supposed to rest, take it easy, no sex until the spotting is gone (I havent had sex since ovulation anyway, so no issue there). Of course, go back if I start bleeding heavily and not just on the TP when I wipe.
I'm still praying this little gummi bear is doing ok. The midwife felt confident that baby was ok and I didn't need another ultrasound since I just had one on Thursday. I can only hope she's right, and that the ultrasound could have also irritated the cervix.
Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers, they are greatly appreciated. I'm sorry I'm such a wreck, I just can't handle going through another miscarriage- especially after it's taken us so long to get this far.
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