I know this post was originally from 2007, but i was looking for answers & discovered this is EXACTLY what i just went through. Only difference was, i was working, and started to have breathing problems at 13 weeks so i left and went to my nearest ER, even though they didn't have OGBYN's there. They were mean and asked me why i came there knowing that, but i'm sorry i think i need to be able to breath and my OBGYN's hospital was 25 minutes away where as this one was literally 2. Anyways, they gave me a breathing treatment and then i needed to go to the bathroom, so when i went i literally almost filled the toilet up with blood. sent me into hypovolemic shock. I started cramping miserably. They did an ultrasound & it showed a happy healthy baby bouncing around with around a 160 hb. but when the dr did an internal exam said my cervix looked open so they had to transfer me to my obgyn's hospital. when i got there they said all looked fine, they didn't know what the blood was from but my cervix was closed so sent me home to follow up with my dr. this was a friday night/saturday morning. Then saturday & sunday i continued to bleed but not heavy like it was. Then i woke up monday morning around 1 & the same thing like the ER happened again. I ended up calling the ambulance & while waiting i passed out from loss of blood. When i got to the hospital again, they did an ultrasound baby was happy healthy heartbeat and moving around. So they were discharging me. At this point i was upset. I had lost ALOT of blood. the baby looks good, okay, but what about me? that amount of blood loss is not normal. so they checked my iron counts & they came back 8.9 they called my ob & he said to discharge me & for me to come in as soon as they open. It was 6:30 & they opened at 8:30, so i did. He examined me said my cervix was closed he had no explination for the blood loss & all he could do was put me on iron pills more folic acid & changed my prenatals. put me on complete bed rest i couldn't get up except for to go to the bathroom. This was monday. I did that all day monday & tuesday. & tuesday night i passed a clot. called the dr, sent me to labor and delivery to get checked out. by now i was over 14 weeks. I went in there & still cervix was closed baby was happy. but blood was way down & i was very dehydrated. So they said they wanted to monitor me over night. At this point i had started to go into labor. full on contractions. they gave me meds for it & a couple hours later i delivered my little angel. It was hard. And people don't really understand what i'm going threw. i'm young & it wasn't planned. but it's like just because i didn't carry full term & then loose it, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. This just happened this past Wednesday. So i haven't gotten the pathology report back yet. But what i don't understand is if the baby was still alive and my cervix was closed until i started having the contractions then why didn't they give me something to stop them? i know they have stuff like that. I just don't get it.
Has anyone else had any answers to what caused all the bleeding before hand?
oh & i also have a bicornuate uterus. (heart shaped) if any of you have heard of that. but they told me that it didn't have anything to do with it until i got into my 20+ weeks. i have a higher chance of going into labor around then.
Anyways, i hope someone still comes on & reads this & has some help!