My girlfriend is 6 weeks pregnant. She had a heavy bleed with clots Friday night and we both thought she had miscarried. We attended A&E for 7 hours and they ruled out an ectopic pregnancy and told us to get a scan to confirm the next morning.
We both went and it was probably one of the hardest things I've had to go through. However, upon the scan we were she hadn't miscarried and the pregnancy had actually progressed to the stage where there is a foetal heartbeat. A blood clot between the uterus and sac was diagnosed and we were told this sometimes resolves itself or it could potentially lead to miscarriage.
We are due to go back in 2 weeks for a follow up scan. The nurse suggested she get a 2 week sick note from work which my girlfriend refused to do. She claims this is because shes been off work recently and they are often very strict on sickness. Even though I explained that legally she is protected. She works as a receptionist so the nurse stated it was fine as long as it was a sit down job and she didnt do any heavy lifting etc. She was told to take it easy.
I don't feel that she is though. Shes going round the house tidying up, bending over to pick stuff up constantly and pretty much only having brief periods of sitting down. I can only conclude either she isn't bothered either way about the results of the pregnancy or she's in denial. I am stressing like mad here because she just isn't looking after herself like she should be. Am I being unreasonable?