14 Days

10 Doctors

17 Nurses

5 Shots

6 Blood Draws

5 Ultrasounds

1 Incredibly supportive husband

1 healthy and very active baby

14 Rice Krispie Bars Eaten ;-)

We’ve been on quite the journey over the last 14 days but I am pleased to say that baby and I are both doing well and are receiving the most excellent care possible. Our journey began in an interesting way. On Wednesday, February 28^th we went to a perinatal clinic, attached to the hospital, that we had been referred to by my midwife due to some questionable things that had been noted at my last ultrasound. At the appointment on the 28^th we learned that I have a low-lying bi-lobed placenta, and a rare and high risk condition known as Vasa Previa. Basically, what it means is that there is one of baby’s blood vessels that is blocking the cervix. If the blood vessel were to rupture, due to contractions, more bleeding, my water breaking or vaginal delivery the baby would lose too much blood. We got lots of information and were fairly overwhelmed when we left, but also glad to have some answers. Our biggest takeaways were that Vasa Previa is very high risk and that should I have any bleeding, contractions, or break my water, I should go to the hospital immediately as they would need to perform a C-Section right away. We were scared because the doctor said sometimes they only have 5-10 minutes, but we were ready to proceed with caution.

And then… I woke up at four in the morning with bleeding. We rushed to the hospital and were so relieved when they hooked me up to the fetal monitors and we heard our sweet baby’s heartbeat. The doctor on call at 4:30 in the morning told us that we’d “bought ourselves a 5-7 day admission”. Later that day we met with the doctor we’d just met the day before and he agreed that we’d have to stay until the bleeding stopped. Then we waited…