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So, here I am, day 5! And 27 weeks! Moving right along!

So far it hasn’t been TOO bad. I had a melt down Wednesday night, but it’s been the only one. And I think that was brought on because I laid there for a long time listening to the monitors, that were turned up really loudly, just emit the noise of baby moving around, not the heartbeat like they’re supposed to be. So the sounds were just really grating on my brain and drove me nuts.

But other than that…

It’s often hard for me to type a lot though, like now – this is weird. Trying to extend my arms and reach the keyboard on the pull over table without upsetting the monitor. So if I don’t answer emails very fast and stuff, that’s why! Sometimes all I can do is use the mouse and play a game or something. But even that doesn’t happen all that often. I’ve mostly spent my time doing that cross stitch and watching TV and this internet is extremely slow during the day. Cross stitch takes me a long time, too, since I can’t move as efficiently as normal.

But anyway, it’s interesting the things you don’t think about regarding bed rest, before you’re actually on it.

They’ve got me on a couple of medicines and even last night gave me an Ambien which was… interesting. I got to sleep for a bit then had to get up and go to the bathroom and let’s just say, don’t walk while you’re on Ambien. I was so dizzy! It was weird. But after that, I got to not wear the fetal monitor for a few hours and I slept SO good.

They’ve got me on these things that go on my calves and are cuffs that fill up with air intermittently. This is to make sure the blood pumps through my legs and I don’t get blood clots. They’re not all that bad. I was worried at first it would be like wearing a blood pressure cuff all the time, like when I had Elijah – and it went off every 3 minutes. After just a few times, my arm hurt so bad. The worst part of these things is that they can get hot and also, I don’t like the feel of their material on my bare feet LOL. Oh, and the other night the nurses made me sleep in them though I know the doctor said just all day to wear them, and that was incredibly annoying. Thankfully, the nurses last night didn’t make me wear them to sleep.

I’ve had both of the steroid shots and by now they have reached their maximum effectiveness. So now we are just waiting. They did hurt, but not as bad as my wonderful friends made it sound like! Maybe I went in over prepared and expected them to be worse, ha. Actually, I find that that can be a pretty good technique, I think that’s how I went into childbirth with E and I didn’t think it was so bad at all. These shots are for the baby’s developing lungs, though. I got to learn about that, too, how they actually help. Pretty interesting. And the nurse told me why they sting so bad – because the liquid is really thick and goes right in your muscle, but you just work that muscle and it’s all fine as it disperses it.

But anyway, I don’t know if I mentioned this before – but what they didn’t tell me before I was in here, was that when I get out, I’m apparently going to need physical therapy. I know that I’ve already lost muscle mass, at least the stuff I gained from working out throughout 2007/8, but apparently after all this it will be bad enough I’ll have to have therapy. Well, whatever, really, that’s the least of my worries I think, but it’s just weird because I didn’t think about that before at all! It also has to do with back problems. I have those already, yay, not to mention back problems from pregnancy and now back problems from being in bed all the time. My butt hurts quite a bit, too, and the other day my back hurt so bad it literally hurt through to my chest. It was not fun.

Visitors are fun though :)
Even just if they come in and can only sit and talk a few minutes. Great to see a familiar face. I’m starting to get to know some of the nurses but I haven’t really had any repeats yet and they don’t always write their names down for me (actually, only 3 have) so I often can’t remember their names either!

Just had another visitor lol. The dietitian haha.
She was concerned about my weight loss over this pregnancy. But I think I’m about a pound from being back where I was pre-pregnant. She also wanted to make sure I was getting plenty of calcium and fiber. She gave me a menu where I can order from the cafe and not just “room service.” She says they let long term pregnancy people do that, so she comes after you’ve been in about a week. So yay, more choices! I’m sure there will be a post on hospital food forthcoming. :)

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