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Thursday, May 03, 2007

Subchrionic hemorrhage?

This is what I was diagnosed with via ultrasound on Monday April 30th, after I awoke at 2:30 in the morning with a gush of blood. I thought I was loosing the baby so naturally I was a nervous wreck. My midwife scheduled an ultrasound later that morning which revealed a very healthy 11wk 1 day old fetus, (which put me alittle farther along then expected) with a strong h/b of 167 bpm. We were very pleased to see our baby moving around and nowhere near fetal demise. The cause of the bleed was a subchrionic hemorrhage which basically means a blood vessel ruptured putting an 8cm by 5cm gap between the placenta and uterine wall, which is wear it is supposed to attach itself. The good news is that this is a very common occurance in pregnant women and since my body went to work right away and clotted, I didn't loose that much blood and now the placenta can reattach itself and absorb the blood clot that formed. It may take a few weeks to months to completely heal so I have been ordered light duty, no pulling, pushing or lifting until I heal. I go in for a repeat ultrasound in 4 weeks to make sure my body is healing properly. I haven't had any bleeding since then so I guess that is good news for me. If I where further along in the pregnancy my diagnosis would have been placental abruption. I am praying that doesn't happen which could lead to preterm labor. I know that God has his hands around me and I am feeling all the prayers on my behalf. Here is the u/s pic of our little peanut #5.






5 comments:

Choppzs said...

How scary that must have been for you! You and the little one are in my thoughts and prayers!!!

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Amie said...

You did a great job condensing all the info into an explanation.

Praying for you and little peanut.

Jill Corwin said...

How scary! The same thing happened to me when I was pregnant with Cole..I was about 14 weeks, and he was born full term and healthy! I am glad you are both doing well now. :)

andria said...

I had that with my first child...it's very scary.

I will be praying for you. How I would love a fifth child.

Jeska said...

OMG, I didn't know you were expecting. congratulations!