9 weeks 2 days
Sorry I haven’t been updating much. I’m just sicker than anything and tired and stressed. I don’t want to post and gripe about how awful I feel and hurt the feelings of those whom I know would kill to be in my shoes (or my queasiness, I suppose). But let me post my disclaimers that (1) everyday I am thankful for the miracles we’ve been given and (2) this post will contain a lot of complaining about how I feel right now.
So let’s see… Wednesday, I was getting ready to run to Rite-Aid to pick up my Zofran. Zofran is an anti-nausea drug that they give to chemo patients. Well, it was almost 5 pm and I decided to pee before I left. I peed and when I wiped, I saw red blood. Panic mode set in and I knew Dr. M was gone for the day (office closes at 4:30 pm) so I called Dr. B, the RE’s office.
I was instructed to do 1 cc of Progesterone in Oil (PIO) and then my regular 1 cc that night. If I saw red again the next day, do 1 cc immediately, and the other at night again and continue as necessary. They also said it’s “probably nothing”.
I called Skip and told him and then went to lay down. I brought my laptop and started reading more abut spotting in pregnancy and came across something saying that an Rh- mother who is pregnant with the baby of an Rh+ father should have her Rhogam shot right away if she is bleeding or spotting in pregnancy.
For a quick lesson in Rhogam, basically, a mother with Rh- blood, should she have a baby with Rh+ blood (possible only if the father is Rh+) and should their blood somehow mix, the mother could develop antibodies to the baby and essentially attack the pregnancy. Here I am, spotting for 3+ weeks and no one had suggested the Rhogam. Nice. I called and left the OB a voicemail.The next day, my RE’s office called at 9 am to check on me (awwww) and I waited and waited for the OB to call. I was again wondering WHY I was still giving Dr. M’s office a chance and about to call a different OB when his office called me back. Yes, I needed the Rhogam.
I then asked the nurse abut why they just don’t seem to care to see me for all this spotting, etc and was basically told that my pregnancy has been deemed viable (because of seeing the heartbeats on ultrasound) and that it could be many different reasons I was spotting. I pressed on and asked if there could be so many reasons, why didn’t they care to investigate to see why and the poor nurse didn’t seem to know. I realize they just do what is standard, but I pushed enough that she put me on hold and when she came back, she said if Dr. M could sneak in for a moment when I came for the Rhogam, he’d do a quick u/s.
I had to go to the hospital at 12:30 pm to have a blood draw to see if I had already built up antibodies (and we hope the answer is NO — no call means it must have been negative) and then Calista and I had lunch with Skip then spent time at the park as we killed time until out 3:30 pm appointment for the shot.
When I got there, Dr. M saw me first and I did get the u/s. Both babies are fine and he sees no reason for the bleeding at this time. We talked a bit and then the nurse gave me my shot.
Since then, I’ve been using the doppler to listen to their heartbeats every night and trying to remain calm about the spotting. It’s disconcerting to have to wear more pads now than before I was pregnant, but as long as I hear those heartbeats every night, I’ll deal with it.
Other than that, it’s the morning sickness, which in my case is all day queasiness with night time really-sickness and sometimes vomiting. My stupid insurance only covers 9 Zofram pills every 21 days so I break them in half and only take one a day and only if I really need it. I took one on Friday and promptly threw it up. I was so upset — I might as well been burning money.
Anyhow, that’s it. I’m here, I’m spotting and I’m sick. And despite it all, life is good.
