Bleeding 31 weeks

[Peonyyyy]

I’m worrying slightly. This will be my second baby, I have had bleeding on and off in this pregnancy which I didn’t have with my first child. I went to the hospital for monitoring a few weeks ago and they discovered cervical ectropian, so it was good to know why. the bleeding has always been like pink or brown discharge, I’ve tended to call and go in if there is more than usual or if there’s any red in it. Movements have always been fine and last time I also had a scan and all fine with growth, amniotic fluid and placenta.

I last went in last week and had all of this, it’s usually always after I’ve done a lot of physical activity that I seem to get an increase but obviously it’s still worrying and I always call.

on Wednesday I got a call saying the swab I had as part of the checks came back saying I have an infection, I got upset because when I googled it said there is a small risk to the baby. I am now on antibiotics which make me so drowsy.

I was off work today looking after my3 year old, as usual spent the day walking to the playground then playing with him for the whole day, lots of movement all day, I was exhausted. Had brown discharge which I’d had all week but didn’t think much of it as it wasn’t red and knew I’d been moving a lot.

just went to the loo (it’s 1am) and some watery dark red in the loo not a lot and on wiping (but not sure if it just looks watery as it’s mixed with the wee) and worrying now.

movements still fine, don’t know what to do. It’s so hard when I already have a child, I’m so tired I just need to sleep and feel reluctant to call right now as it’s the middle of the night

Fihding this all so hard, no idea when to go in as I know I have cervical ectropian but don’t know when is enough blood to be calling, I can’t go every time I have a bit as it’s all the time 😭 I suspect I’m just doing too much but what else can I do with a 3 year old? I work part time so I’m looking after him alone twice a week, husband works at home and no family nearby.

shall I just call in the morning? Do I need to take resting more seriously and cancel plans this weekend to try to recover? With a 3 year old we are busy every day!

sorry for the ramble 😭

I hear you,it's tough. Also pregnant,2 year old and more time in triage than I'd like.

I would ring for advice,could br infection related but we don't know. They might say pad and monitor or come in but who knows.

Maybe cancel plans regardless to allow some rest.
Hope everything is ok

Thank you @Betterthanitseems nightmare isn’t it!

im going to try to sleep now and call first thing. So hard with another child, and cervical ectropian, I’ve got so much going on all the time and can’t just live at the hospital unless it’s actually necessary 😭

on top of this every time they examine me with a speculum I find it so painful and it causes even more bleeding. I just want to make it to terms with a healthy baby, it’s so worrying 😭

Ah, it's tough when you also have a toddler at home, isn't it. I know the antibiotics are stressful, but try and look at the positive that it means whatever it is can be treated. In my first pregnancy, I was group b strep positive but nobody knew. When DD1 was born, she was very poorly as a result. However, in my second pregnancy, it was all over my notes, and I had the antibiotics in labour and DD2 was born perfectly well. I'm always of the view that it's better to know than not know.

With the bleeding, i think I would phone your triage / advice line and just ask. As pp said, they may advise you just monitor overnight, but better to be safe than sorry. Is your DH at home to stay with your toddler if they were to call you in?

I had my second 6months ago and yes, the last trimester is exhausting with a toddler. I think if you have a very busy life, maybe look at what DH could do (eg. Mine took my toddler swimming every weekend so I could have a lie in in the morning), or cut back to essential activities - for us, that meant prioritising family visits but declining some nursery parties, outings mostly concentrated on the local park etc. I would take a nap as well when she had her lunchtime nap. I had planned to work to 37w, but then had high BP and preeclampsia so in the end I decided to go at 36w and give me extra time to rest whilst she was still in nursery. Im now very grateful for that time at home because once there are two of them, life is pretty non stop 😅

@CrispAppleStrudels thank you ❤️ yes I think I agree I need to slow down a bit. Didn’t have any of this with last pregnancy, we were still anxious due to mcs before him but I had no bleeding, also I guess our lifestyle was less busy as we had no children at this point so everything was very comfortable, I just did dog walks and pregnancy yoga!

our son has just given up his naps too which feels brutal. Missing that break in the middle of the day 💔 grateful he goes to nursery 3 times a week and looking forward to when my mat leave starts so I can rest while he’s there (at 37 weeks if I make it that far 🤞)

can’t wait for baby to be out, even though I j is it’s gonna be brutal with two and just hoping they arrive at full term 🤞

Woken up this morning (after worrying for 3 hours last night) and haven’t had any more bleeding, movements still good, going to take it easy today and call if it comes back/gets worse or any reduction in movement.

I can’t help but feel like I’m being dramatic (not sure why, because this baby is the most important thing) but I’ve told myself to cancel all my plans this weekend and rest. I think I always feel compelled to carry on as normal and not let anyone down but I really do need to take this pregnancy seriously. My due date is still 2 months away and I really need to get there.