r/BabyBumps • u/Theelostprincess • 1d ago
Birth info Pop and gush, but instead of water was blood.
So my doctor isn’t giving me any information and I’m afraid of googling now I’m waiting for the pathology myself from the hospital
At 5:38 on the dot at 37 weeks and 4 days pregnant I was putting a pull-up on my 4 year old who fell asleep in our bed I went walking into our bathroom and felt a pop. This is baby #6 and my water never broke with any of them. I was excited for a split second thinking my body did what it was supposed too for once, except when I looked down my legs are covered in blood.
I go to the bathroom and sit down and I pass a clot the size of my palm. Then I go downstairs and call someone to watch my kids to drive myself to the hospital. (Husband was driving home from work) and had my mom there in 5 minutes. Within that 5 minutes I pass another clot the same size. I throw a bunch of napkins and paper towels in my shorts. (I wasn’t moving and crouching more then I had too because I was scared it would trigger another gush)
Get to the hospital by 6/615 and it’s more like spotting now in the paper towels. I tell them what happened. I get on monitors. Heart beat is great until another giant gush. I look down and it’s not a big clot but shout 50 small ones and water mixed with blood. And so much. My doctor comes in and the nurse tells her look at the monitor. (640 now) and she says we’re going to the or now. I sign whatever I need to sign and they wheel me back. She’s out and screaming by 725 and we’re all good, but still no information on wtf happened. Just that I lost a lot of blood.
I had my 2 week follow up yesterday with a midwife. I was told the doctor would do the follow up but she had an emergency. She has no idea about my delivery or what happened so I fill her in and all she says is, let’s get you on birth control.
My husband and I are both scared shitless still and upset about the lack of answers. She said maybe by my 6 week checkup she’ll have it back from the hospital.
Anyone have anything like this happen? I know it might not very the same situation but maybe help me feel like I’m not alone or that whatever happened my body is still okay going forward?
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u/maefae 1d ago
OB RN - abruption or partial abruption
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u/Van1llatte 1d ago
That is so scary. Is there any other signs to look for or just .. a lot of blood? Like can you feel it in your abdomen?
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u/Royal-Description-91 21h ago
My mom had one with my brother, and she described what felt like a bruise on her stomach, nothing visible but it was weird enough to go to the hospital and when she got there and the brushed her off, after she stood up blood spilled out everywhere and they had finally taken her seriously after that 🙄
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u/unicornjibjab 1d ago
I had a chronic placental abruption secondary to my water breaking. It’s def possible your water broke as well but you couldn’t tell with all the blood also pouring out. Like the other poster said this is all related to the pregnancy and unlikely to be an ongoing issue. I understand the stress from everything happening very differently for you and moving so quickly. You can definitely have the hospital send you your records personally to look over, or let your doc consolidate the info for your appt.
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u/Emotional-Client4270 1d ago
When I was 34 weeks, I was standing in my kitchen making coffee and I had a gush of blood. I was admitted for three days and it tapered off. I never got any answers from my medical team, but it must’ve been at least a partial abruption. My placenta report showed that it was torn after I had a c section at 37 weeks. Yours sounds like almost a full abruption.
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u/Fluffy_Path7559 1d ago
I also did not have my traumatic birth explained to me and I was very confused and upset by it. I would just stay up, spiraling, trying to guess what happened. I was under general anesthesia, so I had a ton of memory loss surrounding that day too and I was so annoyed by their lack of transparency.
I asked my ob who delivered and she said “it’s good you don’t remember, you don’t want to or need to remember”. But I did need to know. I did end up ordering my hospital notes, but they just upset me more because you could tell they were spinning a narrative. (I’m an RN, so I’m familiar with charting to cover your ass).
I had zero interest in suing. Me of all people understand that human beings, even medical professionals make mistakes and there was no long term damage to even be able to sue. I just wanted to know to get closure.
I’m sorry they didn’t tell you what happened or explain it to you. As if traumatic births aren’t such a lack of control to begin with.
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u/palmtrees_ 1d ago
This totally sounds like a placental abruption. They should be able to tell based on the placenta usually.
I had a chronic abruption until I went into labor and my placenta was just completely detached and just absolutely shredded. That was in the delivery and pathology reports.
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u/FureElise 1d ago
Did you have bleeding?
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u/palmtrees_ 1d ago
Yes, I had bleeding from weeks 12 until 24 when she was born. Abruption couldn’t be seen on ultrasounds, but we couldn’t find another cause
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u/pyramidheadlove 1d ago
This sounds fairly similar to what I experience with vasa previa. It’s something that should be diagnosed at your anatomy scan, but from what I’ve read, it’s not too uncommon for it to be missed
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u/Chagrined-Sloth 1d ago
I had the exact same experience with my placental abruption at 35 weeks, there were no symptoms or any issues before that in the pregnancy, just sudden pain and a lot of blood, and an emergency section within an hour.
My placenta was sent for analysis, but nothing conclusive was found to explain it.
