Scare

Today has been a bit of a roller coaster. It started as any normal day except my sweet man got up with Ella. This NEVER happens. He sleeps right on through her knocking on the door. So I got to sleep in. It was awesome. I then got up, ate some breakfast and Andrew agreed to wait a little to go into work so I could shower all by myself. Awesome again. Unfortunately, in the process of getting ready for showering I noticed a little blood. I checked some more and sure enough, I was spotting. I hadn't had any different pain but had had the usual ligaments pain. But of course, spotting is never good and I knew it wasn't due to intercourse because it's been a few days. So I'm thinking, I've had cramps and am so used to ligament pain that I didn't realize it. I showered anyway to try and calm down and then promptly went and got my phone. Andrew may not understand me but he could tell I was upset. So I told him why while trying not to break into tears and really freak him out.
So I called the Dr's and they got me in this morning at 11:30. My blood pressure was higher than normal but not high. I generally sit at about 100/? but today I was at 110/60. Woohoo for stressing. So still, nothing to worry about. The dr. then came in and we checked the heartbeat. He found it pretty quickly which was a relief. And it sounded just fine. He then explained that what I probably had was a placental abruption. So basically a bit of the placenta rips away from the uterus and can cause you to bleed. He pulled out his ultra sound machine (no we couldn't tell sex. His machine's not that great) and we checked out baby. So I did get to see my baby today. That was fun. The heart was beatin' away and babe looked healthy. He checked my fluid and there's plenty surrounding the baby and the placenta wall is good. Any abruption was small enough that we couldn't see it.
Dr. Firth was so sweet. After all was checked and confirmed ok he assigned me to uterine bed rest (no intercourse, running, etc.) He informed us that he had been really worried about me when he found out we were coming in. He then made sure we remembered where he lived and had his home phone so that if the bleeding got worse we could get ahold of him. I really feel blessed to have a dr. that cares enough to worry about me. It was a difficult and scary morning but it has reminded me of the things I am grateful for that I sometimes take for granted.
Our 20 week appointment is still scheduled for a week from now. Hopefully by then everything's back to normal.