Lollipop Back
It was nice to hear so many stories and supportive voices for my post on Friday. I have to admit, I was kind of surprised by how many of you commented to say that bed rest wasn't such a bad thing. And, in principle, I don't have a whole lot of problems laying around on my bed knitting, playing with my computer, and digging into a few novels. I think, for me, it's just the idea of having someone else impose the confinement on me. Not always so good at taking orders or good advice from other people, you know? The funny thing about this is, that, because I'd been feeling a bit more tired, I'd been imposing some couch time on myself already. See, if I my doctors could somehow convince me that bed rest was all my idea, then we'd be cooking!
And I did try to be pretty good this weekend. There was a trip out to dinner with John on Friday, my facial Saturday morning (nothing is more relaxing than a facial, so I figured it was in the spirit of resting) and a trip to the quilt store on Saturday afternoon to drop off the Groovy Stack N Whack to be machine quilted (I still have hopes that the quilt will come back before the baby arrives). Sunday saw a trip to our favorite breakfast place. A girl's got to eat, after all! And I've never been good at eating and reclining... it's usually a recipe for wearing more of my food than I would like!
Today I'll get to see my OB again and find out if this prescription is going to be a long duration one. Hopefully I will get more of a "take it easy" than a "complete rest" suggestion.
For the next couple of days, it's going to be about Lollipop. No promise of exciting pictures for a while, more like a bit of photo blogging as the pieces come together.
So many bobbles....
Glad you're resting up. The last couple of comments I've left haven't shown up but I wanted you to know that I'm thinking about you and hoping you get good news today.
I completely agree on the restfulness of facials. I get one regularly as much for my psyche as for my skin.
Best of luck on the prognosis and prescription.
Good luck at the OB today.... sending you positive thoughts :)
I work in a Neuro rat lab. Everyone else in the lab is away on maternity leave, so I get no vacation. If you like, you can tell yourself that you are resting for me, since I don't get any. LOL
I was only on bed rest a week, but I didn't mind the knitting and reading and lying around part. (i'd have had to get a laptop if it had laster longer) What did me in was the aches and pains from having to lie on my side constantly. If I had been able to lean backwards life would have been much better.
If you do have to stay down for long, find someone who will do massage house calls! I was scheduled for one, but that was the morning my little boy arrived!
And I'm the same way, when it's my idea I have no problems with it. And my midwife actually only told me to take it easy, my mother and my accupuncturist ganged up on me though and convinced me to be flat, then the midwife confirmed that it was probably a good idea.
I was hospitalized for an extended period during my last pregnancy (mine was due to major surgery, not bed rest), and I met a lot of women who had been there for weeks on total bed rest. It sounded like torture to me. Many of the women were, like me, on magnesium to control pre-term labor. Magnesium blurs your vision enough that you can't read, knit, do crossword puzzles, etc. (I was actually grateful for the morphine--at least the hallucinations kept me entertained.) One poor woman had a toddler and a preschooler at home and was on bed rest at the hospital for three months, because she was having a hard time carrying twins. Her husband, who was a young Navy sailor, would come in every evening and cry, because he was so overwhelmed by trying to work, take care of two little ones, cook, clean, and do laundry. I hope your rest period is as brief and painless as possible.
i hope things continue to go well for you and the babe. the Lollipop is looking very cute and get a mani/pedi too the next time you get a facial! relax it up, big time! :o)have a great week!
Lollipop looks darling! I love watching your projects appear. They always look so lovely. And you pick such interesting things.
I hope things work out for you vis-a-vis the rest prescription. Of course, if I had it to do over again, I'd have taken off work and done a lot more voluntary bed rest a lot sooner than I did.
I totally sympathise for you but you know... I wish I could pass you this feeling---> oh lordy, what I would do for a few days, weeks or more of bedrest! With kids (on the outside) there is no rest for the weary! I would be watching a long list of movies, reading, reading, reading and more reading, and of course KNITTING! *sigh* ;-)
I also spent Friday in the hospital getting my baby checked out ... although we were in Georgia visiting family (we live in Massachusetts), and I really, really, really missed having my OB there to take care of things.
You're almost to the finish line, and won't have much time off your feet once the baby comes, so listen to your body and take it easy. Facials, breakfast out and quilt shops sound like a good prescription!
Good luck at the doctor today ...
That's the spirit Theresa. I absolutely agree on the restfulness of a facial. Sarah's idea is a very good one as well but make sure to let them know you're after relaxation not muscle release. Thinking peaceful, calming thoughts for you.
Pssst... bedrest is *great* for watching complicated, thought-provoking documentaries and movies. Because (a) it's enforced uninterrupted time (which you will have again in, say, three or seven years), and (b) if you're able to follow a complicated plotline after giving birth and before your child starts school, then you do motherhood better than I do.
It's also a great time to train your husband on the fine art of a good footrub and the construction of a proper ice cream sundae.
Totally know what you're saying -- hanging out, laying around and growing a baby is perfect when it's your idea -- really obnoxious when someone's telling you that you have to lay on your side and can't get up.
I was on bedrest with my first for contractions for a week, and was about ready to strangle someone (except I couldn't do that without getting up!) Luckily, it was nothing. I hope this is nothing too, but if it were the first sign of pre-eclampsia, at least Little Z is at a point where she would do fine if she needed to make a slightly early debut. Hang in there and just enjoy her little wiggles and big kicks. I missed those when the girls were out; it was so quiet inside again!
I tried to post before a couple times how much I love her quilt -- the whole is truly more than the sum of the parts, it's awesome! But your comments section thinks I have something to hide, apparently, and won't accept my comments from work....
Take care,
Cathy from Wisconsin (who never tires of Gestational Land, it's where I live!)
Cathy (from Wisconsin)
Rest is good, but keeping those feet up is important too! Try not to run around too much, coming from someone who had pre-eclampsia with both kids.
It's alot easier to kick back in your own bed than have them stick you on hospital bedrest!!
Sending you lovely low bp and proteinuria number vibes!
Theresa, I am concerned about how you are doing since you didn't post this morning. You post so consistantly that when you don't I wonder what it wrong. How was your OB appointment yesterday?
I'll be thinking of you. I've had many cousins and friends who've had to spend the latter parts of their pregnancies horizontal. The lying about could get frustrating, but the babies arrived healthy, though occasionally early.
Hugs, best wishes, and prayers.