Apparently movies about vampires cause internal bleeding...

Sunday night, after watching the final Twilight movie, Matt and I stopped at my parents to drop off a refrigerator for the junk guy. I went into the the bathroom and noticed there was A LOT of blood and clots. So I freaked out of course, and went the the ER scared that I was losing one or both of the babies.

They admitted me, got me in the gown, checked my vitals and got me to drinking water for the ultrasound tech to do an external ultrasound and then an internal ultrasound. I am crying and worried, and I am bleeding everywhere. We went the the ultrasound room and he got me ready and when I went to sit down, it was like a flood gate was opened, it was all over the floor and the bed. It was horrible and humiliating and I just knew that everything was over then. I just waited for the inevitable bad news. I have never had that much bleeding except for when I had the miscarriage.

The tech gets me cleaned up and does the external first. He can't see much of the babies since I am not very far along, just the sacs. Then he goes to do the internal (warning me that it will of course, bleed a lot more after) and I am shaking and breathing in short gasping breaths, I thought they were going to have to sedate me. He got in there and looked and both babies heartbeats were good! We had 173 and 178 and they were both dancing. We got to see their heartbeats and hear them which was like music.

So they wheeled me back to my room and was made ready for the gyno exam as well. The Dr checked and my uterus was closed which is a good sign. If it was open that would mean that a miscarriage is pending. So he left to review my charts and basically said that I was in the threatened miscarriage category. That I needed to stay home for the next few days and put my feet up and that the babies have an 80/20 chance of survival. He thinks the blood loss was from the hemotoma, which was 27x14 and they measured it again at 8 x 5. So it basically went from a medium hemotoma to a small one.

It was so scary. I just wish I could be normal with a normal pregnancy. I should buck up, I know, because a lot of people can't have children and I am pregnant with two. It is just these ups and downs all the time that are really getting to me. I will feel better once the hemotoma is gone for good.

Love,
Krista