I am extremely thankful that this pregnancy has been very uneventful up until the third trimester. After the years of infertility and loss leading up to this point, my coping skills were just not not strong enough to deal with much else.
Unfortunately, there's been a bit of excitement and a few hospital visits over the last few weeks. The good news is that little Magnolia has had no issues and was not bothered at all by anything going on.
I got up to pee at 4am (as one does in the third trimester) on Sunday December 5th. I was 32.5 weeks pregnant. And I saw bright red blood... which is very scary to see when you're pregnant.
I woke up David and we went straight over to the ER after getting dressed. By 4:30am I was hooked up to monitors checking on both me and baby. I was extremely relieved to hear her heartbeat <3.
I was extremely stressed and had very high blood pressure. I couldn't feel them, but according to the monitor I was also having contractions every 3-4 minutes. They checked on Magnolia's position and she was still sideways, so they scared me by talking about possibly having to do a c-section within hours if my blood pressure didn't come down/ the bleeding didn't stop.
They gave me IV magnesium for both blood pressure and to help stop contractions. The medication made me feel sick and I felt awful for the rest of the long day. Not to mention that I wasn't allowed to eat for over 24 hours in case they needed to do a c-section and feeling terrified to have a premature baby... I was not happy.
Thankfully everything stabilized by nighttime. No more bleeding, normal blood pressure, and contractions slowed down. They kept me overnight to keep an eye on things but I was able to go home the next morning feeling very grateful to go home still pregnant.
Nothing happened the next week and a half besides having occasional contractions and frantically preparing as many baby things as possible that I hadn't gotten to yet. Until yesterday, December 14th. I felt an uncomfortable pressure feeling all night and then had bleeding at around 8pm. Back to the hospital we went!
After being checked out, the doctor saw that my cerclage was starting to rip out. The contractions I was having were putting pressure on my cervix and irritating the stitch. So it was time for it to come out.
I've been afraid of getting it taken out. It's put in with anesthesia but taken out without anything. It ended up being painful but pretty quick to get out so it wasn't too bad.
Again, they kept me in the hospital overnight to make sure the bleeding stopped and to see if I went into labor. That meant another night of no sleep, but nothing else exciting happened.
I was checked this morning and wasn't dilated at all, so I was once again allowed to go home still pregnant. I hit 35 weeks today, which is great! I feel much less stressed about having her early since I at least reached this point.
With the cerclage gone there is nothing holding her in, so I wouldn't be surprised if she arrives anytime now. It would be wonderful if she would flip the right way (she was head down yesterday and back to breech today), but after 5 years of waiting does it really matter?
I'm so so close to bringing home my baby... hoping that the next time I have to go to the hospital, I'm coming home with Magnolia!
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