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Hi, my name is erma and i work as a nurse and like you guys i was Dx w/ sc bleeding last jan 28, 2006 at my 7 week of pregnancy. I dnt think it did help that much that i am a nurse and being in this situation, mine you i was worried day and night. It started sat. midmorning of 1/28/06, i was still in bed when i felt a gush of warm fluid three times and i was half aslept half awake, so i thought i peed myself, i decided to go the br to checked it out, and there i was bleeding with darkred fresh blood, i screamed for my husband to come to the br ans showed him my soaked underwear and of course it freaked him out too, considering this is our first pregnancy after 3 months of clomid treatment and 4 years of waiting and trying naturally. At that moment i was sure i was having miscarriage but in the back of my mine this is not happening. Considering it was a sat. my regular clinic was closed so we ended up going to our urgent clinic, and the doctor was compa__sionate enough to comfort me that i should not be crying bec. we did not know the cause of the bleeding yet. he had my blood drawn for quant_tative hcg to check for ectopic preg. and he sent me to the hospital where i work at for a stat u/s, and again frustrating enough that they only have one ultrasonographer we have to wait for almost three hours which is adding up to my anxoiusness. As sonographer was doing the u/s and they are train not to say a word and the doctor will tell you the result, that was another 30 mins. of waiting for the u/s result. But the moment i saw the u/s screen and she was putting hb per min , i was sure that my baby is fine, but i was puzzled when she asked me to hold my breath twice, and there we were when the doctor called and said congratulations your having twins!!!! my husband and i was so happy and the doctor adviced me to be on bedrest and that i need to see him again on mon to discuss further the u/s result. i saw him that mon and considering he is an im doctor not a ob-gyne he wanted me to see my ob but for now be on strict bedrest, the bleed was on my right side measuring 4 cm x 3.2 cm. I finally saw my ob almost a week after the incident and good thing he agreed with what the other doctor said, but otherwise they weren't too concern about it that i was disappointed when i was trying to set-up an appt. that monday to see my ob and i was able to talked to his P.A which is a Nurse practioner, which she bluntly blurted out " we dont usually advice bedrest w/ these cases, coz we dont think it will help stop the bleeding but it will just make the bleeding lighter coz it the blood will just pooled in your v____al cavity, but i did not listen to her anyways, the only thing she said that helped was 90% of these cases will make it to full term and healthy pregnancy. I am a bit feeling helpless and down while waiting for my ob to come back from his vacation that week so he got see me and i could ask him more questions and concerns that i have. Unfortunately he just repeated everything that his PA said except for the bedrest part. I needed to convinced him to put me on light duty coz i do work in an ortho floor that lifting is amust everyday. So i finally went back to work on 2/13/06, just to be sent home by my nurse manager coz she did not thought that it would be a problem for me working on any floor w/ my 20lbs. restriction lifting. I decided to wait for her that day coz she was in a meeting and i sat down with her, she was not hopefull at first that she could find me a job that will not require lifting. i finally suggested to her that i could be trained and work as a health unit coordinator consedering my knowledge on medical terms. so the next day i started training and was able to work til 2/15/06, but when my husband fetched me from work that n ight, at midnight when we got home the moment i got out of the car i felt a gush of warm fluid and i was sure it was blood this time. I tried to make it to the br, but felt it running through my left thigh, wash my self up, the bleeding was more and bright red this time. I put my self to bedrest right away and asked my husband if we could have dinner in bed. i decided to not tell him coz it might panicked him and sleep through the night. I went o bed at around 2 am, trying to convinced myself that my babies are fine, went to br 3x that night, still spotting w/ bright red blood everytime. I woke up at 6am, waited til 8am to call my clinic, no return call so i called again at 10:30 am, they wanted me to go there right away coz my ob will be there just until 11:30 am, there was no point arguing with them that time how come they did not call me back right away after receiving my phone message which by the way i left with a live receptionist. anyways, 2/16/06 at 11am i had my 2nd u/s w/ my husband on my side, i felt a tears of joy coming down my eyes when i saw my babies moving, hr is normal and the other one was jumping around. the sc bleeding measures 3.6 cm this time and the doctor told me that he still see some bleeding that it will come out on the following days. so he did adviced me to be on bedrest/house rest for 2 weeks again. I am sched for next u/s on 3/10/06, i am 11 weeks at present, and like you guys, i am living my life day by day, still have some spotting here and there, but try to tell your self as my doctor told me, the bleeding is coming from you not from the babies. I am just so bless that my babies are survivors and i have a very loving husband. he does everything for me right now since i am on bedrest. i pray and thank god every night that another had come and my babies are still growing, worries are fine but dont let it take over you. we are just hoping that on the next u/s the bleeding is gone and that my babies are doing great. GOODLUCK to all of us, eat, drink healthy, and really do beleive in god and miracle.
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