8 week ultrasound

Disclaimer* This post probably has TMI.  

You have been warned.

Last Friday I had my 8 week ultrasound and I have never been so scared in my life.  Let's back up and I'll explain why.  The day before I had some cramping earlier in the day and I reassured myself that everything was just fine.  Dr. Wilcox said that cramping during pregnancy especially early on is very normal.  Okay.  So moving on.  That night around 10 pm I was getting ready for bed and I started spotting.  It was pink so I didn't worry about it {apparently pink or brown is okay}.  Two hours later I woke up to go to the bathroom again {which is a common occurrence nowadays} and when I went to the bathroom the water turned pink and I was spotting a darker pink.  2 hours later, pink water and bright red spotting.  This is the point where I REALLY started to freak out.  Bright red blood is BAD, and up to this point I had never ever ever spotted this much.  This continued every 1.5-2 hours and as the time passed the color went from the bright red to a brownish red to more of a brown color.  Needless to say I didn't sleep well that night at all and felt sick to my stomach when I woke up.  All I could think was, what if I miscarried one of the babies?  What did I do yesterday that could have caused this to happen?  Jared gave me a big hug and told me that everything was going to be just fine and that we would see and hear both of our babies at our appt. and that they were going to be healthy.

So we headed over to our dr.'s appt.  It took a long time to get over there because a wind storm had blown through the night before.  Winds in Pasadena had gusts of up to 100 mph and several cities around us declared a state of disaster.  Trees were down everywhere, electricity was out all around us.  

Thankfully we did not lose our electricity and did not have any damage from the storm.  When we got to HRC they were running late so we waited for about an hour before we were seen {which is like 4x longer than what we normally wait}.

When we finally got to see Dr. Wilcox I explained to him what had been going on and so he got right in on the ultrasound to see what was going on.

Both of our babies were still there and had strong heartbeats :)  One was 158 bpm and the other was 160 bpm.  However, I have fluid in my uterus.  {It's that little white line just above and to the right of the two babies}  It's not a lot, but it's the reason for my spotting.  The dr. doesn't know why it happened but it's definitely not something that he wants to see.  He didn't put me on bedrest, but I'm not allowed to do pretty much anything.  I can't do any cleaning or grocery shopping.  I'm allowed to work still, but when I get home at night I'm either sitting or laying down.  If I get more fluid in my uterus it could threaten the pregnancy, so I am 100% behaving so that my little babies stay right where they're supposed to.

I feel so bad for Jared because he has to do everything in the house right now.  Luckily he's being a pretty good sport about it.  He put up the Christmas tree and I helped a little with the decorating but not a ton.

I think it's beautiful! 

And now it officially feels like Christmas in our home :)