Bedrest

ladymadonna77

Well, my doctor took me out of work this week.  I'm a RN and worked 12 hour shifts three times a week up until this past week. I did have to take about half my FMLA due to hyperemesis gravidarum and severe back spasms, and it is still is bad. Tuesday morning after work I was having such bad contractions that I went straight to the OB Assessment floor at the hospital I work at.  The contractions were every 4-8 minutes, I'm 100% effaced and was 2cm dilated.  It's a high-risk L&D, so my issues weren't that bad and my OB had them send me home on bedrest til I saw him this past Thursday.  I was only 1 cm dilated at that point, but he said I had to stop working.    Now I understand why, I can't hardly move around from all the pressure on my ligaments and sciatica is killing me.  I lost my mucus plug early Thursday morning, but my doc said it could be a couple of weeks before anything happens since baby is still high and posterior, although he could feel the head. August 13 can't come soon enough!