A Little Excitement (32w4d)

Nope, no babies yet... I'll just clear the air with that one first off.

I had been planning a post entitled "Quiet on all fronts" until today, when that changed.  Warning: This is a TMI post so if you're sqeamish you may want to skip.

The past 3 days I have suddenly developed a case of diarrhea.  You may remember that this is something I faced all throughout pregnancy until I got into the hospital.  Here, I have had to take something to keep myself regular.  So the development back to diarrhea was a bit unexpected.  Additionally, when I went to the washroom the other day, I noticed a bit of fresh red blood when I wiped.  I was told to keep an eye on it and found that it only happened after a bowel movement, but it was coming from the vaginal area.  Strange.

Well, today I woke up and got up to go to the washroom.  I noticed a bit of blood on the sheets and as soon as I moved to walk, I felt something come out of my lady parts.  I recognized the feeling right away and knew it was a clot.  Sure enough, I went to the bathroom and there was a clot almost the size of my fist in my underwear (gross!).  I cleaned up and called in the nurses.  I wasn't sure if that is what the mucous plug is like, but it seemed much bigger to me.  They confirmed it looked like a clot and put me back in bed with a NST.  Sure enough, I was contracting and had an "irritable uterus."  I was also cramping pretty bad and my back ached a lot.  I was hooked up to an IV (just in case) and breakfast was cleared away (though I begged for some ice chips to moisten my dry morning mouth).  The doctor came in to do an internal check of my cervix and said that it was closed and dry, and about 1cm in length.  

I've been resting now for a few hours and it seems like things have settled down a lot. We are hoping this is the clot from earlier that has just passed now (though I don't know why it hasn't been noted in the past few ultrasounds?).  Hopefully things will quiet down and go back to normal and we'll wait a few more weeks for these babies to arrive!  For now, I am just being monitored and playing the "wait and see" game. DH was at home (3 hours away) but planning to come down today, so I called him this morning and told him to get on the road right away, just in case.  He is on the way down now.  

So that's my story this morning.  I'm so happy to have made it this far with this difficult pregnancy, but hoping these little rascals stay in there a bit longer.  I'll do my best to keep you all posted.