Update - First (emergency) OB Visit
My blog was visited 20+ times after I wrote the previous post. And yet only two loving ladies cared enough to say a word of support and encouragement. Two. That is very sad. And hurtful. And wrong.
I will vent more about this on another post on another day.
. . .
After waiting 50 minutes in the office lobby, watching a bazillion hugely pregnant woman get called in and then come out, we (hubby & I) were finally called into the “little office”.
Wait another 20 minutes for the nurse practioner to show up.
She asked a bunch of questions regarding my medical/pregnancy history plus any and all other relavant info (I’ve not met her before) for another 15-20 minutes.
In the ultrasound room, she fiddled around with the pickle wand for 10-15 minutes and declared there is a vanishing twin (!!!!!), hence the bleeding. But she was not 100% sure and could not get a clear view of the fetal pole(s), so she wanted to discuss with and ask for my OB’s expertise.
We wait in the semi dark room. Didn’t know what to talk about. Long silence. 15 minutes goes by. It is now way past noon.
“I’m starving. Do you have any snacks?”
“No.”
“Well, can you go find out if there’s a vending machine, and please get me something?”
Off he goes.
Not even a minute went by, the OB came in, with the nurse practioner. OB positions pickle in me, we saw a baby. And a heartbeat!!! (Then enters hubby to the rescue with food & water) So we go over the baby and the heartbeat again. It was very nice indeed. One baby. Our baby!
And, there’s subchorionic hemorrhaging, he said. It’s the same size as the gestational sac, which is why the nurse practitioner thought it was “vanishing twins syndrome”. I think. I guess subchorionic hemotoma is the same thing?
There’s a 50% chance that I would have a healthy baby. The same chance for a miscarriage.
I will continue to bleed on/off for 1-4 weeks. On my Jan25 appointment they will do another ultrasound. That is, if the baby doesn’t come out before then.
I’m so scared.