Bedrest whine

Ruby_Tuesday

I am very thankful to still be cooking these babies, but the bedrest is getting to me.  I'm not even on strict bedrest, it's more like modified bedrest but now I have sciatic pain and it's making it very difficult for me to even go to the kitchen to get a glass of water. 

There's a wine festival about a quarter mile from my house today, it's on the other side of a field.  We didn't go the last two years because of fertility treatments and obvioulsy I can't go this year.     I can hear the music playing as I sit here and it's beautiful outside.  I should be happy that I can't go.  I am happy, but I'm also sad.  I just feel like crap, I have hardly left the house in 3 months and I think I'm a bit hormonal right now.

I keep telling myself that I only have 1w2d to my c-section, but then I think that first I'll need to recover and then I'll be stuck at home during RSV season with 3 babies.  (Not that I don't want that, I do!)  I'm just a debbie downer, right now. 

So tell me if you were on bedrest, did you just forget about it when it was over and you had your beautiful babies in your arms?  I'm sure that's what happens I just want someone who's been there to tell me, "There, there silly bedrest MoM.  It will be okay."

MADforever2009

sorry i cant help you out, im behind you on BR and only have two.  But I can tell you....vent away!     When I get down I try to picture the future and when the boys will first smile at me and taking them to their sports games or helping them with homework.  You are a special person in a special place of YOUR life. 

I have a big problem with always thinking the grass is greener on the other side...

So I say have your moment then do something for you (I would have a bowl of ice cream)  

Congrats, ALMOST TIME!!!!

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i was on bedrest with my singleton for 6 weeks- and the fact that i was in constant pain made it easier to be stuck in my house- b/c it hurt to do anything so i really didn't want to go anywhere.  At least that was how i tried to look at it   To give the pain i was having (kidney stones/stents scraping me up inside when i moved) a good aspect, lol. 

I didn't have any post-bedrest trauma... but I did go through some PTS type issues from all the pain i suffered with the stones and stents - i still have shivers when i think about it --- it really  made me sad to be in such pain all that time - and it still makes me sad to remember that time - even though I had a healthy baby and that's all that matters- it's hard to just get over really painful times in your life sometimes.

MaygenDL0ve

Just think... next year you can go WITH the twins!!  I know how you feel... It's beautiful here, too, and the International Balloon Fiesta is going on.  GORGEOUS outside.  I've been making myself feel better by taking a little sun bath on the patio outside.  Not too long to heat me up and increase my BP, but just long enough to get some rays.  It's helping give me a healthy glow  Hang in there, mama!!!  I'm right there with you.

MaygenDL0ve

MaygenDL0ve:

Just think... next year you can go WITH the twins!!  I know how you feel... It's beautiful here, too, and the International Balloon Fiesta is going on.  GORGEOUS outside.  I've been making myself feel better by taking a little sun bath on the patio outside.  Not too long to heat me up and increase my BP, but just long enough to get some rays.  It's helping give me a healthy glow  Hang in there, mama!!!  I'm right there with you.

Oh wow, oops!  TRIPLETS!  Sorry about that  See, you have triple the hormones raging thru you right now making you antsy.   

ethansbride2b

I was on strict bedrest at home from 23w5d to 32w2d when I delivered.  It was hard.  I spent all those weeks in bed and my birthday, my husbands birthday, and my anniversary all passed and I was still in bed. 

YOU DO FORGET all about it when you see your BEAUTIFUL babies! There is a light at the end of the tunnel. 

I hear you about RSV season.  After my babies were born, I was in the house from January until early May.  Its all worth it though!  Healthy babies in the end is the BEST reward ever!

 HANG IN THERE!

kafunder

Ruby_Tuesday:

I am very thankful to still be cooking these babies, but the bedrest is getting to me.  I'm not even on strict bedrest, it's more like modified bedrest but now I have sciatic pain and it's making it very difficult for me to even go to the kitchen to get a glass of water. 

There's a wine festival about a quarter mile from my house today, it's on the other side of a field.  We didn't go the last two years because of fertility treatments and obvioulsy I can't go this year.     I can hear the music playing as I sit here and it's beautiful outside.  I should be happy that I can't go.  I am happy, but I'm also sad.  I just feel like crap, I have hardly left the house in 3 months and I think I'm a bit hormonal right now.

