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Date: 25 February 2008 20:29:15
(Before you read on, you need to know everything is fine; panic pretty much over.)
When you're pregnant, all the notes and books and whatnot you get are unanimous on one thing: If you have any bleeding AT ALL, contact your midwife IMMEDIATELY. One of them even says "you will be admitted to hospital until either the bleeding stops or your baby is delivered" but I do think Miriam Stoppard is a bit of a drama queen in this area.
So, when you do as instructed and contact the hospital (not your community midwife or GP because it's 7.30 on a Sunday morning and the maternity ward is the only place you can get a reply) you expect the response to be a bit more constructive than "well... see how it goes and you can go to A&E later if you want."
What does 'see how it goes' MEAN in this context? Also, when she says 'are you having any pain?' the only possible response is 'not until you mentioned it, but now you've said that, I can feel all manner of twinges which I probably would otherwise not have noticed, and you are now convincing me that this means imminent doom.'
Gah.
Thank goodness for sensible friends who are midwives that's all I can say. The sequence of the morning was basically:
1. Aaaaagh! (not an unreasonable response on not much sleep and doom-filled pregnancy information)
2. Calm down a bit
3. Phone hospital
4. Less calm
5. Phone C
6. Oh, that's all right then.
7. Get on with day.
The moral of the story is to phone C first in future, methinks.