This is SCARY!

So this past Monday I was baking surprise cookies for Amanda and Christy. I'd frosted them in pink and blue, and then written "BABY" and "Boy?" and "Girl?" and "3.4.11" on them. My plan was to take the cookies to them, and they'd take one look and be like "What are these?" and I'd smile, and they'd scream, and get really excited. (As it turns out, they didn't react quite like this, but more on that later.)

I ran to the bathroom to pee for the 47th time that day, as pregnant women do, and saw that I was bleeding. I ran and grabbed Brian, and immediately started calling the Dr. Brian, not knowing what to do, grabbed the book that the doctor's office had given us the week before and looked up bleeding. (Of course, the book told him that the #1 cause of bleeding when you're pregnant is miscarriage. He shut the book and did not mention this to me.) I finally got a hold of the answering service for the Dr.'s office, and told them what was going on. They said they would page the Dr. and have her call me back.

I crawled into bed because I couldn't think of anything else to do. I laid there while Brian rubbed my back and I thought the worse. Finally, I couldn't just keep thinking about what was happening, so I asked Brian to turn on the TV. He got me to eat about 40 minutes later. The on-call Dr. called me about 1 hr and 15 minutes after I'd called them (apparently they'd had some pager issues) and told me that I could either go to the ER or wait to come into their office the next day for a sonogram. She told me that about 50% of the women who have bleeding during pregnancy go on to have completely normal and healthy pregnancies. I truly didn't know this, so I was somewhat relieved. Brian kept saying that "We don't know what we don't know."

I finally fell asleep after talking to the Dr., once we'd decided to wait until the next morning to go to the doctor's office and get a sonogram there.

We scheduled a sonogram for 12:30pm that next day, and I was so nervous once we got there. I kept asking Brian to pray. I kept having to remind myself that whatever happened, God had a good and perfect plan. The tech started the sonogram and we saw immediately the little bean. She zoomed in and we saw the little heart, just flickering away. We heard the heartbeat, and saw that the growth was exactly on track.

Once we'd seen that everything was okay with the bean, the tech started to look for a reason for the bleeding. Turns out I have a bruise on my uterus, which basically presents like a clot of blood. Your body will either shed it or reabsorb it, and my body just shed it. Not a big deal at all!! We were able to talk with the Dr. about the difference between scary bleeding and non-scary bleeding (which I wish we'd talked about before, but whatever.)

So all is okay! Until then, I hadn't thought about loosing this little miracle. We continue to be in awe of what God's entrusted us with. Simply amazing!