I'm bleeding...

[BinahYeteirah]

I am accepting all prayers and sticky vibes.

:(

There's not much blood, so I'm hopeful, but it still stinks, yk?

[famousmockngbrd]

:1praying: :sticky

I'm sure you know that LOTS of women spot early in their pregnancies and go on to have perfectly healthy babies. But I know I'd be worried too. :hug

Are you going to see your OB/midwife about it?

[BinahYeteirah]

Yes, I know it can be normal to spot. :) I've bled in all 3 of my pregnancies. One resulted in my beautiful dd, the other in a m/c, and now this. I read online that 50% of women who bleed in early pregnancy go on to have healthy pregnancies. So I guess I have a 50/50 chance. I'm just not in a very good mind space since my m/c was about 4.5 months ago. Last time, I assumed everything was okay until I started cramping. Now, I'm assuming the worst. :(

I don't have a midwife or doctor since I just moved 3 months ago to a new country. I don't have insurance. I also don't have money, so I won't be going to see anyone until I have signs of something worse than the usual m/c (tubal, for example). There's nothing they can do anyway. In both my previous pregnancies, they just said to wait and to call if I was soaking more than one large pad per hour. I'd rather not be humiliated for no reason. Last time, I went to the ER, and I was examined by a male doc while blood was caked on my thighs. Then he tells me I'm a "threatened m/c" while he poked around inside. Of course, he couldn't do anything about it. This was in Japan, and I had to have my friend translate for me. I felt like a child, even though the doc was perfectly nice. Why bother? If I am going to miscarry, I'd rather do so in the privacy of my own home than deal with all that.

Anyway, I'm not trying to vent at you famousmockngbrd. I'm just sad and blabbering on. Thanks for all your prayers.

[Valérie.Qc]

:sticky

I'll share what I've learn in my Birth Attendant class :love

Small amount of brownish blood are not treatening - they are not painful and really light. They can be caused by sex, internal exam, constipation, sports or by lifting heavy things. It probably come from the cervix.

What I suggest is:
- take care of yourself :love
- talk to your baby : tell him that he's free to go if it's what he want, that you love him very much I wish he will stay but that you'll respect his choice if he's not ready. (you can do that with your DP - putting your 4 hands on your belly)

I know how it's hard, I've had an MC and the next pregnancy was stressful! But as you said, there is not much we can do. By speaking to your baby and expressing your desire and your respect of his freedom, it can be more peaceful. :hug

[Selissa]

oh no mama (((hugs))) I'll be thinking about you

[AugustLia23]

:hugs Binah, I hope everything stays put and that blood stops.

~Kailia

[rainbowmoon]

Binah just wanted to post some extra :hug and support here for you. it sounds like it may just be a common thing for you during pg. I agree you and your partner should try talking to your baby. anyway I am sending you positive vibes. I can't imagine what you are going through right now :hug

[MamanFrançaise]

:sticky :sticky

[mmgarda]

My heart goes out to you. I am adding you to my prayers today and sending you all kinds of good vibes and sticky dust.

Take care of yourself.

[famousmockngbrd]

Hey Binah - no worries about venting. :) I am so sorry you had such a humiliating experience with that doctor in Japan. Why do some doctors treat people like they are used cars? :irked: We do have feelings, ya know, it's not like you are back in anatomy class, buddy!

I hope you and the baby are well. I'm sending you all the positive energy I can muster.

:sticky

[Mindy70]

How are you feeling? I hope it went away! Sending sticky vibes your way. :)

[BinahYeteirah]

It stopped, but now it's back a bit. It's not really bleeding. There are just dark bits there when I wipe. Sometimes there is a bit of brown on the tp, but usually it's just the dark bits. :shrug


Thanks for thinking of me. It means a lot.

I will try to communicate with the babe. I don't know why, but usually don't feel any "vibes" from the baby until after 7 weeks pregnancy. I am just over 6 weeks now. I will try to find a quiet time to do this anyway.

I'm feeling calmer. I have no cramps or anything, so that is a good sign.



Re: my doc experience with the last m/c
The doc really was pretty nice, but he did rather annoy me when told me he wasn't sure if my baby was dead. They did a vaginal us, and said either my baby could be dead (no heartbeat), or I was 1 month less far along than I thought (around 5 weeks LMP rather than the 9 weeks LMP I knew I was). I told them, "I know the baby is dead because I got a positive pregnancy test over one month ago. Even if I am wrong about the O date I got while charting, it is impossible to get a positive pregnancy test before conception (duh!). I know I am far enough along to see the heartbeat, so I know that the baby is dead." I know he just didn't want to tell me that, "Yes, your baby is dead," when there was any chance he was wrong. (The fetal pole has to be over a certain length before they will dx fetal demise, because under that length it could be that it is too early to see the heartbeat, and my baby was just under that length, so he probably died fairly early in the pregnancy.) I guess ER experiences just aren't usually the best encounters one has with the medical profession. It wasn't even in a regular office, just in the labyrinth of curtains that they call the ER. Interesting cultural tidbit: In Japan, there is this curtain over the gynecological examination tables that goes over the woman's midsection. I wonder if people actually like to use it. If it is used, the woman cannot see what is happening while the doc is examining her. I went to another hospital the next day (not the ER) after I had had the m/c and they wanted to examine me again. They told me to undress and get onto the exam chair, but the "midsection" curtain was closed. So I opened the curtain. I had a towel to cover myself with, but I didn't want anyone looking at my butt or my hairy legs without me being able to look back, yk? I think the nurse though it was strange that I yanked open the curtain and she tried to close it again. It's weird, to me anyway! Can you imagine having your upper half on one side of a curtain and your naked lower half on the other? I wasn't having a c-sec (this isn't a "sterile field" or anything, lol), thank G-d, so I found it disturbing. I told the nurse I wanted it open, so she gestured "Okay." They had the same curtain in the ER. I think they asked me if I wanted it open or closed while they did the exam. I said I wanted it open. Interesting...

