12 weeks and slight scare in Life as a Mom of 2 boys.....and a girl!!

Last Monday when I turned 11 weeks exactly I noticed a bit of pink on my toilet paper when I went to wipe around lunch time and I was like OMG WTF? I have never had any kind of bleeding or spotting before while pregnant so I had no idea what was going on or what I should do. I waited it out and relaxed at the advice of some friends. However, a couple of hours later when I went to the bathroom I started bleeding what looked like a regular period. I started crying, slapped a pad on, woke up Miles and drove myself to the ER. I had no idea how much I was bleeding or what but I knew some people go to the ER for that so I did.

7.5 hours later (my parents, Mike and Cody came during that looooooooong wait) we got to see the baby kicking away happily with a quick ultrasound. I was so relieved. I am a positive person and was thinking everything should be ok since the bleeding actually wasn’t very much (it maybe filled 1/4 of a pad, maybe not even that) but I was still worried the whole time. Of course I had to go on one of the busiest days the ER has ever seen. Ugh. So anyways, the doctor said it happens sometimes to lots of women and everything turns out fine. He said it doesn’t mean that I’m not going to lose the baby and it doesn’t mean I will but he said tons of women have one or two bleeds and then go on to have their babies.

That was a week ago and I haven’t bled since. I had an ultrasound on Thursday actually and the baby looks wonderful. He/she is measuring one day ahead so due April 17th. Although I’m not really going to change my original due date based on that. We got some cute, standard 12 week pictures and it was all good. I’m so relieved because I know the chances of miscarriage drop by a TON now that I’ve seen the baby on the ultrasound and since I’m 12 weeks.

I booked my gender ultrasound today and it’s not til 20 weeks!!

Oh and Sunday morning I woke up and all of a sudden I had a baby belly lol. Seriously it was so weird because Saturday I didn’t look pregnant in a regular t-shirt and Sunday I did. That can happen when you’ve had a baby before. At some point your body just goes POP and out comes the belly. I’m still getting used to it lol.

Last updated October 08, 2015