Answers, Maybe!

Thankfully, this story ends with "and then it was all OK and we went home."

Yesterday for the first time I had extreme discomfort at the same time I had increased bleeding. It continued into today, so I called and gave them an update and they asked to see me. (Luckily they asked to see me in the office, not the ER!) The nurse listened to the heartbeat and was ready to send me on my way. I finally put my foot down and was insistant. I told her that I didn't just call the doctor when I had a question or problem just so that I could get a heartbeat listen. Maybe some people do that, but that's not what I wanted. I kept explaining what was different about this time and why I called, because I don't call every time I bleed. (I'd need a constant open line for that!)

She decided to call in a midwife to check my cervical length just to make sure that wasn't the problem. The second the midwife peeked, her face turned white. (Bad poker face, lady!) She said there was something coming out of my cervix that concerned her. I said OUT OF MY CERVIX? She said it could be a polyp, but that she's never seen a polyp that size so that it could be baby. I said but we just heard the heartbeat! She said she knew, but this was important enough to get the doctor out of L&D downstairs.

So then I spent 20 minutes partially covered by a piece of paper, shivering and shuddering from stress. Thank goodness my husband was there. The midwife kept coming in to check on us with her "I'm sorry I caused this panic state, but I have no words to say to make you feel better because I don't have a good feeling about this" face.

When the doctor came up, he got filled in on the situation and looked and determined that it is indeed a polyp. Woohoo! The midwife let out the biggest sigh of relief I've ever seen from a medical person. So then I had a thousand questions, all of which were pretty much answered with "we don't know." He didn't say it was going to cause a huge problem, he said it could shrink, grow, or fall off, but that they cause bleeding in the instances I have been experiencing it so that's probably our culprit. Whew.