Monday January 30, 2012 - 31.5 Weeks

This morning I woke up and I was bleeding. I called Dr. Castilla's office to let them know and to see what I should do. The nurse told me to come in right away so they could make sure that baby was okay. I called Rich and told him not to panic but that we needed to go to the doctor and get checked out. Dr. Castilla checked me to make sure that my cervix wasn't dilating and it wasn't thankfully but wanted to do a Fetal Fibronectin test and that checks the cervix area for cells that indicate preterm labor is imminent. Unfortunately because I was bleeding so heavily, the test couldn't be performed because it would have produced a false/positive result. Dr. Castilla decided to go ahead and send me over to the hospital so that I could be monitored on their machines for contractions and to get a non-stress test to make sure the baby was okay. We spent the rest of the day at the hospital getting monitored by ultrasound and by the contraction monitor and fetal heartbeat monitor. All the results from the tests came back great and they couldn't really figure out why I was bleeding. Everything was fine with the baby, and that is all I was concerned with. We got a taste of how it would be in the hospital when the big day comes and we were really happy with the nurses and the overall treatment that I received at the hospital. Dr. Castilla called and asked me to come back on Thursday to check back in.