Our Little Scare

I have had a crazy week. I’ve spent around 15 hours at the DMV/other government offices trying to get my car registered and a drivers license. Car finally got registered. They attempted to charge us $900 sales tax, but I talked them out of that. When we traded in our car, Honda paid us to take the new car because the new car was worth less than the old car. For some crazy reason the DMV thought that I should pay sales tax on the entire thing upfront, but after talking to management and the board of equalization, we figured out that I didn’t owe any tax. Fewph! I still don’t have a drivers license. Turns out that California doesn’t recognize my husband and I as married. When we got married, the temple sent the marriage license to the recorder’s office, but apparently there was an error with it so the recorder’s office sent it back to them, and then never received it back. So yesterday, my husband and I had to find two witnesses that were at our temple sealing (thankfully our inlaws are somewhat close), and go and take an oath and fill our paperwork that we were in deed married, so that they could make another marriage license for us. As long as nothing went wrong, I should have my marriage license in 7-10 days and then I can go take my drivers license test. My husband thinks that I am going to fail the drivers test because every little thing that could go wrong at the DMV, pretty much has. As soon as I was done “getting married again”, I rushed home and decorated my house and made food for a baby shower that I was throwing for a friend. The baby shower was really cute, and I think that she really enjoyed it. As I was watching her open presents I felt a sudden gush of fluid leak. I ran to the bathroom and found a large amount of blood. Not to be too gruesome, but all together it was probably around 1/2 to 3/4 cups of blood. I went to the other room and told my husband and he called the doctor, and they told me to go to the Emergency Room. One my friends from the baby shower offered to babysit, and my other friends finished up the shower for me and cleaned up all the mess by themselves. Bless their hearts! I was pretty scared, and pretty upset. We went to the emergency room and the doctor did any ultrasound and we saw the baby moving and it’s heart beating. Here is a copy of our first ultrasound. What a relief. I didn’t realize that you could bleed that much without having an immediate miscarriage. However, since I did bleed so much I have what they call a “threatened spontaneous abortion” or a threatened miscarriage. Women who have this have about a 50/50 chance of having a miscarriage or carrying the baby full term. They used to put women on full bed rest for this for a few weeks, but thankfully new research shows that full bed rest isn’t really helpful. All I have to do is be on pelvic rest. For the next couple weeks I just need to rest as much as possible, avoid stress, no exercise, etc. I can still do basic household things. I’m sure by the time I hit 12 weeks, I can go back to my everyday stressful routine :) I go back to the doctor this afternoon to get some more tests and check and see if the baby is still doing well.

So we need your prayers for this little baby. When I saw it on the ultrasound I can’t describe the joy I felt. I already thought I had lost this baby, and when I saw the little thing moving and its heart beating I felt such relief and such love. I know that whatever happens it will be o.k., but I think that God is going to allow me to carry this baby and have a healthy pregnancy. That is my gut feeling and my belief. Please pray for us, I know that prayers work and I know that God loves this little baby already even more than I do, which is a lot!