Hi all! I'm new here, pregnant with our first baby, and am looking for women who are also experiencing difficult pregnancies, or, like me, have been prescribed bed rest.
I am in my second trimester (19 weeks) at the moment and two weeks ago had to be rushed to the hospital due to blood loss and a suspected amniotic fluid leak. Fortunately baby stayed where it was, but an ultrasound showed that my placenta is currently covering the cervix, and this caused the blood loss. I again experienced heavy bleeding a few days after that first terrifying night, and then had some spotting for the next week or so. It seems to have finally stopped, but I also have a very irritable uterus and lots of Braxton Hicks contractions, which means I've been put on bed rest until further notice and not unlikely: until the end of the pregnancy.
It's not the second trimester I had imagined, and I still have so far to go! I had a lot of nausea during the first trimester, and was just starting to feel good, shiny and happy, but now there is nothing much to do except lie down and hope for the best. Which we still do, of course! Babe seems to be doing fine despite everything that's going on down there.
However, I don't have any friends or relatives who have gone through anything similar, and most of them can't really relate. People keep sending me "feel better soon" cards and texts, and they are well meant, but I am fine: the bleeding and contractions are painless, it's just the danger for our baby & the risk of premature labour that is preventing me from moving about. It's also quite lonely on my sofa all day.
I hope to maybe find some other expecting mothers who are going through something similar, or for other reasons have a high-risk / not so blissful pregnancy, so we can support each other and share war stories (and Netflix recommendations, perhaps). ;)