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High-Risk Pregnancy
Bed Rest Mamas Check-In *Tuesday*
This thread is for any and all mamas on bedrest, in any form. We are stuck home or in the hospital, in a bed or on our couches, and could use the support of each other to make it through this time in order to get to a healthy baby! We all know how hard bedrest is and we wish everyone a healthy pregnancy!!!! Anyone is welcome to join, and anyone can start this daily thread. Just copy and paste this paragraph and info lines below if you get here and the thread has yet to start for that day!
Name - Lesley
Due Date - 2/10
Date Placed on Bedrest - restricted activity/pelvic rest at 18 weeks; modified 12/10; hospitalized 12/16
Type - Hospitalized Modified bed rest
Why - Vasa previa/pregnancy induced hypertension
Question of the Day - What are you currently craving?
Answer: I want pizza so badly! I think we're going to order some tomorrow and share with the nurses. I also can't seem to get enough milk these days.
Updates: none today
**Good luck at your ultrasound tomorrow, Brittany! I hope your NST went well today, Cora! Good luck at your appointment tomorrow, Marissa! **
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Re: Bed Rest Mamas Check-In *Tuesday*
Name - Becca
Due Date - 4/22
Date Placed on Bedrest - started 12/18 at 22w1d
Type -modified at home bed rest (allowed out of bed but not the house, not too many stairs)
Why - shortening cervix, some BH contractions
Question of the Day - What are you currently craving?
Answer: I don't know, but I thought my appetite would decrease and it hasn't. It isn't crazy, but I definitely still get hungry for 3 meals a day and a snack or two. At night I crave fruit, right now I want fruit juice.
Updates: None. No news is good news! My next appt. is for a growth scan/cervical check on 12/30, and I will also get my first steroid shot then.
Name - Cora
Due Date - 1/23
Date Placed on Bedrest - 11/21 31 w
Type - Modified Bedrest/ Restricted Activity
Why - PTL
Question of the Day - What are you currently craving?
Answer: PASTA and MEXICAN FOOD!!! OMG I want both so badly!
Updates: NST went ok today, but I miss my regular nurse. I had this other woman whom I've never met before, and Kayleigh's heartrate was higher than typical, but this nurse felt she wasn't active enough and went and got that darn noise making vibrating thingy...like the technical term lol...drove my LO nuts, and her heart rate went up in the high 180's. I was not happy! I looked at her and said, Yvonne (the other nurse) typically like's her heart rate in the high 140's-150's. Her heart rate is to high. So what ended up happening, I had to stay an extra freaking hour so they could make sure Kayleigh's heartrate went down to the 150's. It barely got there within that 1 hour. Fortunnately Yvonne will be back next week, I have to deal with this darn nurse once more! Ugh!!!! Sorry about the ranting!
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Name - Marissa
Due Date - 2/5
Date Placed on Bedrest - 31W4d on 12/8 after spending the night in L&D
Why - pre-term labor (lost mucous plug and having what i thought were braxton hicks. 80% effaced and 1 cm dialated
Question of the Day - What are you currently craving?
Answer: OMG.. I would do anything for home made christmas cookies.... Bedrest is obviously preventing me from making them this year.. And my hometown (Scranton, PA) makes the best pizza ever!!!! I could eat a whole pizza right now.. but I will have to deal with grilled chicken tonight that DH is making.. yumm lol
Updates: Dr. Appt tomorrow
Thank you leslie for the well wishes to my dr. appt tomorrow
Hopefully I have not dialated anymore... Hope you and our other gals are doing well 
I also wanted to share LOs letters that I ordered from etsy that came in last night
Cant wait for DH to hang them~!!!!
etsy seller is: SheaChicDesigns
The letters are gorgeous! It makes me realize even more that my little guy needs a name!
Sorry about the nurse, Cora. I'm glad the good one will be back soon!
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Answer: fruit fruit fruit... and milk. :-)
Updates: Sorry girls, this one's long:So yesterday was weird. I went to see my MW for my 37 week appointment. (Oh yeah - I'm full term! YAY!) Both LO and I are doing well... REALLY well... so well, in fact, that MW said, "I guess you don't have pre-e." This is good news, I know... but I'm getting weary from this rollercoaster. I never wanted to be induced, but at my 36 week appt., I left with the impression that I was going to be induced at 38 weeks (which is NEXT WEEK)... and I went through this process of getting ready for that, including all that is involved with having a 2009 baby rather than a 2010 baby. My mom and sister are pressuring me to push for an induction, now, so we can have the financial benefits of a 2009 baby. Of course that would be nice, but I really want to wait. PLUS, my MW isn't going to go for it... that's why I chose a MW, after all. I know that everything will work out better if I wait until I go into labor naturally. My mom (who had two natural labors and deliveries and one other one) said, "Well, the OBs here do that all the time, for everyone." Then she continued to make this my responsibility/my choice, etc. Its just really stressful.I'm worried about work. Because I left work at 34 weeks, the days I'll have to spend at home with LO (EBFing, I hope), are getting shorter. The amount of days without my income are continuing, and the time when we'll have to pay for daycare is getting here sooner. If I'm past my EDD AT ALL, I won't even get six weeks with her. This makes me sad. :-(Even though I really want to go into labor naturally, for a week or so I was geared up for the induction, and it IS terribly convenient. I'm getting tired of going back and forth with the diagnosis and everything. Obviously, I have mixed feelings.Oh, and I go for another BPP tomorrow...
Answer: I really wanted a chicken sandwich from Jack in the Box (only $1!!), and I'm eating it now
Updates: none today, been going to school this week and being active. I'm still checking in here because if my u/s tomorrow shows that my activity is a bad thing, I might be put back on bed rest. I'm still on probation. *Thanks Lesley!