On Saturday, April 13th, Adam and I were just hanging out at home, when I suddenly had a HUGE gush of blood. (I've never bled so much in my life before. It was a LOT of blood.) We quickly hurried to get in the car to go to the hospital because we knew this could be really bad for the babies. En route, I called Mountain View Hospital Labor and Delivery to tell them what was up; they told me that since I was only 33.5 weeks along, I should go to Utah Valley Hospital instead, since the NICU at MVH can't handle babies younger than 35 weeks old. They called my doctor to see what he thought and he agreed that we needed to go to Utah Valley. So, we headed to Utah Valley instead (despite the fact that our insurance doesn't cover it), where they got me and the babies hooked up to monitors and had the NICU on alert in case the babies decided they were going to be born.
The bleeding stopped, the babies had strong heart rates, and I was not having contractions, which were all good signs. Just in case, they gave me a shot that would promote lung development in the babies and kept us at the hospital overnight. (This was actually my first stay in a hospital since I was a newborn, so that was kinda weird. Luckily, Adam got to stay, too, although neither of us slept so well.)
In the morning, my doctor stopped by and told us I could go home but that other than doctor's appointments, I was consigned to bed rest. So...the couch and I are going to be good friends, I guess.
We had two doctors appointments today; first, we went to the hospital to do a non-stress test, which is basically what they did all night when I was at the hospital: they hook each of the babies and me up to a monitor check their heart rates and see if I'm having contractions. Heart rates are good; my "contractions" are barely there, rare, and not something I can actually feel at this point.
Then we went over to my ob/gyn's office, and he did an ultrasound. What he found was that the bleeding was caused by the uterus stretching and pulling one of the placentas with it. Well, it happened to be the placentas that was causing my marginal placenta previa...and it pulled in the right direction, meaning away from the cervix...which means, maybe, possibly, there's a slight chance we might not have to have a c-section. We'll do some follow up ultrasounds in the next couple weeks to see...but here's hoping that all of that bleeding was just the Lord's way of helping us not to have to have a c-section.
