A 2am scare

23 weeks 5 days

For the past month, I've had nausea in the evenings, especially after 9 or so.  I had read on a pregnancy forum about how some other women were having problems with milk and had similar symptoms, so I'd been trying to cut down on my milk intake lately, including yesterday.  I started feeling kinda off yesterday afternoon, but I didn't think it was more off than how it's been lately.

Sure enough, when 9pm came around, I got the nausea.  I tried napping in the recliner for a while, and it did help me push down the nausea enough to get some sleep.  At 1am I decided to try going to bed, but it just got worse while laying down.  By 2, I couldn't hold it in anymore and had to throw up.  It was all bright red tinged, and I knew it was blood, a good amount of it by the looks of it.

D had only just gone to bed, so he got up with me.  We were both scared to death that there would be something wrong with the baby.  I called the pager number for my OBGYN, and the doctor reassured me that I would be more lightheaded from blood loss before I lost enough to actually affect baby.  She advised that if I threw up again the same morning to go to the ER, but she said if I didn't lose anymore blood that I could get an appointment on Monday.  We were relieved that baby wouldn't be affected, but I had trouble getting my stomach to feel calm enough to even lay down again.

D did some google searching, and the cause could be anything from esophagus damage to a stomach ulcer.  He stayed up with me so I could have some company while we waited to see if I would be sick again.  I sent him to bed about 5:30am, but it took me another hour or so before I felt safe enough to try laying down.  I got maybe 3 hours of sleep on the couch, but even that wasn't consistant enough to feel much rested.

My stomach still seems to not be ready to make up its mind to calm down, but I was able to keep down some egg biscuits for breakfast.  We have to travel today to check on D's wedding outfit, but I'm going to take it easy once we get there.  I'll post again after the doctor's appointment tomorrow what they say about this.