Pregnancy: Week 5
Hi Everyone!
I'm 6 weeks pregnant today. (Yay!)
There's been some drama around here this past week.
I started bleeding bright red on Sunday, not a lot, but not a little, either. My clinic told me to get in bed and spend the rest of the day there.
The next day, talking with my nurse, she said there is a clot that forms with implantation and she thought the bleeding was from that clot and that the baby was fine, but did ask me to get a rhogam shot (I guess in case the baby's blood was mingling with mine...I'm a negative blood type). I don't officially have an OB here yet so got sent to the ER for the shot, and they didn't just want to give me a shot (understandable) so they did their own evaluation, including an HCG level, which came back good (meaning the baby is fine).
Anyway, everything has been OK since then, so just assuming everything really is OK. I have an ultrasound on Monday, that'll be good.
Feeling a little detached about the whole pregnancy, which I'm sure is just my way of protecting myself in case something goes wrong.
Physically feeling fine, except for some nausea the day I was in the ER and skipped lunch (I was there 4 hours...clearly I was not an emergency...everyone was very nice, though.)
(Oh, and in the past I have had serious PTSD freak-outs having to go anywhere near an ER because of the way my brother died and what happened with me in the ER in relation to that, but that seems to have gone away...grateful for that...)
Have gained 8 lbs with the fertility drugs so am already struggling with what to wear, although I have saved all my various sizes of jeans, bras, etc over the past few years as I have gone up and down in weight with pregnancies...just need to get the right set of stuff in my closet.
So all is well (I think). Will report back with news from the OB on Monday. :)
XOXO
