The bloody waiting ...

How is it that only when a woman is pregnant, bleeding can be "unexplained"?

We're almost at the 12 week mark now and once again Elly is suffering some bleeding. It's not bad enough to panic about but it happens on a semi-regular basis and it usually puts us on edge after the problems we had with Matthew.

Every time it gets "bad enough" we head over to the Early Pregnancy Unit and the ladies there do a scan to show everything is OK and now and again Ell has an anti-d injection because of her blood type.

But they also tell us there's no obvious signs of a problem and no obvious sign of any cause for the bleeding so therefore it's unexplained. In almost any other situation if the red stuff comes out of somewhere they're willing to find out why and it frustrates me greatly that this is just left to sort itself out.

I *know* it's still early, I *know* it's uncommon and I *know* there's not much can be done about it but it doesn't stop either of us from fretting - we might be 12 weeks in (one third-ish of the way there), but it just means the next 34+ weeks seem to stretch out for a very, very, very long time...