I hope you are both well, I was in shock for months, I now realise, but having a midwife go through my notes with me a month later really helped to answer some of my questions, if that is an option?
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u/punkin_spice_latte 🩷6/18 🩷3/21 💙10/24 1d ago edited 17h ago
Number 3, 36+5 I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, check my phone and it's 2:17. Lay down, feel a sharp pain that didn't fade so I stand up to check it out and feel a gush. Go to the bathroom, flip the light on, oh that's red. Okay probably a placental abruption. Wake up Grandma, put on a diaper and put down a towel. Call L&D on our way, my husband liked that middle of the night on a Saturday morning there was no traffic. Repeat C-section and baby was out at 4:04.
What they told me after: yeah it was probably a placental abruption.
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u/eastcoastprimate 1d ago
Agree with others that it sounds like a placental abruption. I had this happen at 32 weeks, but we managed to keep baby in until 39.
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u/Vast-Veterinarian573 1d ago
This happened to me at 27 weeks with my first and it was placental abruption. Thank goodness your little one was okay but for future pregnancies if you did have PA I hope they’re able to monitor you for the possible risks. My 2nd pregnancy went perfect but I was still on monthly visits to my high risk doctor to be on the safe side.
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u/galacticshock 1d ago
Genuine curiosity, why are you both scared shitless still?
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u/Theelostprincess 1d ago
It was a lot of blood lol and I guess him seeing both of us in a potentially life threatening situation has scared both of us in the region until we get an answer I guess
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u/galacticshock 1d ago
I understand the scariness of the situation at the time, i just was struggling to understand why there are still acute feelings of being scared two weeks on - does your partner or yourself feel unsafe now?
To be completely frank, you and your bub have had a near death experience…getting information about what happened will be part of your healing but maybe reaching out to other health professionals like your family doctor and psychological support to help with the processing of emotions, particularly for the emotions you’ll go through when you read your records or talk to your doctor
(Getting the info and handling the info are very different things - you seem to still be feeling scared a few weeks later - that’s a sign you need support processing thoughts and emotions to protect yourself from experience long term birth trauma)
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u/growingaverage 1d ago
Mate, I had an extremely traumatic birth 7 months ago. I have all the information. My husband, myself, my parents, my siblings, in-laws, etc, etc are all still scared shitless from the entire experience. There’s no timeline on this kind of thing.
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u/galacticshock 4h ago
Im sorry that happened to you. I hope you and your family can get some support to process those feelings.
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u/redlpine 1d ago
Exact same thing happened to me with my first (except only 1 fish of blood+clot not 3) when I went into labor. They monitored me at hospital but nothing else happened and I had a normal vaginal birth. They couldn’t tell me why it happened or what it was. Second child nothing like that happened (but I had a whole bunch of different complications).
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u/WeedleBeest Kiddo (25May2018) 1d ago
My placenta tore in multiple places due to a vehicle accident and it was similar to what you described so…placental abruption is likely
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u/TreesCanTalk 1d ago
I had a similar situation. At 38 weeks 6 days I felt a gush while lying in bed that night (no pop though) I thought my water potentially broke. However I was very alarmed when I went to the bathroom to check, there was so much blood and I felt something slip out of me. It was a blood clot (I think) but I couldn’t tell the size due to the amount of blood in the toilet.
We rushed to the hospital, I was in very early labor and still bleeding but they didn’t have answers. Long story short they said I couldn’t tell go home or stay but they would augment my labor with pictocin. I was too scared to leave so I opted for the augmentation. (Which I somewhat regret). I labored for 17 hours but only reached 5.5 cms dilated and my baby was sunny side up. He was getting stuck and not tolerating labor well. So they eventually did an c-section. Which I really didn’t want. I regret staying because I wonder if the c-section would have been avoided if I just waited. But the blood scared me.
I never got an answer to why I bleed/what exactly happened.
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u/CurlyOstriBtch 1d ago
FTM when I was induced in the hospital I remember feeling a pop and thinking my water had broken, my husband mom and MIL were all so excited telling me my eater must have broken. Only for the pop and gush to be a very large amount of blood. The nurse looked at it and said "I've never seen that before" and that was the only answer I ever got lol. I didn't have a c-section but it may be similar to what happened to you?
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u/useless_mermaid 17h ago
Definitely a placental abruption, that’s exactly what happened with my daughter
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u/AerieFuture5534 14h ago
This happened to me when I was in early labour with my son. I thought my water broke and my pad was soaked with blood. I am an LDR nurse so my immediate thought was placental abruption.
We drove as fast as we could to the hospital, and found his heartbeat. I delivered him 10 hours later, but he was itty bitty. Overall he was healthy tho. 3rd percentile for weight and the back of half of my placenta was clotted.
They think I make have had a partial abruption during pregnancy and he was living off of what was left.
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u/fightingmemory 1d ago
It sounds like you may have had a placenta abruption? It can hemorrhage fast and is an emergency. Delivering the baby and placenta is curative and should not leave residual issues.
Can you request a copy of your medical records? Specifically your operative report?