About two weeks ago, we had a bit of a horrendous and roller coaster weekend.  I was getting ready to see my friends and finished up when I took Juno on a walk.  I felt faint more than usual and a bit nauseous even after eating so I messaged my friends and they told me to stay home and rest up.  It was probably one of the best calls because I ended up not having an appetite and only intaking liquids -- soup and water. But even then, I was vomiting liquids on liquids.  I called the 24/7 nurse line 4 times.  Nurses were helpful and they even tried to connect me to a not so helpful doctor who seemed more irate that I had bothered him with a trivial matter at 10:30 PM.  He wasn't very clear on the medicine he was telling me to go out and buy so I didn't do it. Saturday morning, I had unusual bleeding prior to bowel movement and cried thinking the worse but the nurse didn't seem to consider it an emergent matter and told me to call my doctor's office immediately come Monday morning. Sunday, I felt a shortness of breath with the persistence of unusual bleeding prior to bowel movement.

I finally resolved to go to the ER.  I was shaking, barely able to walk, and still had shortness of breath.  But essentially, what happened was the pregnancy nausea was causing that.  I didn't know that was a symptom of nausea but apparently acid can build up at the bottom of your esophagus because your body is preparing you to vomit which does that.  They gave me anti nausea meds and my energy level and shortness of breath went away pretty quickly.  They did some labs with my blood and gave me an ultrasound and nothing seemed out of the blue or unusual so the bleeding also seemed to be a fluke.  But based on my research, pregnancy can cause constipation and if you strain during your bowel movement, bleeding isn't actually uncommon.  

I ended up going back to the doctors on Monday for a talk (which was completely unnecessary because all they did was ask me how I am and everything they saw in my file looked like I was okay and baby was too).  But at least I had reassurance!  Double I guess.  They ended up giving me more pamphlets they should've given me at my 7 week appointment because I could have essentially saved myself an ER trip because the info on nausea and shortness of breath was in there!

Though it was an unfortunate and scary ordeal, I'm blessed to know baby and I are in good health.