3rd Visit to Gynae

Today I had my 3 rd follow up with Dr. Lim. He was going on a long Christmas break for 2 weeks...so everyone had a mad rush to see him. Long wait and he had 2 operations lined up when I got there. I drove like a crazy woman to get to the hospital as early as I could...but still couldn't make it for a good queue number. Anyway, once I heard that he was in a middle of an op, I decided to leave and come back later.

Quickly made a dash to Carrefour and Mydin. Had one and half hours before I had to rush to fetch Ryan from school at noon. So tried to do as much of my Christmas grocery shopping before the weekend. ( BTW, my in laws and the whole gang will be coming this Sunday for a Christmas lunch here... and I am really nervous and stressed already about the Christmas menu on that day!- anyway that is another post.)

Picked up Ryan from school. He was so chatty and happy to see me. He was almost the last kid to be fetched. He was so cute... the teacher somehow slapped so much powder on his face. So his face was all smothered with powder. We went to McDonalds for lunch. I had not enough time to cook his lunch. On top of that, I was totally knacked from all the rushing around. Ryan and I shared a Mc chicken meal and nuggets. He was such a happy kid chomping down his fries and dipping them in the tomato ketchup. It has been more than a month since he had those oily treats! The boy was surprisingly well-behaved throughout the entire meal there. Thank goodness! I don't think I would have enough energy to deal with him at that time.

We arrived at Dr. Lim's clinic at 3.30pm. I was rather worried that it had way past Ryan's afternoon siesta... so I knew that he could just burst into tantrums any moment. Thankfully I didn't have to wait long.

The appointment...
Dr. Lim as usual extended his hand whenever a patient enters the room. He looked tired. Ryan stood next to me while the doc took my pressure and did his usual checks. Then he took the ultrasound of my tummy to have a look at the baby. First 5 mins...he was scanning around. The baby looked happy.. could see the hands moving. Size was good. Development was according to the weeks... now is 11 weeks 5 days.

After that, the doc looked serious.. and asked me whether I had bled during this pregnancy. I answered "no". He noticed some bleeding accumulating at the membrane wall of the placenta. My mind just went blank after that and my heart just sank. "Oh no...why complications?" I thought to myself. I asked some questions that showed my anxiousness. But the doc was really reassuring and said that it is common and it should be reabsorbed over time. If I do get any bleeding, just go and get the baby checked again. I just felt like something heavy sitting on my shoulders. Although I rejoiced to see the baby, hearing that there was some thing going on inside me... made me so unsettled.

Anyway, I went home and checked the internet about this. I arrived at this condition which the doc failed to inform me... it is called subchorionic haematoma. Apparently many women in their first trimester experience this... and the seriousness depends on how serious the clot is. Dr. Lim didn't believe in giving any medications... whereas some doctors use hormone pills to settle it. I guess more rest and less movement would help. I kept on asking myself what may I have done to bring about this... was it something I did... did I walk too much, or walk too fast or take too much supplements... any overdose in iron in my diet... etc. But apparently, the cause of SCH is unknown.

OK...I guess i just have to take it easy. I can't wait for the 4 weeks to pass as fast as possible so I can view the baby again and hope the bleeding would be gone!