We had a scare this morning...

Ironically, after finally announcing the news to everyone via email last night, we had our first scare this morning. J woke up and found some bright red blood when she went to the bathroom. It wasn't a ton, but enough to be of concern. Thank God for our home doppler...she and R immediately used it to confirm the babies were still alive and the hearts were beating as normal. Luckily, we had a doctor's appointment scheduled this morning first thing anyway. This was the first time with the doctor we will probably see regularly going forward. She was really nice, which was great to find. She did all kinds of exams on J and everything looks fine. Apparently there are two parts to a placenta and they don't fuse until 16 weeks. Sometimes the gap between the two parts can cause a little bleeding? I didn't quite understand but she did see a little separation there, where the parts hadn't fused and she thought that was the cause of the bleed. She asked J to lie around for a few days and not lift the kids until the end of the pregnancy! Yikes. (That was regardless of the bleed - just her policy I guess.) She said she would probably bleed for the next couple of days and to expect that. B and I will go over the next two days to help J with the kids so she can take it easy.

Amazingly, I'm not overly freaked out about this. I know from reading message boards for so long that a lot of people have little bleeding incidents like this and that this far along it's usually not serious. Of course, it's still stressful and I was far more stressed before we saw the doctor, but I do feel it will be OK. We got to have another ultrasound this morning because of the whole scare and the babies were moving like crazy! For some reason the ultrasound was really, really clear and we could see the spines on both of them and their features more than ever before. It kind of helped me forget the scare this morning because I was so fascinated by what they were doing on screen! The one usually elusive baby was still more calm, but the other one moved everywhere and we all commented that "he" has REALLY long legs! LOL So, after realizing the doctor wasn't concerned about the bleeding, I had to ask the question: can you tell us the genders this time? The elusive baby wasn't in a good position, but little long legs sure looks to be a boy. Now the question is, did we see a boy the other day and again a boy today for the same baby, or did we see a boy for both babies at this point?! It was pretty clear today that one is a boy, complete with B's legs. :)

Even though the scare looks to be OK, prayers would really be appreciated! We have another appointment in 2 weeks.