Recent Happenings

As of Friday my Dr has put me on 'bed rest'. Well, she didn't say 'bed rest' but she did say, "sitting, laying and short periods of standing. No dishes, no laundry, no grocery shopping and no picking up kids" I'm not sure if you can interpret that differently than 'bed rest'.

The story: Friday afternoon during our regular scheduled sonogram there were some concerning things about Amelia Bedelia that had them doing extra scans and tests. She is measuring 3 lbs 6 oz where as Beatrix is 4 lbs 7 oz. It turns out that everything is ok but they want to bump up my full sonograms to every 2 weeks instead of every 3.

After the sono I had my stress test, during which I have three monitors on my belly: one heart monitor for Amelia Bedelia, one for Beatrix and a contraction monitor. They found that I was having regular contracts (which I could not feel) so they sent me to Labor and Delivery for more monitoring and to see if I was dialated. There was no surprise when they found that I was at a 1. They hooked me up to the monitors and stuck me with an IV. After several hours the contractions finally stopped (after a muscle relaxer was administered) and sent us home.

There were lots of people that came to our aid in our child care needs and we are grateful for them all. We are also grateful that our children did so well during the shuffling around.

Thankfully Jason is still out of school for 2 more weeks so he is able to stay home and help out with everything. 2 more weeks - that's all that is left until they will let me go into labor. So we will sit (or lay, or stand for short periods) and wait...for 2 weeks.