I keep telling myself that I only have 1w2d to my c-section, but then I think that first I'll need to recover and then I'll be stuck at home during RSV season with 3 babies.  (Not that I don't want that, I do!)  I'm just a debbie downer, right now. 

So tell me if you were on bedrest, did you just forget about it when it was over and you had your beautiful babies in your arms?  I'm sure that's what happens I just want someone who's been there to tell me, "There, there silly bedrest MoM.  It will be okay."

Yes, you do forget about it, although it does seem like you lost a bit of your life. I was on bedrest from 21w until I delivered, including strict bedrest for many of those weeks and a 4 week stay in the hospital. This was over the summer, so I essentially missed an entire season of beautiful weather, BBQs, etc. My babies were born August 30, and I forgot about it almost immediately. However, the only hard part is that after being couped up inside that long, you want to go out and do things with your babies after they arrive. However, we were told not to bring our twins out into enclosed places until 8 weeks, so it makes the first two months of maternity leave a bit isolating. That is when all those weeks of bedrest really do get to you.

carolinababy313

I hope for the same things you do.

This weeked is a huge downtown food/wine festival we go to every year and I am in week 10 of bedrest. I think at the latest I am 10 days from a c section....so I feel your pain.

I had another crying jag today just about how I feel so sore and shitty all the time and I just want to be freed from this bed. My husband tries to remind me that it's only a week and a half now in compaarison to what we have delt with. He's right. We can keep it up, and THEN the real fun begins

cookie_queen

Hang in there mama! You are doing a fabulous job cooking THREE babies and you will have THREE perfect, beautiful babies very soon to show for it. Can you send DH to the festival to bring you back treats??

This will soon be a distant memory and will be blocked out by all the wonderful memories you will be making with your babies! 

GSwans

I was on bedrest for 9 weeks (26w to 35w) and I swear, I completely forgot about everything difficult that went along with it when the babies were here.  It's just so beyond worth it.  I know you'll feel the same.  Keep your eyes on the prize!

janjag

The sciatica sucks, esp on bedrest.  I can't tell you how many nights DH was kneeding my butt in the middle of the night. 

I did 20wks bedrest, from 13wks on, and the toll it takes on your body as well as emotionally is significant.  I also went through IF for a couple years and missed out on alot... but don't think it makes bedrest easier!  Hugs to you!

After the babies are born, if you are having back/joint...whatever issues ask your OB for a PT referral.  It helped me start to gain some strength back.

BeccaLandes

I was on bed rest for 12 weeks, and I will tell you that once it was over, and my healthy babies were here, it did not matter.  I spent 3 weeks in bed in our bedroom on strict bed rest, and there are a lot of mornings where I wake up and think, "I really did that?" because it feels like such a distant memory.  You can read my blog and see how hard it was for me at first-- we had to have Christmas all alone, just the two of us, which was pretty sad.

I was lucky, though, and my boys were born in the spring, so I did not have to spend any time inside/at home with them-- we were out on walks and doing errands within two weeks.

It will definitely be ok!  In the long run, nothing matters more than the health of your little ones, and the wine festival will return again next year.

carolinababy313

BeccaLandes:

I was on bed rest for 12 weeks, and I will tell you that once it was over, and my healthy babies were here, it did not matter.  I spent 3 weeks in bed in our bedroom on strict bed rest, and there are a lot of mornings where I wake up and think, "I really did that?" because it feels like such a distant memory.  You can read my blog and see how hard it was for me at first-- we had to have Christmas all alone, just the two of us, which was pretty sad.

 

This reminds me..while I was in the hospital the  nurses were telling me about a mom of three who was pregnant with twins- she was there for four months on bedrest at Christmas. Due to the fact it was the crazy flu season- they were on lockdown and didn't allow visitors. So, she had to spend Christmas alone and didn't get to see her kids until after the holidays. Woah.

Ruby_Tuesday

Thank you everyone for your positive words of encouragement!  It really helped!  I'm feeling much better today.  Bedrest is a drag.  I guess it's pretty typical to have ups and downs.  It will all be worth it in the end.