One week ago, Thursday, we found out that we're having a little girl! We went in for our ultrasound early in the morning. I barely slept the night before, but it was worth the tiredness the next day. I was so excited to know who was finally growing in my belly. We've had names picked out for years so we knew right away what her name was to be. I have a little Rebekah Elizabeth growing!
Now for the stressful part. In the midst of a lot of work stress - shutting down the summer and starting up the school year - I got a call from my doctor. They needed to see me as a follow up to my ultrasound and didn't want to wait until my appointment next Thursday. Okay...something must be up. After some phone tag with the doctors office I went in on Thursday for my appointment and got some possibly scary and stressful news. I have complete placenta previa. What that means is that where a woman's placenta would normally place itself at the upper back side of her uterus, mine has planted at the bottom and is completely covering my cervix. If I were to go into labor with it like that I could hemorrage and bleed to death and the baby could die. Not my idea of an ideal pregnancy here!
I'll go back in in a few weeks for another ultrasound. In the mean time, they're hoping that while my uterus grows to accomodate Bekah's growing little body (which is perfect and healthy) my placenta will move out of the way. Otherwise...I may be looking at bedrest and an early c-section delivery.
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