6TH NOVEMBER 2009
We got the pregnancy confirmed and we’re having our first ultrasound next Friday. I’m unable to give the date of my last menstrual period because I went off the pill, then had a long string of about five periods with like two days between each, then they just stopped. And I can’t really remember how long ago they stopped, but it was some time in late September. I don’t know whether they stopped because I fell pregnant, or just because being off the pill made me irregular. But anyway we’ll find out on Friday!
10TH NOVEMBER 2009
I spent eight hours in hospital last night because I started bleeding; I had a moderately heavy gush of bright red blood when I was on the loo and I’ve been spotting a brownish menstrual-like blood ever since.
They took blood, vaginal swabs and did some poking around of my abdomen/privates and ultrasounds. They told me it was either an ectopic pregnancy, a threatened miscarriage or a blighted ovum. My HCG levels of 15000 indicated that it probably wasn’t an ectopic pregnancy (if it was, my levels probably wouldn’t rise above 9000). The ultrasound showed an intact gestational sac, but I had recently voided my bladder for a urine sample so the ultrasound wasn’t very clear and the obstetrician had difficulty locating the embryo. He did get one snap of some tiny white thing inside the sac which appeared briefly when he pushed down hard in certain spots, which was apparently it. My cervix was also closed which was a positive sign (if it were open, the miscarriage would then have become inevitable).
So the obgyn diagnosed it as a threatened miscarriage (50% continue as normal pregnancies) and organized for me to have more blood drawn to check my HCG levels again and then have a transvaginal ultrasound first thing tomorrow morning. I’m having no pain whatsoever, just spotting of a dark brownish colour.
I have a serious phobia of veins though. They had to use EMLA cream and Entonox before I’d let them even put the tourniquet on for the blood test. They were pretty cold with me actually, I think they thought I was an ex-junkie or something. Either that or they were just pissed off that I was a 20 year old mother-to-be who carried on like a pork chop over a blood test. I’m dreading tomorrow; they better be ready to gas me again because they’ve got buckley’s hope of me letting them do it without it. I know it’s ridiculous but it feels physically impossible, I KNOW I’ll reflexively yank my arm away as soon as I feel anything and I’ll end up with a needle all up in my muscle or something.
I hope everything’s okay. I’m really trying to think positive but with everything that’s happened lately, it’s so hard. But I’m sure everything will be fine.
Oh…I felt uncomfortable going into Emergency for it, but after seeing what some other people were in there for I have no worries whatsoever. One girl had drank too much coffee and wanted her blood pressure taken, and another girl had done “two pregnancy tests which came out positive, and another two that came out negative” and wanted an “emergency confirmation”. Wtf woman!
