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I called my doctor today because I'm still freaking out.
I told her about the bleeding 3 or 4 days after sex.
She said "I know a lot of women who experience implantation bleeding that soon after sex. I would bet you are pregnant. Come in to see me and let's talk about your options."
My boobs are sore, I'm crampy, my period isn't coming, you guys I think this is it.
I've never been this scared in my entire life.
I told her about the bleeding 3 or 4 days after sex.
She said "I know a lot of women who experience implantation bleeding that soon after sex. I would bet you are pregnant. Come in to see me and let's talk about your options."
My boobs are sore, I'm crampy, my period isn't coming, you guys I think this is it.
I've never been this scared in my entire life.
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Date: 2010-12-01 04:38 am (UTC)And I want to say this: many of them came in there terrified out of their mind and more scared, as you say, then they've ever been in their life. But all of them -- every last one of them -- found a way forward that worked for them. All of them lived through the experience, many coming out the other end stronger and more empowered than when they came in. (I know this, becaus they told me.)
I just want to put that out there. I think the terror of an unplanned pregnancy is magnified with this idea that we can't handle it, so it becomes this massive, mysterious, terrifying thing we don't feel equipped to take on. But in reality, I have seen over and over that countless people who go through that experience discover that it is indeed something they can handle, and live through, and move forward from.
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Date: 2010-12-01 11:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-01 05:38 pm (UTC)