SPOTTING?

Most everything has been going fine with me for the last several weeks...I've had a  few bouts of nausea, but no real sickness.  The only real effect I can tell this little thing is having on me is fatigue.  I get up after sleeping 10 hours and feel like I could take a nap.  And just about everyday at 3pm, right when the kids are supposed to arrive at my Youth Center, I feel like I could put my head down on my desk, amidst all the chaos, and fall asleep right then and there.  (And my pants are feeling a little tight.) Well, everything WAS going fine until last Thursday...

I woke up to go to my standing early morning meeting last Thurs (March 8th) and when I went to the bathroom I saw bright red blood and also discovered I must've been spotting all night.  I flipped out and called Hubby into the bathroom.  I called my Doc's office and it took them an hour and a half to call me back.  I was a bit ticked at this since I felt this was more of an emergency than 90 minutes calls for.  When the nurse finally did call me, she told me that spotting is common this early in pregnancy and she wanted me to go ahead and have the blood pregnancy test done tomorrow as scheduled.  Blood pregnancy test tomorrow as scheduled?!?!  I told her I had no idea what she was talking about.  I heard a rustling of papers and then she said that she had the wrong chart in front of her.  She then said that she wanted me to go for an HCG blood test to see what was going on, since I was 6 weeks pregnant.  Well, I'm glad you finally figured out who I am... I asked her if they saw people at this stage and she said only if the blood test indicates that they need to.

When I hung up, I have to admit, I called my OB/GYN here in town.  Not that the specialist hasn't been successful in getting me pregnant, but his nurse didn't impress me that morning.  Her lack of confidence gave me a lack of confidence.  I asked my local Doc's nurse for a 2nd opinion.  She called me back within 5 minutes and said my Doc agrees that a bloodtest is necessary at this time & if there's anything else wrong, I can always come see her.  That made me feel better.

So, at 10am, off I went to the hospital lab for another round of How Big of a Bruise Can You Leave on my Arm?  After I was done, we headed for home.  About a mile away, I got a phone call from the lab asking me to come back.  Apparently, they'd only drawn 1 tube of blood and actually needed 2.  Go figure...so both arms got to play in the gameshow that day....

At 3pm I still hadn't heard from my Doc, so I called and left a message.  What's going on with them?  I've never had this kind of trouble before!  At 3:45 the nurse finally called me and said my HCG was above 16,000, and so everything should be fine.  She did move my ultrasound up to Monday instead of Wednesday - I think more for my own peace of mind than for anything else.  She told me that unless the spotting became heavy or was accompanied by pain, I should not worry about it.