[Mindy70]

When I had the blighted ovum last December, I was dumb enough to do to the local ER just because of light spotting to get it checked out. I was also in CA visiting my folks. What a nightmare- the long wait, and then this awful terrible male nurse that called me "babe" and "honey" and "spread your legs, honey, and we'll stick that catheter right in there!" :irked: Had I insisted on a female nurse, the wait would have been even longer, and I had already been there three hours WITH dd and my mom.

Sorry about your experience, too. I really hope all goes well- when are you seeing a midwife or doctor?

[Ary99]

Binah,
I know how disconcerting any amount of blood can be during pg. I spotted a couple of weeks ago. It stopped, but I am left with the lingering concern of what if. I will keep you in prayers. Just know you are not going through this alone.

Peace~~~

Hilary

[BinahYeteirah]

When I had the blighted ovum last December, I was dumb enough to do to the local ER just because of light spotting to get it checked out. I was also in CA visiting my folks. What a nightmare- the long wait, and then this awful terrible male nurse that called me "babe" and "honey" and "spread your legs, honey, and we'll stick that catheter right in there!" :irked: Had I insisted on a female nurse, the wait would have been even longer, and I had already been there three hours WITH dd and my mom.

Sorry about your experience, too. I really hope all goes well- when are you seeing a midwife or doctor?

Sound like you had a horrible ER experience, too. A catheter? <shudder> I'm sorry you had to go through that.

I hope I won't be seeing a dr or midwife anytime soon. :)

[number572]

B.Y. ~ uggh... dark is usually okay though, hang in there mama.
sending very sticky vibes now ~*~*~* & a :hug

[Skim]

:hug
:Hug

Binah,
Sending you the stickiest, healthiest vibes from Wisconsin, US....

Hope you continue to feel well, and at peace.

-Kim

[Selissa]

Been thinking aobut you too mama (((hugs))) hope everything is going well and sticking fast

[rainbowmoon]

binah I'm so glad to hear the bleeding is subsiding. :hug :)

[mmgarda]

I was glad to read your bleeding was less. HOw are you feeling?

[Lucky Charm]

:hug :sticky

[Max's Mami]

I am so sorry you are having to deal with this but praying everything is fine. Also glad to hear the bleeding is less. Let us know how you are doing. :love

[BinahYeteirah]

Just to update for anyone who didn't read it elsewhere. ;)

The bleeding has stopped. :D :D :D

Thanks for all your support. :)




Return to your regularly scheduled due date board.

[Velvet005]

:LOL I'll get back to the May boards !!! Glad it stopped.

[alaska]

I just saw your first post for the first time and was happy to read the update :) Here's wishing everything continues to go well for you!

[BinahYeteirah]

I'm bleeding again. :(

More brown with a tiny bit of red. The reddish brown bit I only saw this morning, the rest is the same dull brown as before. I haven't do anything I can think of to irritate my cervix, although I have been doing some housework. I have heard lifting can cause spotting (did someone on this thread tell me that, too?), so maybe that is it. I couldn't stop myself, so I checked inside. I did it very, very gently. My cervix seems a little open, and when I pulled my finger out it had a brown clump on it. I suppose it could just be blood that collected there in my cervix. It seems like my cervix has more than one way of being open: a fertile HSO kind of open, and another type of open. I'm sorry it's hard to explain, but this is the other type of open. Sorry if this is TMI. I'm not feeling very hopeful again.

[ewe+lamb]

Moving can affect things - I am just 8 weeks now and a couple of weeks ago I moved our bed - I felt it all happen - I literally spent the rest of the next few days taking things really easy and not doing too much and it went away, then I was really really sick and it happened again and now it's stopped, anyway I really hope that everthing goes well for you, keep thinking of you.

[Mer]

Sorry this is happening to you. Hopefully it's just bleeding that a lot of us experience early on and you'll go on to have a healthy pregnancy. I'll be thinking of you. :hug

[Breathless Wonder]

What a roller coaster ride.

I'll be hoping that things turn out well for you.

[mmgarda]

I'm keeping my fingers rossed for you, honey. :sticky :sticky :sticky :sticky :sticky :sticky

[BinahYeteirah]

What a roller coaster ride.

Yes, this is the main thing! I hate not being sure what's going on. I'm not yet ready to get a scan just to make myself feel better, but it's hard not to know.

The bleeding stopped again, so I hope you are all right that this is just normal early pregnancy bleeding.

THANK YOU!!!

[AugustLia23]

Hi Binah,
I haven't been on too much lately, but wanted to let your know that I hope everything is going okay for you. Bleeding can be so scary, even when it is normal. I hope it stays away now.

[rainbowmoon]

how scary for you :hug

Binah I'm sure you already have heard this but in case not, your cervix is very vascular during pg. anything irritating it can cause some women to bleed. (ie;sex, internal exam,yeast infection) also some women just bleed,yk? my mom bled for months when she was pg w/ me.

anyway I hope the bleeding has stopped. I will be thinking of you.

[Jennifer3141]

Binah,
You are in my heart tonight.

Jen

[Selissa]

oh Binah...what a hard time for you mama (((hugs))) you are in my thoughts (((hugs)))