Hey, just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I’m feeling tired, stressed and hormonal, so please only share your story if it is a positive one. I’m usually pretty resilient and rational but it’s been a tough couple of weeks and it’s starting to get to me.
I’m 24 weeks pregnant with my second baby (first was a straightforward pregnancy and vaginal birth) and I’ve had five instances of bleeding in the past two weeks. It’s fresh red blood, sometimes with small clots, and every time it happens I phone triage and then have to go to the hospital for a cervical check and blood tests (I’m rhesus negative as well). Twice they’ve just kept me for a few hours, once I was kept overnight, and twice now I’ve been kept in for two nights.
My placenta is anterior high. Cervix is closed and looks healthy from the outside. The bleeding is coming from inside my uterus but they can’t offer much more of an explanation than that.
They’ve said the edge of the placenta might have lifted away slightly from the uterus and be causing the bleeding. I got myself into a panic earlier today wondering how likely this is to lead to placental abruption, which is obviously dangerous.
I'm trying to remind myself that statistically that's a small risk, but if anyone had recurrent bleeding at this stage of pregnancy and everything turned out fine, I’d love to hear from you. Thank you.