I just had the most stressful half hour of my life.
So we were walking to the reassurance scan appt and I already felt like I had QUITE a full bladder. And then kinda two minutes after we'd set off I felt a sort of gush, and then checked my jeans and I was bleeding. It wasn't all blood, it was fluidy, but jeepers I completely freaked out. I've not had even a spot since I got pregnant. But even when we got to the centre, I couldn't go to the loo and look because I couldn't wee and I knew that's all I'd want to do. So, they were running late. And I'm basically sitting there, blood on my jeans, thinking to myself, this is it. What stupid timing. I'll go in and there won't be a heartbeat and that'll be the end of it.
That wasn't the case in the end but is was a rough 20 minutes! We got to hear and see the heartbeat (157) and we got pictures and everything. My DP was freaking out excited but I was just, I don't know, I felt like I wanted to cry from the exhaustion of the past few minutes and I had a hard time feeling excited.
She did point out a sort of 'packet' of blood that she could see, she said it was probably the implantation bleed and if I hadn't had an implantation bleed (I hadn't), it might just be emerging now. So, that made me feel a bit better. She wasn't that concerned at all, so I'm trying not to be.
But yeah, could have done with less drama! But they say after you see/hear a heartbeat the chance of m/c is quite small right? So I'm just trying to calm down (still) and tell myself it's all good.
Sorry, that's my fairly long winded story! You can definitely bleed and still show a strong heartbeat. Trying to stay completely positive. Looking forward to hearing about other scans!