pregnancy scare

We got to see our baby for the very first time on July 25th, 2012--but not on the terms that would have liked to.

My day started out very normal. I  was feeling completely fine & decided to take my little sister, Bailey, to Raging Waters. We spent about 3.5 hours there and I ended up with a pretty bad sunburn.
I dropped Bailey off to my parents and went home to take a shower.

I sat down to go to the restroom & saw blood in my swimming suit & was experiencing mild cramping. My heart sank. I started to cry & then remembered that often times you can have spotting & all kinds of crazy symptoms going on & still be completely healthy. I calmed myself down & continued to take a shower.

When I got out, I got myself a glass of water & laid down until I could get ahold of my parents.
Unfortunately, they did not hear their phones. While I was VERY scared of possibly miscarrying I was trying to keep myself calm in case if it was something else I did not want to start a chain reaction of bad thoughts.

I got ahold of my older sister, Aly, & she told me to go to the ER as soon as possible. She offered to pick me up but I was not in too much pain to drive & I wanted to be able to control my emotions as much as possible--if she had picked me up I would have assumed the absolute worst.

When I got to the hospital the ER was completely empty & after I wrote my name down they got me right in. They hooked me up to an IV of fluids & told me the doctor would be in after a few minutes.

When the doctor came in she went over the possibility of miscarriage but told me not to worry because they would check my blood levels and see how the baby was doing. I was laying there wondering why they were not getting me into an ultrasound & so worried about my baby.

Aly told her that we needed an ultrasound and they need to see what they can do to get me in
(Did I mention I have the best big sister in the world?)

The doctor came in and got me prepped for ultrasound & we were on our way. Aly & Weston came back with me while my daddy waited in my room for us to return.

The first time seeing my baby--was so surreal. I am not sure I even believe I am pregnant. Although we could not HEAR the babies heartbeat we could see it at 100 BPM & the baby was measuring at 6 weeks and 1 day. Dead-on to where it should be.

I was SO relieved to hear that my baby was okay!!! The end result of my visit was that I had gotten too dehydrated at Raging Waters & I needed to take it more easy! (I did not think this happened so soon in pregnancy--I knew I needed to take it easy--but I thought I had. I did not go down any water slides or jump on tubes or anything--the sun took it right out of me!)

I am so glad that our baby is healthy & normal thus far & pray that we can continue on without any more complications!!