a little scare.

When I had a miscarriage earlier this year, it started with some brown spotting. That eventually led to red bleeding, which turned out to be my body expelling a blighted ovum. Well, recently I had some of that ominous brown spotting. I called the doctor, and even though I was told that spotting can be common in early pregnancy, they still had me come in right away. She did an ultrasound, and our little lentil looks pretty normal. There's already a heart beat!

Since the ultrasound pretty much looks like a peanut in a hole to me, I asked her what things would look like in there if there were a problem. "If the baby was miscarrying", she said, "The sac wouldn't look so round. It would appear to be deflated, and it would be moving down toward your cervix." She went on to tell me that 3 out of 10 pregnant women experience spotting throughout their pregnancy. No need to panic unless I'm bleeding bright red, enough to soak a pad.

My appointment made me feel better about the spotting for about 20 minutes, until I had to pee and saw more spotting. I've been lightly spotting brown for four days now, and I'm still completely freaked out. My next appointment is in three days, so hopefully that will help to ease my mind.

...but it probably won't.