Not the best way to spend a Saturday

I had a little scary incident yesterday and had to spend most of the day at Overlake Hospital. First let me say the baby seems to be fine and I feel fine. I was experiencing some bleeding on Saturday morning and called the OB on-call. He said I needed to go into Overlake Labor & Delivery to have them check it out and make sure the placenta wasn't detaching from the uterine wall, which can happen with a low-lying placenta. Needless to say, this isn't something you want to hear and I was pretty scared.

As soon as we got to the hospital they strapped on a fetal heart monitor and we got a healthy heartbeat from the baby, and he was moving around as normal, so that was all a good sign. A number of nurses attended to us and performed various evaluations. Since I wasn't having any pain or cramping, it didn't indicate the placenta was detached, but they wanted to get an UltraSound to see. So we had to wait about 2 hours to get transferred to the part of the hospital that does UltraSounds.

This whole time we were in a tiny room about the size of a walk-in closet with no tv or any other ammenities (no bathroom!) and just a small hard chair for Phil. Plus, they didn't want me to eat or drink anything, so by 3pm I was starving and cranky. Once we got in for the UltraSound, the first room they put us in was having techincal difficulties with the machine, so then we had to wait to be transferred to another room. Phil and I were getting really agitated. I think all this waiting is some kind of tactic hospitals use to deter people from ever wanting to come in to the hospital unless it is an absolute emergency!

The radiologist said everything looked good with the placenta, and in fact it's moved away from my cervix more than 2 cm, so that is good news for delivery. The annoying thing is after all that, they still couldn't determine why I was bleeding and basically just said to go home and take it easy.

I haven't had any bleeding today and I hope it continues to stay that way. I have a Dr. appt on Thursday so we'll see if she has anything else to say about it.

The good news is that the UltraSound showed the placenta is now far enough away from my cervix we shouldn't need to plan on a C-section, he is positioned head-down where it should be, and it is definitely a boy!