Wake up call
Stacy woke up Tuesday morning around 5 am to find she was bleeding. We woke up our friends and neighbors (Mike and Chandra) to stay with Blake until Grandma could make it to our house and then raced to the hospital. The ride to the hospital seemed to take forever as Stacy could not feel any movement from the baby. We arrived, several nurses rushed to our aide and got Stacy in a room connected to monitors and thankfully the baby was doing fine. Vitals were great and lots of movement. Shortly after that her doctor arrived and went to work ordering some tests. The bleeding eventually stopped and they continued to monitor the baby during the day.
Later that day, we decided to have an ultrasound done by a Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) doctor and they found Stacy has placenta previa (placenta covering the opening to the cervix) read more here. I think she is borderline full vs. partial previa (depends who we ask but it looks like the placenta has basically grown to the point where it is now covering the opening for the cervix and it hasn’t been that way her entire pregnancy).
Based on her history we decided with the doctor that it was probably best she stay in the hospital until she delivers as she is at risk to have more bleeding. She is now 35 weeks and a couple days. We went back to MFM an hour later to have an amniocentesis to find out if the baby's lungs were fully matured.
A few hours later we got the results back. The level they measured needed to be at 55 for fully mature, our baby is at 43. So it looks like more waiting. They will give Stacy a two part steroid injection to help speed up the development of the lungs.
After her first injection we headed to bed for our first night at the hospital.